Very often the day of a certain city passes according to the usual scenario for everyone. But this situation can be changed. Very often, local authorities offer residents to independently think over the celebration program in which they would be happy to take part. So what could be the events for City Day?

Memory

It is very important to note those people who at one time made a lot of efforts for its development in any industry. So, you need to put flowers at the foot of all the monuments (it's not for nothing that they were erected!), On the main square, tell about those people who upset the city and helped its prosperity. We must also not forget about those people who are trying to make their native streets, houses or municipal buildings better now.

Concert

The most, perhaps, uninteresting, but very important part of the event on City Day is over, now you can move on to the fun. So, important on this day are the performances of all local groups that dance, sing, play in the theater, etc. They must show their best performances, show off their achievements over the past year.

Sport

What other events can there be for City Day? You can also arrange It can be football (teams of children and adults will compete), various races. You can also arrange a marathon for everyone, in which people of different age groups can participate. For old people, you can organize a chess tournament or a domino tournament - their favorite entertainment.

Fair

The next City Day events are fun fairs. Here you can already come up with anything. So, all factories that are on the territory of the city or region can represent and at the same time sell their products, the needlewomen of the city can boast of their work. It is good to arrange auctions or fun sales various products... All this can be accompanied by theatrical performances.

Master classes

On the City Day, it can also include various master classes by experienced specialists. So, women can show how to embroider, knit or make homemade baked goods, men can give master classes on forging metals, wood carving. There are many options, you just need to bring together masters of various industries.

Charity

It's also a good idea to do charity on City Day. It can be either a special promotion or just collecting money in special boxes, for example, for a local orphanage or nursing homes.

For children

City activities should also include So, it's good to make free carousels in a local park on this day, dress up a few people with clowns or funny cartoon characters so that they can entertain children passing by on the street. It is also good to arrange a free watching of a cartoon for children in a local cinema.

End of the day

And at the end of the celebration, the city authorities can organize a concert where they invite "stars" of different sizes - both local and folk artists. You can make a disco for young people and finish everything with a beautiful bright fireworks.

Course work

Executor:

Michurina Ksenia,

student FS-45, full-time department

Scientific adviser: Parshin Yu.M.,

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor

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Introduction

Chapter 1. Holiday as a cultural phenomenon. general characteristics

1.1 Emotional and psychological content of the holiday phenomenon

Chapter 2. Analysis and forecasting of trends in the development of the holiday calendar

2.1 Features of holding holidays in a modern city

2.3 Analysis of the components of the festive complex on the example of the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the city of Samara

Conclusion

Bibliography

Introduction

Holidays are an important element of modern culture. Culture is the national memory of the people, what distinguishes a given nation from others, keeps a person from depersonalization, allows him to feel the connection between times and generations, to receive spiritual support and life support. Holidays perform consolidating and educational functions. This also applies to city holidays.

The emergence of the city as a center of industry and trade, the focus of cultural and educational institutions entailed the formation of new realities: a special urban life, the mentality of the population; and also - a special festive culture, the manifestations of which often came into conflict with the traditional rural festivity.

The city as a set of heterogeneous elements (different social groups, nationalities, forms of activity) over time forms a palette of city holidays, which gradually form into a special system that makes up holiday calendar cities. The existing festive calendar is becoming a kind of folk memory and festive chronicle of the city. Moreover, here an important role is played by local thematic or "specific" holidays, based on the events of the history of this particular city and reflecting precisely its specifics.

Relevance of the topic due, firstly, to the fact that in conditions of erosion of traditions, it is very important to maintain a sense of national self-awareness among the population, an understanding of belonging to a small homeland, and secondly, to the need to consolidate the urban population, heterogeneous in social and national relations, on the basis of common holiday traditions.

Thirdly, because the festive culture tends to develop, people's perception of the holiday changes, interest in theatrical performance increases, the importance of being an accomplice in a mass action.

Problem is that in last years, especially among young people, interest in various forms and genres of festive activities has noticeably increased. Return to folk art- an objective and natural process is more important than ever today due to its uniting and accumulating power, capable of ensuring the preservation of the people as a nation. By the beginning of the 21st century, the festive culture had stratified and sharply differentiated. There has been a clear change in value orientations. The modern holiday calendar is very chaotic. It is difficult to notice a harmonious system in it, and most importantly, there are no tendencies leading to the ordering of public leisure in various systems of holidays, bringing rhythm to the social space of significant events. The destruction of the system of holiday traditions leads to a state of hopelessness, a break in continuity and a weakening of cultural ties between generations, the destruction of the unity of the socio-cultural space, the unclear status of religious and festive culture, the lack of coordination of new public holidays, an increase in the number of various kinds of local "introduced" holidays.

Object study is the festive culture of modern society.

Thing- study of the features of the City Day holiday as a modern holiday complex

Objective- by considering the history of the City Day celebration, characterize the modern level of festive culture in Samara

In connection with the consideration of this topic, a number of tasks come to light:

1. Expand the content of the concept of "holiday", showing its functions and structure.

2. Describe the features of city holidays, highlighting the signs that distinguish them from traditional festive culture.

3. Analyze the formation of local themed holidays on the example of the day of the city, showing their meaning.

4. Using the example of the history of celebrating the City Day in Samara, show the formation of the event basis of city holidays.

5. Consider the development of festive traditions of the city day. Analysis

6. Practical analysis of the components of the festive complex on the example of the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the city of Samara

Chapter 1. Holiday as a cultural phenomenon. general characteristics

1.1 Emotional and psychological content of the holiday phenomenon

The term "holiday" and its equivalents in other languages ​​belongs to the vocabulary of everyday speech and is often used. For example, you can refer to the fact that the French equivalent of this term - the word "fete" belongs to the thousand most frequently used French words, the same frequency of use is the word "fiesta", which means a holiday in Spanish. A modern Polish dictionary defines a holiday ("swieto") as "a day, usually free from work, solemnly celebrated due to religious or state considerations." Linde's dictionary explains the holiday as "a day that is solemnly celebrated, celebrated, especially in the memory of a saint."

In Russian, the term "holiday" comes from the adjective "idle", meaning "not busy", "idle time" - the period when you do not need to work, when you can be idle (when it comes to time). In the new edition of the "Great Soviet Encyclopedia" the meaning of the word "holiday" is revealed in the article - " holidays"As follows:" Days dedicated to outstanding events or traditional dates (2. P. 324).

So, there are a number of definitions of the concept of "holiday". Therefore, we will focus on a generalized characteristic that implies two approaches to the definition of the holiday phenomenon:

1. The holiday is viewed from the sacred (mystical) positions as a special time, during which the boundaries between the world of the living and the dead are violated, between the historical time and - the time "this", mythical.

2. The holiday is considered as a time period that highlights, marks the most significant events in the life of the state, people, social group (3, p. 31).

Thus, two main approaches to the definition of the term "holiday" have been identified, of course, there are much more of them, but the above are of the greatest importance for us. In our work, let us make a reservation, we will use the working definition of a "holiday" - an event set in a time space, with social functions and a regulated structure. We, using the term "holiday" in our work, are based on the second, secular or etiquette meaning of this concept.

