Kazan Kremlin is in the hands of children

June 1, thousand of young visitors and residents of Kazan celebrated International Children's Day in the heart of the city, the Kazan Kremlin.

Festival "We love the Kremlin!", which is held for the fourth time, developed  on several sites of the ancient fortress. Children showed their talents in dance and music items,   watched theatrical performances, recited poems and participated in various master classes and flashmobs, painted on the pavement, canvas, and even on scroll  called for smoking give up, healthy lifestyle and enjoyed  gratuitous  sweets and ice cream !

A holiday  began by congratulating  kids, who in this day turned one year old. And if the first festival was attended by 6 birthday children,  today  their  first birthday in Kazan Kremlin met 41 kids. "We hope that the first visit to  the Kremlin will be continued, and you will be our regular guests," - noted  director of "The Kazan Kremlin" Museum-Reserve Zilia Valeeva.

One of the brightest pages of the Festival was the summing up of the republican competition of choirs "We are different, but we are together", organized by the Republican public movement "Tatarstan - new century." On International Children's Day  all the participants have been congratulated by  Chairman of Tatarstan State Council Farid Mukhametshin,   who stressed that the problem of the older generation to pass the children  cultural traditions of their peoples. Such competitions and festivals today assist in achieving this goal.

On  one scene, about 600 people performed with the cantata   by  Nazib Zhiganov "Republic of mine", participants of more  than  twenty five choirs from different parts of the republic took part. Songs and dances of the peoples of the world were  performed by educatees  of the House of Peoples' Friendship. On  other side of the fortress the sounds of rock  were heard. Their skills  showed fosterlings of  "School of Rock". For the first time took part in the celebration K Habensky  Kazan City studio  of creative development  that amused all  by  funny sketches. Popularity  with kids  enjoyed also  pets of "Amazing Zoo", "Eco-Farm" from the environmental movement "Green Planet", a bicycle obstacle course arranged by  experts of the Office of Traffic Police Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Kazan.

Lovers were  tinkering hands waiting for master classes from the Museum. It was possible to paint plaster figurines, learn glass painting, drawing wool  at the master class "Fluffy watercolor" and learn how to make birds out of scrap materials.

In Cannon  yard of the  Museum-Reserve  unwrapped a Literary courtyrad. Children gladly took part in a quiz, read verses, made up of the letters  their names, learned to make bookmarks, went into the "summer reading room" with a specially equipped place for reading books.

On the same site there was another important event - a final collection of money and summarizing the action "Someone's life is not a trifle!" held by a Charitable foundation "Life Line". Within the action   in crowded places in  such major cities as Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Sochi and Volgograd special "piggy banks" for coins have been installed. All funds raised will be used for the treatment of seriously ill children. Their  contribution have  been made  by  the guests of the Festival.

As the first deputy head of Kazan Executive Committee Damir Fattakhov said  "Odd money  may be found  in  any pocket and hands of each of our citizens, but it does not matter the amount of money and resources that we collect  through this action. The main thing is the maximum coverage of our population, which will take part in this action. " He also noted the importance that our children feel and understand that they can help others, to do everything that depends on them.

Particularly pleasant  was that the organizers of many actions at the Festival became the children themselves, who collected signatures for a healthy lifestyle, knitted ribbon those against smoking, urged care of nature, showed a cheerful scientific experiments, by  their own  example showed  how active and bright you can be.

At the end of the holiday a dance flashmob was  held by Council of children's organizations in Tatarstan. Ombudsman for Children in the Republic of Tatarstan Guzel Udachina greeted the participants of the action and  congratulated on the holiday.

The festival this year has shown once again how many bright and talented children  live in the Republic.