On July 25 at 15.00, the site of the Kazan Family Centre will see an aviation festival entitled “I Opt for the Sky” that is dedicated to the Russian Air Fleet Day. The event organisers are the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan and the Kazanskaya Yarmarka Exhibition Centre.
The festival annually gathers several tens of thousands of people, including professionals and experts of light and mainstream commercial aviation, current and retired employees of the aviation industry, students of aviation specialties, schoolchildren, citizens and guests of Kazan - all those who are not indifferent to the skies. The festival operator is the Kazanskaya Yarmarka.
The event is aimed at popularising aviation among the general public, involving young people in the aviation industry, increasing the prestige of blue-collar and white-collar jobs, and holding a professional festival event for industry experts.
Within the festival, work will be organised for children’s model groups, as well as parachutist demonstrations, various master classes, a concert programme, an award ceremony for distinguished employees in the Tatarstan’s aviation industry, an entertainment programme for children, and a career guidance alley where leading enterprises of republic’s aviation industry will demonstrate their achievements and invite youth to join their ranks.