Even a brief analysis of the origin and meaning of the term "holiday" in several languages ​​that occupy a prominent place in the history of European culture, reveals in it elements that are important for the researcher. The holiday is semantically related to free time, with a specific ritual, time of idleness, dance, reception, fun and feasting. It is associated with religious cult and important dates in the history of the people and the state, with labor law and organization of production, with the traditions of social movements, with their aspirations, slogans, celebrations and demonstrations on certain days.

According to Archpriest Dimitri Smirnov (ROC MP): "A secular holiday is a day of remembrance of a saint, celebrated at the state level." Due to the many reforms that the Soviet regime has carried out over the years of its existence, including because of the language reform, the meaning of the word "secular" has been distorted in our minds. The holiday as such demanded different things at different times, but several parameters remain in common: respect for the holiday itself (“the holiday is holy - all things are asleep” - on holidays it was impossible to work), the transformation of everything around - unusual outfits of the streets and residents were required; respect friend to a holiday to a friend was a peaceful moment, especially a secular one: on holidays they often pardoned, issued amnesties to criminals, and so on (4, p. 69) ..

The holiday allows people to better understand the meaning of life, therefore, we are not talking about the values ​​of the holiday - they are always secondary, transitory, but about the values ​​that permeate all life, which in usual time by necessity they are, as it were, hidden from the majority of people and which at a special time, during the period of the holiday, always manifest themselves, are confirmed and actualized. All the past experience of the history of human culture confirms that the need for a holiday in the life of society is universal and constant, with all the variability of the forms of celebration. In order to penetrate into the essence of the performing arts, it is necessary not only to analyze them as a phenomenon of today's reality, but also to know the stages of formation and development. different types spectacles (3.P. 88).

City Day is a holiday of cities (Russia and the former USSR), usually timed to coincide with weekends (Sundays).

1.2 Components of the holiday complex

The study of holiday traditions has shown that a holiday as a complex phenomenon has a certain composition, or a complex, the identification of which reveals the nature and degree of the existence of the holiday. The composition of a holiday, or a festive complex, means the various components presented in it, carrying a certain semantic load and functioning at the level of being. Consideration of the festive complex, ultimately, reveals the degree of its tradition.

The isolation of the components of the holiday does not mean at all that it is mechanically divided. All of its parts are closely related to each other and are interpenetrating. The composition of this or that holiday, its festive complex can be more or less complete, which is primarily due to the peculiarities of its formation. In general, the totality of the components that make up the holiday complex characterizes the holiday as a cultural and everyday phenomenon.

On various holidays that exist today, we consider it possible, following E.A. Keller distinguish three main components: solemn and official and mass entertainment, related to public life, and household, inherent in the home sphere (5, pp. 60-61).

In modern public holidays, to which this chapter is devoted, the solemn component directly expresses the ideological foundations of the holiday and serves to strengthen them. Its arena is always public places (palaces of culture, clubs, theaters, parks, stadiums, etc.). The forms of manifestation are specific and well-established. For Soviet holidays, for example, meetings, rallies, demonstrations are characteristic. By their origin, they are associated with the international labor movement and signify a certain level of formation of revolutionary festivals.

The forms of the mass entertainment component are very diverse and have different origins. This festive part is perhaps the most mobile, as it is subject to a constant spontaneous and purposeful search for forms, which is caused by the desire to make festive leisure the most interesting and in line with the spirit of the time. (6, p. 82).

The household part of the holiday, in contrast to the first two, takes place in the sphere of family life, and its arena is, respectively, the house and the family. The forms of this component of the holiday, in comparison with others, took shape over a long time. They are stable and, to the greatest extent, possess ethnic specificity, which is manifested in such elements of material and spiritual culture as festive food, feast, visiting, etc. Despite a certain conservatism of the household component, it is also subject to changes (6, p. 83) ...

Public holidays form a separate, specific sphere of festive life. Its features are associated primarily with the nature of public holidays as an ideological phenomenon. The ideological orientation underlying this group of holidays is at the same time the driving force behind their development.

Ritual and play elements of the old calendar holidays perform in a traditional or transformed form in new seasonal festivals, specially created, designed by the forces of mainly professional professionals on a traditional basis. The connection with the archaic and later holiday tradition and the forms of connection are very different. This is largely due to the peculiarities of the formation of such modern celebrations, aimed at preserving the national flavor.

One of the components of the cultural space is the festive space. The festive space as a phenomenon of festive culture is of particular interest to us. This is a multifactorial and multidimensional system, a specific phenomenon of festive culture, which determines a special form of social behavior. The festive space is a transformed space, it is conditioned by the meaning of the holiday and is recognizable by the participants of festive actions (3, p. 87). Salient features festive space can be called a clear time frame. It is temporary in relation to the everyday, everyday space; its artificiality is fraught with play, decorativeness, sometimes even feigned aesthetics.

The festive space is a multifactorial and multidimensional system, a specific phenomenon of festive urban culture that determines a special form of social behavior. The archetype of the festive space is associated with certain constants that transform it and give it a festive meaning. These constants are: compositional center, language, tempo-rhythm, color, sound, type of movement.

The characteristic features of the festive space are the time frames calculated for the festive time. This space is temporary in relation to the everyday, everyday space; it is distinguished by artificiality in relation to everyday space, it is "composed", created, stylized, specially decorated, dressed up, strives for "beauty".

The festive space is endowed with a certain meaning, decorativeness and aesthetic function. The entire palette of the festive space (festive decorations, special temporary buildings, symbolic attributes, etc.) "works" for the festive atmosphere and corresponds to the type of holiday. Each type of holiday has its own special rules, structure, aesthetics, associated with space. In the technological sense, the functionality of the festive space is determined by the place of action, determines the role functions of the participants in the holiday, and depends on the stylistic features of the everyday space (5, p. 39). Games and play practice are associated with the phenomenon of holidays.

As for the holidays in the secular sense, which is inherent in modern cultures, they are characterized not only by solemnity, a special emotional uplift, but also by the fact that they are a time of active leisure, entertainment, and fun. The ritual component is reduced to a minimum and is subordinated to mass entertainment events, festivities and games (11, p. 49).

And, in conclusion, if we consider the festive culture as a set of "... communications unfolding in the festive space and time", then, according to the Polish researcher K. Zhigulsky, the following components can be distinguished (12, p. 112).

1. Spatio-temporal, including festive space and time.

2. Structural and content component, including - decorations, actions (animation events), costumes of participants, festive meals, a system of gifts.

3. Ideological component: the holiday should be based on a certain ideologeme, event. It should be associated with real (even if distorted in the minds of descendants) or sacred events that have a religious and mythological origin. In this case, the event itself should be perceived as a significant and positive symbol (12, p. 112).

A similar, albeit more detailed, description of festive actions is offered by the cultural scientist I.I. Shangin (13, p. 111), highlighting the following components: a) festive time, b) festive space, c) subject-personal (participants in the action), d) ritual, e) ideological

1.3 Drama and directing of mass celebrations

A mass holiday is an unusual phenomenon, synthesizing reality and art, artistically decorating one or another real life event.

Mass holidays can be attributed to dual phenomena that preserve the original syncretism of artistic and utilitarian principles. At the same time, obviously, one should not underestimate the fact that a holiday is a complex phenomenon and some of its constituent parts, for example, a mass theatrical performance, are independent artistic values.

