During the month, an exhibition of children's artwork “The Light of Hope” organized by the International Sponsored Foundation Vladimir Spivakov, with the assistance of the Mano School “Manezh” and the Sergei Andriaka School of Watercolor, was held in the Moscow Gostiny Dvor.

The exhibition featured artwork from talented children from different cities of Russia - Moscow and the Moscow Region, St. Petersburg, the Republics of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan, the cities of the Urals, Siberia, and Transcaucasia.

It is important to note that at this exhibition more than 20 works of young artists - participants of projects of the Vladimir Spivakov Charitable Foundation in the Republic of Bashkortostan from 12 cities and districts of the republic were presented: Voronova Polina, Rizvanova Rita, Yunusova Amina, Gerasichkina Sofia, Nurmuhamedova Milena, Dumayskaya Alsu, Lisitskaya Vika, Bogdanova Regina, Filatova Karina, Sharipova Karina, Karnaukhova Anastasia, Budakova Daria, Zlobin Vadim, Kuznetsova Elena, Nugumanova Azalia.

One of the main decorations of the exhibition was the consolidated work of the participants of the project “Academy of Vladimir Spivakov Foundation in the Republic of Bashkortostan”, which was held in Ufa in early April 2018. The work of 300 * 200 cm led by a mentor - a member of the Union of Artists of Russia and the Republic of Bashkortostan, Rushaniya Badretdinova, employed 23 young artists: Valerot Sirotkina, Regina Yakshibaeva, Yulia Shalneva, Anastasia Lysova, Victoria Ptakhina, Irina Mazitova, Tatlybaeva Dana, Nikita Sueyyarava-Seva-Seva. Dina, Liana Zainetdinova, Anastasia Okhrimenko, Angela Samigullina, Diana Mokropolova, Denis Shadrin, Elizaveta Kushnerova, Serebrennikova Anastasia, Alina Nizamova, Amalia Karipova, Yevgeny Markov, Tagir Avzalov, Anastasia Gerastimov. Ngazova, Alina Imaeva.