ST. PETERSBURG, June 28. / TASS /. The traditional St. Petersburg festival of graduates of the Scarlet Sails schools, which this year became the final event of the All-Russian prom, was held in St. Petersburg in the mode of television broadcasting, without the presence of young people on the Neva embankments, a TASS correspondent reported from the scene.
Graduate Celebration in St. Petersburg is annually attended by more than 1 million people. For the first time the Scarlet Sails holiday was organized for Leningrad schoolchildren in 1968. Subsequently, the tradition was interrupted, it was resumed in 2005 with the support of the administration of St. Petersburg. This year’s graduation was held without spectators to ensure the epidemic safety of city residents.
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By tradition, the governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, addressed the graduates with a parting word. “You say goodbye to the school. You have an adult life ahead. Let it be happy! But a lot depends on you,” he said. Beglov reminded the graduates of the words of the writer Alexander Green: “The truth is to do miracles with your own hands.”
This year, the presentation script was dedicated to the work of the writer Alexander Green, the author of the story “Scarlet Sails”, in honor of the 140th anniversary of his birth. The script and director of the concert part of the festival was directed by Vasily Barkhatov.
Unusual this time was the route of the Russia brig under scarlet sails: for the first time it passed not along the Neva, but along the Gulf of Finland. Brig appeared against the backdrop of a colorful pyrotechnic show and colorful fireworks. At the same time, on a specially designed stage, there was a concert of Russian performers, including Dima Bilan, Vera Brezhneva, rapper ST, Rasa, IOWA and others.
“The design of the stage resembles a ship running on the waves. Elements of marine decor – mother-of-pearl shells – add romance. Scarlet sails crowning the highest point of the stage complete the composition,” said the organizers of the festival, which was fully broadcast onChannel Five“, and its culmination was shown by all federal channels.
Online graduation in the NWFD
In most regions of the Northwestern Federal District (NWFD), due to the threat of the spread of the coronavirus, authorities also refused to hold mass events on June 27. “Graduates stay home and prepare for exams. Together with the whole country, they will celebrate the federal graduation night online,” TASS was told in the press service of the Ministry of Education of the Kaliningrad Region.
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To graduates of the region’s largest university, the Baltic Federal University named after Immanuel Kant, who graduates more than 2 thousand students this year, was congratulated by the governor of the region Anton Alikhanov. “Today you have completed one of the most important stages of your life, determined your future and gained a profession. We are waiting for you in various organizations of the Kaliningrad region. Today you are taking the main step in your life, use the acquired knowledge to the maximum,” he said.
In the Novgorod region, too, they decided not to hold regional events dedicated to graduation parties. All students were invited to participate in the All-Russian online graduation. A similar situation is in Karelia, where in the conditions of a pandemic, schools abandoned mass gala evenings. However, school No. 9 held several street ceremonies for groups of 10 people, director Anton Kolokolov told TASS.
“The graduation year turned out to be very difficult, unusual for you. You have become practically pioneers of such a full-fledged distance learning, which required additional qualities, such as independence, responsibility. But this has also become a good school for future life in our new, so rapidly changing world. which, of course, will be more and more [становиться] digital, “he said.
The governor of the Vologda Oblast Oleg Kuvshinnikov also addressed the graduates with parting words. “Today you have completed yet another stage in your life – school. This year was difficult. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, training took place in an unusual distance format. Graduation will take place online, and the exam dates have been postponed. But I’m sure you will succeed. already great fellows. I wish you continued success, “the governor wrote on his page on VKontakte.
As a gift for the upcoming graduation, the guys from Vologda took part in the filming of the channel’s youth online party MTV Russia and online meetings with artists, said the Vologda regional youth center “Commonwealth”. Traditional graduation parties, depending on the epidemic situation, are still planned to be held in the Vologda Oblast after passing the exam.
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