The art of a mass celebration, performance, spectacle is the art of lofty ideas, purposefulness and civic pathos, which at the same time requires vivid imagery, associativity, an original, bold creative concept, which is the first guarantee of the viewer's success and interest.

Means of ideological and emotional impact of a mass holiday:

A living word that creates images that can directly embody and convey actions, feelings, moods, people's experiences. There is a living word that creates an atmosphere of communication between the stage and any audience. The poetic word is also an effective tool for the screenwriter and director.

Musical drama of the script, which is based on the synthesis of finished musical works belonging to different composers.

Feature and documentary films. It is especially successfully used in the prologue, it helps, as it were, to transfer the participants to the era of certain historical events.

Choreography and sports. The synthesis of sports, choreography and pantomime is an extremely powerful and vivid expressive means in the palette of a scriptwriter and director of a mass celebration.

Visual means, the role of visual solutions, sound and light is great, serving as one of the most important components of the theatrical action.

Chapter 2. Analysis and forecasting of trends in the development of the holiday calendar

1.3 Features of holding holidays in a modern city

Thus, a traditional, folk holiday is semantically connected with free time, time of idleness, rest, and with joy, fun, with a certain ritual, dance, reception, feast, consumption, waste. It is pertinent to note that festive traditions, their composition, ideological orientation, the nature of existence, ways of conducting in general reflect the level of development of the material and spiritual culture of the people and at the same time contain a rich and varied historical experience accumulated over many centuries of their existence.

The holiday is a necessary condition for social life, it exists in all societies since ancient times, "the festival (any) is an important primary form of human culture."

City Day is the most massive holiday, the largest in terms of preparation, because it affects all residents of each city. On this day, festive events are held - performances by city leaders, parades, processions, fairs, festive concerts. City day usually ends with fireworks. Typically, the celebration begins on the Saturday preceding Sunday (that is, two days: Saturday and Sunday).

The city as a set of heterogeneous elements has entailed a varied palette of city holidays, which gradually took shape in a special system that makes up the city's festive calendar. It has become a kind of folk memory, a festive chronicle of the city. The city holiday calendar is based on the traditional calendar, which is based on folk and religious holidays. The traditional holiday calendar is the result of a long cultural process, its structure and form are constantly evolving and improving.

Crowded festivities and holidays have always been part of city life, but for a long time they completely copied the peasant tradition: they were arranged on the same calendar dates and in the same forms (mummers at Christmas time, horseback riding and from the icy mountains on Shrovetide, swings for Easter , curling wreaths and round dances "in nature" for the trinity, etc.). The festivities themselves were popularly called “under the mountains” or “under the swing”.

Urban culture (meaning big cities) turned a folk holiday into a folk festival, in which the meaning of the main elements changed: instead of a ritual, there was a game, instead of a local tradition, a mass averaged culture, and the folklore interpretation of the holiday was replaced by the need for universal fun, festive unity and switching from everyday life to holidays. Therefore, the festivities are close to the open-air fair festivities - the product of the city (16: 97). The festivities, in their essence, cannot provide a single festive collective with the same traditions and attitudes, which is present in a classic folk festival.

Folk holiday does not imply outside observers, spectators, here each participant is the creator of the holiday, who knows and actively implements folk traditions. Walking naturally includes outside observers and people who first got into such an atmosphere. All these people seem to be drawn into the festivities, absorbing them and not emphasizing their strangeness (16: 98). The national holiday is not directed, the director is tradition. There are certain ways of amusement in the festivities, therefore attractions, the display of all sorts of outlandish things and other spectacles are its obligatory elements.

Walking involves a scriptwriter and a director, that is, special people who provide the action. In a rural holiday, as in a city, there were people who, for example, built ice mountains, but they were obligatory participants in the holiday; in the village there were no those who financed the holiday, specially gave money (treasury, merchants, etc.). To arrange booths and fairground buildings in the city, there were special artels of carpenters, painters, etc., special professional entertainers worked, professional police officers watched over the observance of order, individual people provided drinking and food establishments and much more (16: 99).

The above is the specifics of organizing and holding festive events in modern cities. Places and times of the festive events are regulated by regulatory documents, and the preparation and conduct of events is carried out by professionally trained specialists.

Summarizing what has been said, it can be noted that within the framework of the traditional folk (ethnic) culture of any people, traditions of leisure and holidays have developed. Reflecting the specifics of the historical development of a particular people, they formed complex systems that included customs and rituals, games and competitions, fortune telling, various forms of folklore, etc. Most often, speaking about the traditional origins of animation, it should be recognized that we are talking about the realities of spiritual culture. All types of animation activities, which will be discussed below, are associated with traditional culture, the realities of which are used in modern practice of organizing leisure.

2.2 History of the celebration of the City Day in Samara

The first mention of Samara dates back to 1367, it is a fact. Even then, on Italian maps, the city of Samar was marked on the site of modern Samara, by the way, with the mark "a particularly robbery place" ... And the fact that Samara celebrates City Day in May is largely an accident. This was the initiative of several officials of the Kuibyshev City Executive Committee, who in 1986 decided that the proletarian month of May was suitable for the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the city. Historians know that before the revolution, City Day in Samara was celebrated on August 29, that is, September 11 in a new style. This was the case from 1886 to 1917.

by order of Fyodor Ivanovich in 1584, it was decided to establish the Samara fortress (renamed the city in 1689). three hundredth anniversary of the Decree of Fyodor Ioannovich ( direct relative the Romanov dynasty) in 1886. At the same time, it is true, two centuries of the Samara pre-Roman history were left out of brackets - but how can there be history in Wild Field, which has not yet become part of Russia? Alabin's undoubted merit was that before him no one thought at all about how many - 200, 300, 400, 500 years old Samara, not to mention having its own city historical calendar and celebrating its dates. Alabin carried out a colossal propaganda campaign on the occasion of the revealed anniversary, contributing to the growth of interest in the past of Samara.

He also achieved political goals - the attention of Emperor Alexander III, who graciously issued a special permission to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the city in 1886.

Choking on loyal feelings, the Samara City Duma, headed by Alabin, went further, and in order to most likely connect the history of the city with the ruling dynasty, it decided “to establish for this celebration such a day that for some reason would be especially memorable and kind to the city of Samara,” namely August 29 is the day of the visit to the city by Alexander II, who laid Cathedral, and the day of the namesake of Alexander III himself. To which they also received the royal permission. The celebrations on the occasion of the unexpectedly discovered anniversary went to glory, becoming one of the most noticeable events in the pre-revolutionary history of the city: there were eminent delegations, and fireworks and a telegram to His Imperial Majesty, and a response from His Imperial Majesty, and a response to an answer, and a response to a response to the answer ("Thanks"), etc. - and at the head of all this, all in a white uniform, is the actual state councilor P.V. Alabin.

But having created this system of historical coordinates, Alabin not only gave his contemporaries a celebration of the 300th anniversary (and we are 400th anniversary) of the city, having done all those wonderful things that are mentioned above, but also “closed” the theme of Samara of the 14-15th century for a long time, shortening the history cities for at least two centuries. Until 1986, the City Day was celebrated in the fall, and after 1986, from the 400th anniversary of Samara, this holiday began to be celebrated in May.

