Naberezhnye Chelny will celebrate the holiday of Slavic culture "Ivan Kupala"

July 7, Naberezhnye Chelny will host the Republican festival of Slavic culture "Ivan Kupala". A folk ritual feast is held on the banks of the Melekeska River.

In the program: decoration with ribbons of the bathing tree - birch, solemn opening of the holiday, greeting of officials and representatives of Ukrainian national-cultural associations, theatrical performance with the participation of Ukrainian, Russian vocal and folklore groups and individual performers from the cities Naberezhnye Chelny, Kazan, Tukaevsky district, as well as national ensembles of the House of Friendship of Peoples "Rodnik"; sale of arts and crafts; national games; contests: "Weaving wreaths", "Schastlivy  lapot", "Merry jumping"; rituals of fortune telling on wreaths, purification by water; the burning of the campfire and a large round dance "Oh, Ivan, oh, Kupala."

The beginning at 18.00.

The festival of Slavic culture "Ivan Kupala" has deep historical roots. It is held on the day of the summer solstice, when the sun turns on the winter road and the days start to decrease. This turn of the sun, which divided the year into two halves of summer and winter, was accompanied by a special celebration, similar in general to all European nations.

When singing special Kupala songs, this night lights are lit with symbolic meaning (like the emblem of the hot June sun), making various fortune telling, trying to penetrate the signs of their destiny.

Brave people go to the forest to collect medicinal herbs, flowers and roots at night, According to the belief, only then they provide real help when they are ripped off at the dawn of Ivan's day, before they dew on them. These herbs are preserved for a year, like a shrine. They fumigate the sick, they are thrown into a flooded stove during a thunderstorm to protect the house from a lightning strike.

But the hardest thing is to get a fern on Ivanovo night, which at this time only is blooming. Whoever finds a freshened fern, he acquires the power to command all. Before him, evil spirits are powerless.

These superstitions and pagan rituals that have survived to this day prove the great importance that the people attach to the forces of nature and its power, appealing to it with a request for protection and prosperity.

The folk ceremonial feast of "Ivan Kupala" has been held in the Republic of Tatarstan since 1996, the initiators of the holiday are public organizations of Ukrainians.

Over the years, it was held in the city. Kazan, Nizhnekamsk, Naberezhnye Chelny.