Today, on 14 May Ufa hosted the magnificent event devoted to the special date - 50 days to the VI CIOFF® World Folkloriada.
The celebrating began with the air show, attended by citizens of Ufa and the city’s guests. 3 planes above the city did their performance, which was followed up by the parachute show, in which the jumpers landed on the celebration venue near the art-object to the upcoming festival waving flags of Russia, Bashkortostan and the Folkloriada.
The stage welcomed the honored guests that assembled the symbol of the folkloriada – the Russian doll, dressed in the ethnic Bashkir attire, which is traditionally divided into several dolls.
The Deputy Minister of culture of Russia Olga Yarilova attended the ceremony as well as the Head of Bashkortostan Radiy Khabirov, CIOFF®-International President Philippe Beaussant, the Folkloriada Committee chairman and the vice-president of CIOFF® Alejandro Camacho, the Minister of culture of Bashkortostan Amina Shafikova.
The event rounded up with the marvelous musical live performances by the Ambassador of the VI CIOFF® World Folkloriada and the Honored Artist of Russia and the creative director of the Russian Song Theatre Nadezhda Babkina, the Miras Folk Ensemble of Song and Dance, Uzoritsa Group, Argymak and the finalists of the All-Russian Youth Festival Yashlek Show-2020, as well as the soloists of the Kh. Akhmetov’s Bashkir State Philharmonic .