In 1986, the city of Kuibyshev celebrated its 400th anniversary. This date is also significant because for the first time this year, residents of Kuibyshev celebrated the City Day. Colleagues from the organizational department came to Zolotarev and offered to arrange a holiday. The first secretary of the city committee supported the initiative. The celebration took place. On the Volga there was a water show dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the city. Many people still remember this grandiose holiday. The entire Volzhsky Prospect was packed with people, even

there was no room on the rooftops. For the first time on the Volga, fireworks were organized. In the same year, the Grushinsky festival experienced a rebirth. The week of the author's song on the banks of the Volga was an invaluable gift to the people of Kuibyshev for the anniversary of their native city.

But we will analyze the last 3 years of the celebration of the city day.

City Day is a holiday of cities in Russia and the CIS countries. City Day is usually held on weekends. If a city day falls on a weekday, then it is often celebrated on the coming weekend. City Day is the largest holiday in any city. Many cities hold their City Days on public or professional holidays. For others, this day coincides with the date of liberation from the Nazi invaders during the Second World War. Finally, for some cities, the city day is the day of foundation or the day of obtaining the status of the city.

In Samara, the City Day is held on the last Sunday of May. Various events are held dedicated to this event. These can be performances by city authorities, holiday parades and processions. Most often, the opening of new monuments, the completion of the repair of old or the construction of new objects are timed to coincide with the day of the city. On this day, fairs and festive concerts are held with the participation of pop stars. In the evening on the day of the city, volleys of festive fireworks sound.

In 2009, the city of Samara celebrated 423 years. Traditional holiday, dedicated to the birthday, the townspeople celebrated at the very end of May - on the 30th. This year, the Samara administration has prepared a special program, culminating in a laser show of an unprecedented scale. City festivities began on the Krasnoarmeysky Spusk with a costume ball called "Russia begins with Pushkin and Gogol." All residents of Samara were taught ancient classical dances - mazurka, polonaise, minuet, krakovyaka, children read poems by famous Russian poets and got acquainted with the history of art in Russia and in Samara in particular, and adults could try on the image of a city dweller of the past, and even the one before last century.

Special attention in the 2009 City Day celebration program was given to children. Football holiday, launch balloons, sports competitions with valuable prizes and the opportunity to ride the attractions for free - the city administration made sure that the little townspeople remember this day for a long time. Adults were also not deprived of attention - concerts of famous Samara artists and guest stars, open summer cafes - everything guaranteed wonderful festive mood for all day. Thoughtful entertainment for youth and adults, it was divided into 5 sites, each of which found its own viewer. The most popular among the young residents of Samara was a rock concert with the participation of young stars.

However, the main surprise awaited the townspeople in the evening. The laser-fountain-pyrotechnic show was held in Samara for the first time. To ensure that no one missed anything, a large LED screen was installed near each site, broadcasting everything that was happening online.

2010 concerts will be held at several venues - a performance by a brass band, children's groups, representatives of the city's creative intelligentsia, a gala concert will be held in the evening at the Ladya, followed by fireworks at 23:00.

The highlight of the program will be an innovation that has never been held in Samara before - a retrospective will appear in the morning program of the holiday. “Since this is a purely urban holiday, we must show the townspeople what the city has for its soul. Therefore, columns of workers - representatives of all nine districts of the city and representatives of large municipal enterprises - such as MP "Samara Metro", MP "Samaravodokanal" will march along Kuibyshev Square. On Krasnoarmeysky Spusk 5 thematic sites will be organized: "Samara children are the best in the world", "Friendship of peoples Samara is strong", "Love to be strong sport", "Create, invent, try" preschoolers and their parents.

Traditionally, a youth audience will gather in front of the CSK VVS pool. This year the site will have a sports orientation: streetball tournaments will be held here.

On Mayakovsky Spusk, from 11:00 to 15:00, a concert program with a performance by the municipal children's theater "Zadumka" will take place, and from 12:00 to 19:00 there will be an action "Change a cigarette for candy", as well as a sports competition in arm wrestling.

From 11:00 to 21:00 on the Chkalovsky descent, creative teams of the municipal houses of culture will perform. Here, for the first time, the youth audience can take part in the "Dance Fo Life" campaign aimed at preventing AIDS, as well as learn modern dance. At 18:00 a brass band and a combined ensemble of ballroom dancing will perform for the guests of the holiday. A children's party will take place at the playground near the Otdykh cafe.

On the 4th stage of the embankment (Ladya) this year the program of the best creative teams of the city will be presented. The festive event will end with fireworks at 22:30.

Holiday program 2011

On May 29, Samara celebrates its birthday. About what, where and when it will be possible to see. This year, the holiday will be opened with a solemn procession, with the participation of representatives of the City and District Administrations, as well as municipal enterprises. More than 12 thousand people in columns will march from the Sports Palace of the CSK VVS on the street. Molodogvardeyskaya to Kuibyshev Square. The spectacle will remind you of a May Day demonstration. Demonstrators will form in columns from 10.30 and will be on the square at 12.00. For those who cannot become a participant in the march, the GIS TV channel will broadcast the event live.

From 11.00 to 14.00 in the Strukovsky Garden for the seventeenth time the traditional journalistic festival "Press-2010" will be held, organized by the Samara regional organization of the Union of Journalists of Russia together with the Administration of the Samara city district.

From 11.00, the site will begin work on the Mayakovsky and Chkalovsky slopes. The collective of the municipal theater "Zadumka" will perform on Mayakovsky Spusk, and a children's playground will start working on Chkalovsky.

The entire embankment will be open from 12.00. Samartsev will have a very busy program. 5 thematic sites will be organized on Krasnoarmeysky Spusk.
One of them is the concert and creative platform "Samara children are the best in the world." The residents will be presented with a gala concert with the participation of laureates of city competitions dedicated to the anniversary of the Victory. Performances of creative teams of children and teachers will alternate with classes in a ballroom dance school. Everyone who comes to the holiday will be able to learn how to dance the polonaise, krakowiak and other dances.

On the same site, there will be an exhibition of children's and teachers' arts and crafts, fine art and photography, "I love you, my Samara."

18 young artists in the open air will paint pictures dedicated to the heroic deeds of their fellow countrymen in the Great Patriotic War.

There will also be a competition among nature connoisseurs of the native land of nature conservation topics.

The platform "Friendship of the peoples of Samara is strong", which will host performances by national groups of the city, pupils and teachers of national cultural centers and national Sunday schools cities. The Sloboda of Folk Crafts Workshops will also work here.

"Sport to love to be strong" site. Here will take place a family sports and game relay race "Dad, Mom and I - Glorious Samara Family", as well as a children's city chess tournament. Also, viewers will be able to watch demonstration performances of the Youth Sports School - in aerobics, sport dancing, hand-to-hand combat, sports acrobatics, as well as the winners of the city break dance competitions will demonstrate their skills.

Playground for children's technical creativity "Create, invent, try". On it, young modelers will show their radio-controlled and track cars and, for the first time, throwing gliders.

This year, for the first time, the Playground for the "Funny Kids" for preschoolers and their parents will start working. Here kids will demonstrate their talents at the gala concert of kindergarten pupils in Samara.

I remember the first time I visited the City Day. It was in the early 1980s in the city of Sverdlovsk (then still Sverdlovsk!). I went there to see my friends. I arrived in mid-August, and just got to the City Day celebration.

