The Department for Talented Youth Affairs

First Online Student Concert of the Vernadsky cultural and educational consortium

First Online Student Concert of the Vernadsky cultural and educational consortium

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On 27 June 2020 MSU students with the support of the Russian Union of Rectors held the first Online Student Concert of the Vernadsky cultural and educational consortium on Youth Day and within the framework of the youth teleconference In the footsteps of the Great Victory.


The concert was attended by students of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Kazan Federal University, Kolomna State Social and Humanitarian University, Chechen State University, Ulyanovsk State University and Kabardino-Balkarian State University. 


The concert repertoire was diverse: students sang songs about the Great Patriotic War and folk songs in Russian, Tatar and Kabardian language. Two acts were accompanied by a live guitar. 


MSU student Katarina Yurovskaya opened the concert with the Russian folk song How the morning rose early. 


Further, Frontline chauffeur song was performed by Eduard Makarimov, a master student of the MSU Faculty of Law. 


Soloists of the folk song ensemble Salam of Kazan Federal University Eduard Danilov and Marina Tarakanova performed the cheerful folk songs Erbet and Hey, Kanatym in the Tatar language and its Kryashen dialect, and a student of Kabardino-Balkarian State University Dinara Shamurzaeva sang a lyric song in the Kabardian language Dyschomygyaue (Do not betray). 


The concert was continued by Tatiana Novikova's positive and unifying song Million voices. She represented Kolomna State Social and Humanitarian University. 


Kamilla Kadrova, a student of the MSU Faculty of Philology, performed the song in the retro style Spring Tango. 


The concert was ended with two guitar compositions: Anastasia Posmitnaia and Oleg Azimov from Ulyanovsk State University performed the bard song Korablik, and a student of the Chechen State University Taimaz Vazarkhanov sang the philosophical song Samsara.


The concert turned out to be warm and heartfelt. Thanks to the online format, students who were separated by thousands of kilometers took part in it. Performers and listeners unanimously decided to continue and expand this successful format of cultural exchange and cooperation.