In Birsk grand gala concert of "Chreschenskiye morozy" festival has ended.During three days amateur artists of Bashkortostan and the neighboring regions showed their skills. Recall, the contestants competed in three categories: "pop song", "pop music" and "pop dance".This year the competition was attended by 88 participants. Thee are all performers and bands from 6 cities and 21 districts of the republic, as well as contestants from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev and Kogalym.At the closing ceremony of the Open XXIII of the Republican contest-festival, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Republic of Bashkortostan Ranis Altynbaev read a welcome address on behalf of the Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Bashkortostan Rustem Mardanov. A welcoming speech to the participants, organizers and guests addressed the head of the district administration Birsk Alexander Khoroshilov.Gala concert took place in the same breath - it was interesting and consistently. For easy beauty of dance movements, touching voice, a twinkle of costumes viewed a lot of work teachers that their daily, painstaking work to hone skills of their charges."The highlight of" Gala concert performances have become the owners of the Grand Prix last year - Rinat Salihyanov (2015) and Anna Chistyakova (2016).As a result of the work of the jury Grand Prix of the festival won the 20-year-old Ekaterina Taran from Moskow, the group «Inkis» of Ufa and dance group "Rainbow" from Birsk. The winners were awarded with diplomas, received a commemorative statuette and cash prizes. Winners of I degree in the category "Pop Song" became Nailya Girfanova (Sterlitamak), Vladimir Vysotsky, from Ufa. In the nomination "Variety dance" were the first team of the modern folk and street choreography "Street life" (Sterlitamak). There were an equal team «The Times» (Ufa) in the category "Pop Music". Just it was determined winners of II-III degree, diploma, special prize of the Republican Centre of Folk Art and Radio "FM Sputnik".

Festival organizers are the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bashkortostan, the Republican center of folk art, the administration of the municipal district of the Republic of Bashkortostan Birsk area.