The City Day in Sverdlovsk was a "feature" of the local city and regional authorities, which was then headed by Boris Yeltsin. My friends from Sverdlovsk were proud that there was no such holiday in Moscow itself at that time. They were also proud of Yeltsin, because, unlike many "voiceless" first secretaries of the Russian regional committees, who stood at attention in front of the capital, he stubbornly "pulled the blanket over himself" and at the very least provided food for the region entrusted to him. That year, Yeltsin was credited with finally canceling milk coupons in Sverdlovsk. However, this did not add milk. Those who wanted to get hold of them went to the dairy shops early in the morning. But suddenly they began to "throw out" chickens for sale from some local poultry plant, the construction of which, in spite of the center, with regional funds, the townspeople also attributed to "their" Yeltsin.

During the City Day, food abundance was shown to the people in the central square, where those who were lucky were able to buy cottage cheese, sour cream and sausages. And chickens, of course. So with string bags at the ready, my friends and I visited several venues where they danced and sang, where girls 'voices rang and girls' knees shone. The culmination of the cultural celebration was the square in front of the famous Polytechnic Institute, where the creators of amateur songs and even local rockers performed! No, my friends were right, this was not the case in Moscow itself at that time! In Moscow, the first City Day took place only in 1987, at a time when the Moscow City Committee was headed by the same Boris Yeltsin. But that was a different time and almost a different country.

The City Days had never been celebrated on a large scale before. V Soviet time cities were generally not encouraged to stick out too much with their "specialness". So new holiday was regarded as a symbol of novelty, as a symbol of change, and - I'm not afraid to recall these words - restructuring and acceleration. In 1986 it was made a city holiday in Leningrad and Voronezh, in 1987 - in Novosibirsk, Zhdanov and Uglich. Further, the process, as M.S. Gorbachev said, began. Every self-respecting city has its own local holiday, City Day.

This holiday was most often timed to coincide with the foundation day of the settlement. But sometimes the Russian weather protested. The founding date of the same Yekaterinburg is November 18. Colds and gray skies, crying now with rain, now with snow, do not contribute to festivities and stadiums. Therefore, in Eburg (as the local youth now call their city for brevity), the City Day was postponed to warm August.

As a matter of fact, the Days of the City were not celebrated not only in Soviet times, but also in pre-revolutionary times. On the whole territory of the empire there were only two cities "with faces", Moscow and St. Petersburg. Everything else is a provincial or district town N. Even such large centers as Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan, Odessa, Kiev, Tiflis and Warsaw passed through this faceless category.

Great (and small) Russian literature is a witness to this. The hero's place of residence in Moscow or St. Petersburg was described in great detail and in detail: in Kolomna, on Peski, in Maryina Roshcha, on Arbat in Krivokolenny lane ... In the provinces, the author did not report any details that were dear to his heart. Well, yes, there is a beautiful place in Simbirsk, Venets, but who has heard about this urban area besides the people of Simbirsk themselves?

With the exception of capitals, the empire did not need unique cities and towns. People living in these countless cities N should have felt themselves not residents of a city or region, but subjects of one state. Under Soviet rule, the general course did not change. Moscow was the symbol of the whole country, Leningrad was the cradle of the revolution, and Uryupinsk was destined to get into jokes precisely because they did not hear about Marx, or Lenin, or even Stalin there.

The course changed slightly in the 1960s. Local lore began to be developed and encouraged, and love for small homeland to nurture. Then it suddenly became fashionable that all cities, including regional centers, received coats of arms. Moreover, as a rule, only a few dared to restore the old, pre-revolutionary coats of arms. And some cities built during the Soviet era did not have those at all.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, not only the national, but also the regional movement began to revive. This was due, in particular, to the fact that the regions received more economic and financial independence. As a result, the process of branding the regions began. Each city and town got its own coat of arms, flag, museum, local history and local attractions. And Happy City too.

City Day, like any other celebration, should be held according to a competent script. This scenario, firstly, involves the creation of special festive spaces. Traffic is blocked on some streets and squares. Where cars used to move, you can take a leisurely stroll.

Secondly, an organized festive space is simultaneously becoming a trading platform. Everything can be sold, but it is desirable that local goods and products of local production be presented against the background of Chinese consumer goods. And yes, the marketplace will be very decorated with rides and fast food pavilions.

Every wedding should have its own general. The third important component of the City Day should be the official program. The presence of local authorities and local elite is mandatory. They lead the city in real life, they should be on the holiday too.

The fourth component of the City Day is a festive concert, where "stars" and "asterisks" must perform. Performances of folk groups can be a kind of "warming up" of the audience for the upcoming concert.

The general outline of the holiday should be diversified in accordance with what the city is used to praising itself with. It can be the memory of military victories, or the historical and economic glory of the city. There are cities - just ready-made symbols of interethnic - let's not say friendship - but a long successful life together. Kazan is an example of such a city, both Russian and Tatar.

Unfortunately, until now, such holidays as City Day remain too official. The organizers strive to minimize any kind of unforeseen amateur performance. Residents of the city are not participants in the holiday, but only spectators. Although the main purpose of this holiday is just a manifestation of local amateur performances, which pushes people towards each other, makes them feel like a single social organism, residents of the city whose holiday is celebrated.

In August and September 1947, American journalist John Steinbeck and war photographer Robert Capa visited Moscow and other cities of the Soviet Union. Their impressions gave birth to the book "Russian Diary", which became available in Russian only in 1990. The book has been republished this year. How did the journalists see Moscow in 1947? How was City Day celebrated at that time? When you read about the celebration of the 800th anniversary of Moscow, it is hard to believe that only two years have passed since the end of the war ...

Moscow was in a state of feverish activity. Numerous brigades hung giant posters and portraits of national heroes on buildings - they occupied entire acres. The bridges were lined with strings of electric bulbs. The Kremlin towers, walls and even the battlements of the walls were also strewn with light bulbs. Every public building was illuminated by spotlights.

Dance floors were built on all squares, and in some places there were small stalls, similar to fabulous Russian houses - here they sold sweets, ice cream and souvenirs. For this event, a commemorative medal was issued centrally on the last, and many wore it.

Delegations from different countries... Buses and trains were overloaded. The roads were filled with people traveling to the city, who carried with them not only things, but also food for several days. They starved so often that they tried not to take risks on their trips, so each took several loaves of bread with them.

Kumach, flags and paper flowers adorned every home. Each department building had its own panel. The metro administration put up a huge map of the Moscow metro, under which a small metro rode back and forth. Crowds of people gathered around each stand and stared at it not only during the day, but also at night.

Carriages and trucks loaded with food arrived in the city: cabbage, melons, tomatoes, cucumbers. These were gifts that collective farms sent to the city for its 800th anniversary.

In the evening on the eve of the City Day celebration we were invited to the Bolshoi Theater, but they didn’t say what would be there. By some happy coincidence, we could not go there, and later we learned that there were six hours of speeches, and no one could leave, because high officials were sitting in the government box. It was one of the happiest accidents in our life.

Restaurants and cafes were filled with people, and a few empty seats were reserved for delegates who came from different republics of the Soviet Union and from other countries, so we could not get anywhere. What can I say - that evening it was generally difficult to have dinner.

The city was simply packed with people; people walked slowly through the streets, stopped in one square to listen to music, and then slowly moved to another. They looked, then moved on to look at something else. The visiting provincials watched everything that happened with wide eyes. Some of them had never been to the capital before, and they had never seen such a richly illuminated city at all. They danced in the squares, but not often. Most people just walked around the festively decorated city.

The museums were so crowded that it was impossible to get there. The same thing happened in theaters. There was not a single building on which at least one very large portrait of Stalin did not hang. The second largest was the portrait of Molotov. There were also portraits of the leaders of the Union republics, heroes of the Soviet Union, but those were already smaller in size.

In addition to all the decorations for the city's anniversary, many vehicles were produced; large new trams and trackless trams appeared on the streets (the author means, of course, trolleybuses. - Ed. note). The ZiS Automobile Plant produced many excellent new cars, but almost all of them were used to serve large foreign delegations.

Although it was only September 6, it was getting very cold in Moscow. Our room was freezing, but they promised to turn on the heating not earlier than in a month. When we were awake, we had to walk around the number in our coats. Correspondents staying at the Metropol Hotel were unpacking their electric heaters, hidden for the summer.

On the day of the holiday, Capa ran through the streets with his cameras almost from dawn. He now had a Russian photographer with him, who could make it easier for him to move around the city and, if necessary, explain to the police that everything was in order. And on Red Square, a policeman was assigned to him - he helped him with filming and protected him from trouble. Capa was now able to photograph buildings, stands, crowds, faces, groups of people walking and was as happy as he can only be when he is working.

Small cafes were set up on the sidewalks of many streets. One of them was located directly opposite our hotel and consisted of two tables, covered with white tablecloths, a vase of flowers, a large samovar and a glass case containing small sandwiches (these were open sandwiches with cheese and sausage), jars of pickles, pears and apples. All this was offered for sale.

The day was clear and cold. Elephants from the circus marched through the streets, and clowns walked in front of them. There was no military parade that day, but a big performance was to take place at the Dynamo stadium. We went there in the afternoon.

The stadium did indeed host a mass demonstration of factory workers in bright costumes. They marched across the field, did gymnastic exercises, made up different figures. We saw running competitions for women and men, shot put and volleyball competitions, as well as perfectly trained horses that danced waltz and polka, bowed and did pirouettes.

There was some important government figure here, but whoever he was, we did not see him, because the government box was right on our side of the stadium. It was almost a record: during our entire stay in Russia, we did not see a single important person. Stalin was on the Black Sea and did not come to the celebration.

The performance at the stadium lasted all day. There were demonstrations of cyclists, and motorcycle races, and, finally, a number was shown, which obviously required a lot of preparation. A string of motorcycles rode through the stadium. More precisely, a motorcyclist sat on each motorcycle, and behind him stood a girl in a tight-fitting suit holding a huge red flag. When the motorcycle accelerated to full speed, a large flag fluttered beautifully. This cavalcade drove twice around the stadium, and the program ended.

In the evening we had dinner with the Aragon couple, who stayed at the National Hotel. They had a room with a balcony overlooking a huge square in front of the Kremlin. From here we watched fireworks, which went on almost continuously, and all evening we listened to artillery volleys.

The area under the balcony was packed with crowds. Probably, millions of people walked back and forth here, forming a whirlpool. In the center of the square there was a stage on which speeches were made, musical works were performed, danced and sang. The only place where we have seen such a crowd of people close up is Times Square on New Year's Eve.

Only late at night did we manage to break through the crowd and return to our hotel. And thousands of people all roamed the streets, all looked at the lights and electric panels.

We had very little time left, and there was still a lot to do. Moscow entered winter. Theaters were opened, ballet performances began, and stores began to sell thick, padded clothing and felt shoes, which are worn here in winter. Children in earflaps and thick coats with fur collars... At the American Embassy, ​​electricians were rapidly changing the wiring throughout the building. Last winter, the wiring burned out, and without the usual electric heaters, all the staff of the embassy had to work in a coat ...

Our life went in jerks. We rushed from one place to another, trying for several last days see as much as possible. We visited Moscow University, where the senior students turned out to be very similar to ours. They crowded in the corridors, laughed, rushed from audience to audience. They walked in pairs, boys and girls, as ours walk. During the war, the university was hit by bombs, but students rebuilt the building before it was over, so it did not close.

Ballet performances began, and we went to them almost every evening. It was the most wonderful ballet we have ever seen. The performance usually began at seven-thirty and lasted until early twelve. The troupes were huge. Of course, a commercial theater cannot afford to maintain such a ballet. The performance, rehearsals, set and orchestra need to be subsidized, without which the troupe cannot survive. It is simply impossible to recoup such magnificent performances by selling tickets only.

Moscow was still in a state of excitement and hectic activity - it was necessary to quickly remove all these huge portraits, flags and banners before the rains, otherwise paint will flow from them. All this will be needed again when celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the revolution.

Yes, this is a significant year for Moscow, a year of great holidays. By the way, they left the light bulbs on all buildings, on the Kremlin and on bridges, since the rain could not damage them. Then, on the seventh of November, they will still come in handy.

Finally, we tried to see everything that was possible in Moscow. We ran to schools, we talked to business women, actresses, students. We went into shops where queues were lined up for everything. For example, if the sale of gramophone records was announced, then a line would immediately line up, and in a couple of hours the records were sold clean. The same thing happened when a new book went on sale.

It seemed to us that even during the two months that we stayed here, people began to dress better. Moscow newspapers announced a reduction in prices for bread, vegetables, potatoes and some fabrics. There was pandemonium in the shops all the time, they bought up literally everything that was offered.

The economy of the Soviet Union, which was almost entirely focused on military products, gradually switched to products of peacetime. People who had been deprived of consumer goods — both basic necessities and luxury goods — were now eager to buy them.

When ice cream was brought to the store, the queue for it lined up for many blocks. The seller with the ice cream box was instantly surrounded, and his goods sold out so quickly that he did not have time to take money. Russians love ice cream and they never get enough of it.

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Every year, on the first Saturday of September, Muscovites celebrate the capital's birthday Russian Federation... In 2017, Moscow will celebrate City Day on the second weekend - September 9, the holiday will continue on September 10. Moscow was founded in 1147 - therefore, in 2017 the capital celebrates its 870th anniversary. On the Day of the City of Moscow, festivities and concerts are held in the capital. The festive program will end with a solemn fireworks (). We will find out where to watch fireworks in Moscow on City Day - 870.

Solemn opening of the Moscow City Day holiday will start on September 9 at 12:00 on Red Square and with 13:00 festive and entertainment events start at more than 200 sites in the city, including in the capital's parks, where a festive program for the City Day has been prepared. The main venues for celebrating the City Day will be Tverskaya Street, Krasnaya, Manezhnaya, Tverskaya, Teatralnaya, Pushkinskaya and Bolotnaya Squares, Arbat Street, Poklonnaya Gora, Gorky Park, Sokolniki, Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, Kolomenskoye Museum-Estate, VDNKh and pedestrian zones of Moscow. So the question of where to go on City Day on September 9 and 10 has a simple answer - you can go to Moscow parks. It will be fun and interesting - the plan of events for the Moscow City Day in 2017 is extensive, the program of celebrations in the parks is prepared for all ages and for all tastes.

Moscow City Day 2017 - program of events in Moscow parks

Moscow City Day 2017 program - September 9-10

The City Day will be celebrated on the squares and streets of Moscow. Moscow will celebrate its 870th birthday. This means that a large number of bright, large-scale and free entertainment has been prepared for Muscovites and guests of the capital on City Day. The organizers promise that the City Day 2017 in Moscow will be unprecedented - in the city will pass more than a thousand events. A whole system will create the mood for all Muscovites and visitors holiday decorations... More than 270 art objects will be installed at various points to decorate Moscow on City Day. During the festival "Anniversary of Moscow - 870" venues throughout the city will tell about the outstanding achievements, discoveries and inventions of Muscovites. We will find out where to go on Moscow City Day 2017.

• Festival Moscow-870

The Jubilee of Moscow 870 festival will take place from 1 to 10 September. Throughout the city, there are 40 thematic sites that tell about outstanding people and events related to Moscow. The venues are divided according to themes: “Moscow conquers”, “Moscow is creating”, “Moscow is building”, “Moscow sets records”, “Moscow is inventing”, “Moscow is discovering” and “Our victories”. The sites are dedicated to the achievements of scientists and inventors, theater figures, composers, famous buildings, military campaigns, etc.

In particular, 7 zones will operate on Tverskaya and Mokhovaya streets, which will be completely closed for cars. The "Moscow Sets Records" zone on Tverskaya will house a parkour park, two arenas for boxing, jumps for motocross and mountain bike, a climbing wall in the form of towers "Moscow City" 10 meters high and much more. It will host boxing and parkour competitions, freestyle shows with tricks on special bicycles, and master classes. About 500 sports instructors will conduct classes for adults and children in snowboarding, trampoline jumping and other sports.

In the zone "Moscow is building" on Tverskaya, art objects reflecting Moscow architecture, made of plexiglass, plastic, plywood and metal, will be installed, hand-painted and illuminated. So, on Tverskaya one can see models of Stalin's skyscrapers, the sculpture "Worker and Collective Farm Woman", models of the Soviet Mars rover and lunar rover, the icebreaker "Arktika". The key object will be a model of the orbital space station "Salyut-7" in almost the original scale, it will be possible to look there. And the first woman to walk into outer space, Svetlana Savitskaya, will talk about her unique experience at the festival.

At the site "Moscow Invents", which will open on the section of Tverskaya Street from Voznesensky to Stoleshnikov Lane, scientists will tell about the most recent discoveries. So, biologist and journalist Ilya Kolmanovsky will tell about the unusual abilities of plants and animals. During the master classes and experiments, the audience will be shown how we sense tastes, why such natural phenomena as tsunami or thunderstorms occur. The nature of electricity will become clearer with the help of lasers and mirrors, scientific shows "Crystallomania", "Reaktiv" and "Mendeleev" will be held.

Where: Moscow, Revolution Square, Tverskoy Boulevard, Novopushkinsky Square, Manezhnaya square, Novy Arbat, etc.

• Festival "Good Deeds" on Tsvetnoy Boulevard

Charitable organizations will organize an exhibition-fair of helping residents of a big city on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. Those in need can be helped by buying dishes, toys, souvenirs, clothes and accessories. Everyone will be able to participate in the charity run for a donation of 200 rubles or more. The length of the distance is 6.5 km, registration is on the site until September 8. On the evening of September 10, a concert will take place at which the groups Chelsea, Django, Pizza, ex-soloist of Tatu Lena Katina, Sogdiana, Dominik Joker and Katya Kokorina, rapper Kravts, Stas Piekha and other artists will perform.

Where: Moscow, Tsvetnoy Boulevard

• Intermuseum Festival on Arbat

On the City Day, historians and literary critics on the stage at the theater. Vakhtangov will tell about the Arbat - a unique place, Moscow's Montmartre, the center of the cultural life of the capital. Walking excursions will be organized for those who wish. On September 9 and 10, the Russian group "Feelin's", the Italian singer Boris Savoldell, the project "YeseninJazz" will perform here.

Where: Moscow, st. Arbat

• Festival "Bright People"

The Bright People Street Theater Festival will take place in Gorky Park and Muzeon. Here you can see performances of foreign and domestic theatrical projects. The French collective Remue Ménage will present the play "Bear's Mouth" with giant artificial bears. Italian Corona will present the "Lotus Flower" and "White Lady" shows, featuring dancers, acrobats and musicians who became famous at Venetian carnival... The Russian team Liquid Theater and graduates of GITIS will perform with a 10-hour fairy tale show "Colored Dreams". The audience will go on a magical journey with trapeze artists, acrobats and opera singers.

A fusion of design, theatrical, visual and musical arts will be presented in the Muzeon Park of Arts. The performance "Fashion + Poetry" will take place here, during which the poems of contemporary poets will be read by actors dressed in designer outfits from Moscow fashion designers. The troupes of the Artem Gaponenko Theater, Sketches in Space and Freak. Factories ". Will pass fashion shows designers Andrei Bartenev, Venera Kazarova, Kirill Mintsev and others. Visitors will also be able, with the help of stylists, to create unique images, make accessories and souvenirs with their own hands from environmentally friendly materials in the Fashion + Art zone.

• "Theater March" in the Hermitage Garden

"Theater March", which will be held for the fifth time on City Day and will allow Muscovites to see new theatrical performances is free. On September 9, the School of Contemporary Play will show "Harmful Advice" based on the book by G. Oster, and "Teatrium on Serpukhovka" - the family musical "The Flying Ship". For adults, there will be a concert "On the Blue Danube" from the Musical Theater. K. S. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko. The 2017 Golden Mask nominees - dancers of the Ballet Moscow Theater will perform with a modern dance performance “All Paths Go North”. In the evening, the Taganka Theater troupe will show the rock and drama Viy based on Gogol's story, in which the actors are both musicians, and the lyrics of the deceased bard Venya D'Rkin (Alexander Litvinov) give depth and new understanding of the mystical story. On Sunday, September 10, artists of Moscow theaters will perform old favorite songs about Moscow. Then the musical and poetic program "Dance Floor" and the poetic performance "Brodsky. Poems "from the Praktika Theater, the Meyerhold Center and the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop. Children on this day will be able to be announcers, directors and even actors in the Stanislavsky creative workshop.

Where: Moscow, Hermitage Garden

Where: Moscow, TsPKiO im. Gorky, park of arts "Muzeon"

• "Labyrinth of Time" at the Moscow Zoo

On City Day, visitors to the Moscow Zoo will be told about the history of the Moscow Zoo, starting from its foundation in 1864. Everyone will be able to travel back in time and visit the opening of the zoo, see how the zoo looked like during the Soviet era. Children will be offered to take part in the festive procession in the form of animals. The guys will make masks themselves from paper at a master class.

Where: Moscow Zoo

• "City of Poets" on Triumfalnaya Square

Lovers of poetry should look at Triumfalnaya Square, where they will read poems by famous poets who were born in the capital: from Pushkin to Vysotsky, from Lermontov to Akhmadulina. Literary quests and quizzes have also been prepared for visitors; the action "Rhyme with Moscow" will take place. The heroes of Russian classics will come to life in theatrical and musical performances.

Where: Moscow, Triumfalnaya square

• "Moscow 60s" in the Garden of them. Bauman

An excursion program and a historical lecture hall dedicated to the era of the 60s - 70s of the twentieth century will be held in the garden named after Bauman. This time was remembered for the growing prosperity of Muscovites, the provision of housing and technology, the active construction of Khrushchev and constructivist buildings, as well as space achievements. During these years, the architectural formation of modern Moscow took place. Visitors will see their favorite Soviet films of the 60s and 70s, a photo exhibition of the life of Soviet citizens under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, Guests will be able to dance twist and rock and roll to retro hits of Russian and foreign music and take a selfie in the interior of the 60s. Children at master classes will be able to play builders, animators and even assemble a spaceship.

Where: Moscow, Bauman Garden

• Free excursions

Muscovites on City Day will be able to go on free excursions along the Moscow River and the MCC. While walking on the river tram "Along the Moskva River Through the Centuries" you can see Vorobyovy Gory, Novodevichy Convent, Andreevsky (Pushkin) Bridge, Kremlin and Moskvoretskaya embankments. The guide will tell you about the history of these places, interesting facts, and show you the longest Moscow building of the 18th century. It is required to pay a transport fee and register on the site. The excursion will take place on September 9 and 19, gathering at the "Novospassky Most" pier.

On the excursion "MCC - steel ring capital "on September 9 and 10, passengers will be told about the historical background of the modern MCC, 15 historical stations and other interesting facts... For example, the fact that once the passage of the MOZhD cost more than a can of red caviar 450 gr. Participants are required to pay for travel and a deposit to use the audio guide. Tours start at 11.00, 14.00, 16.00. Gathering at the Live Communication information stand at the Delovoy Tsentr MCC station.

On holidays, there will be other excursions and quests around museums and estates, sightseeing around the city.

Residents and guests of the capital will be able, together with a guide, to take a boat trip and take a train ride, play old games in estates and listen to street musicians at the festival.

Moscow museums will be open for free on City Day

To celebrate the 870th anniversary of the capital, the Department of Culture and the Museum of Moscow are organizing more than ten free excursions. Those who wish can go on a trip along the Moscow River, ride with a guide along the Moscow Central Circle and play old games in city estates.

The courtyard of the Museum of Moscow will host festival "Museum and City"... Visitors will see an exhibition dedicated to the history of the city, listen to stories about prominent Muscovites. Street artists and musicians will perform there, and residents will be able to take part in the discussion of cultural projects, including in the field of information technology. Festive events will be held over two days, September 9 and 10, from 10:00 to 20:00.

Participants excursions "Along the Moskva River through the centuries" they will see the Sparrow Hills, where ancient settlements were located even before our era, as well as five Stalinist skyscrapers, the Novodevichy Convent and other attractions. During the walk, sightseers will be told about the history of the Andreevsky Bridge, which in 1999-2000 was moved two kilometers down the river and "put" in Gorky Park. In addition, the participants will be shown the oldest embankment of the capital - Kremlevskaya, as well as the longest building in Moscow of the 18th century - the Imperial educational house on Moskvoretskaya embankment.

The tour will take place on September 9 at 18:00 and on September 10 at 11:00, duration - two hours and 15 minutes. The route will start from the Novospassky Most pier. The tour is free, but participants need to pay a transport fee and pre-register on the bureau's website, which will launch within two weeks.

On the same days, Muscovites are expected to excursions "MCC - the steel ring of Moscow"... Participants will learn the history of the construction of 15 historical stations of the Moscow Circular Railway, adjacent to the modern stations of the MCC. These are Andronovka, Ugreshskaya, Presnya (Kutuzovskaya), Likhobory, Vladykino, Rostokino, Belokamennaya and others. All of them were built at the beginning of the 20th century in the Art Nouveau style.

The station buildings were designed by the architect Alexander Pomerantsev. He also worked on the project of the GUM building on Red Square. Also, the participants of the excursion will learn that the cost of a trip on the Moscow circular railway in those days was greatly overestimated and varied depending on the class of the carriage. For example, travel in first class cost passengers three rubles. For comparison: in 1911, a cab ride in Moscow cost an average of 15 kopecks, a pound (approximately 450 grams) of red caviar - 44 kopecks, and a three-course dinner accompanied by live music at the Slavyansky Bazar restaurant - 1.75 rubles.

Excursion "MCC - the steel ring of Moscow" will be held on September 9 and 10, a meeting with a guide - at the Live Communication information board at the MCC Delovoy Tsentr station. The gathering of participants is at 11:00, 14:00 and 16:00. The duration of the excursion is an hour and a half, this is how much it takes to make a full circle around the ring. The tour is free, participants will need to pay a deposit for using the radio guide and pay for the fare.

9th of September in the museum "Manor of the Golitsyn princes Vlakhernskoye-Kuzminki"(Horse yard, Starye Kuzminki street, house 13/15) excursions, master classes, evening tea and a historical horse show will be held. At 12:00, guests can visit the author's excursion to the exhibition "Gardens and Parks"... Sightseeing tours around the estate will also take place at 14:00 and 15:00.

From 16:00 to 20:00, citizens will be able to get on "Manor evening"- tea drinking to the accompaniment of live music, after which theatrical performances await guests. The evening will end with a horse show in historical costumes of the 19th century.

9th of September in the museum "English courtyard"(4a Varvarka Street), visitors will be able to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the past centuries. Against the background of the historical interiors of the 16th-17th centuries, on the site you can take part in ancient folk amusements, for example, play with burners - the prototype of modern saloons, and grandmother - the predecessor of the dice game. For the guests, animators will conduct three sessions of folk amusements lasting one hour. Beginning at 11:00, 13:00, 15:00. The next day, September 10, the English Compound Museum will host two sightseeing tours lasting one hour. Beginning at 10:30 and 12:30.

Schedule of excursions, workshops and quests on City Day 2017

- 18: 00-20: 15 - boat excursion "Along the Moscow River through the centuries", you will need to pay a transport fee;

- 18:00 - bus excursion “Moscow. View from above ”, you will need to pay a transport fee and a ticket to the observation deck.

- 11: 00-12: 30, 14: 00-15: 30, 16: 00-17: 30 - excursions around the Moscow Central Circle, gathering at the Live Communication information board, MCC Delovoy Tsentr station;

- 11: 00-13: 15 - boat excursion "On the Moskva River through the centuries", you will need to pay a transport fee.

Museum "English Courtyard"

Museum of History "Lefortovo"

Museum of Archeology of Moscow

Moscow City Museum

As part of the Museum and the City festival, free guided tours of the museum's exhibitions will be held.

- 11: 00-12: 00, 12: 00-13: 00, 15: 00-16: 00, 18: 00-19: 00 - excursion "The history of medieval Moscow";
- 13: 00-14: 00, 16: 00-17: 00 - excursion "The history and architecture of the complex" Provision shops "".

Museum "Manor of Princes Golitsyn Vlakhernskoye-Kuzminki"

- 12:00 - a guided tour of the historian Boris Sokolov;
- 14:00, 15:00 - excursions around the estate;
- 16: 00-20: 00 - "Manor evening", which will include tea drinking with live music, horse show and theatrical performances.