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The festival was held in Tatarstan from March 1 to November 16 of this year. The application process ended on October 1. The qualifying zonal rounds were held with great success in Almetyevsk, Zainsk, Naberezhnye Chelny, and Kazan.

The festival aims to popularise blue-collar and white-collar jobs and to uncover the creative potential of young professionals. The project helps young people aged 18 to 35 that work in enterprises and organisations of the republic to express themselves in a creative way.

This year, representatives of 174 republic’s enterprises, organisations and establishments submitted applications for participation in the Our Time - Beznen Zaman festival. Among this year’s participants are such well-known organisations of the republic as Ammoni, Nizhnekamskneftekhim, Almetyevsk Pipe Plant, Gorbunov Kazan Aviation Plant, Tatenergo, Tatneft-Neftekhim, Kazan State Gunpowder Plant, Traffic Safety Establishment, and many others.

The festival’s winners were awarded with diplomas, souvenirs, and money prizes.

A Grand Prix winner, the team of the Gorbunov Kazan Aviation Plant, received a diploma, the Tatarstan Presidential Challenge Cup and a cash prize of RUB 500,000.

Congratulations to the winners!

Based on information by Tatarstan Presidential Press Service and R. Shigabetdinov

An unforgettable gala concert and an award ceremony for the best performers closed the qualifying zonal round of the 7th Republic’s Annual Open TV Festival of Working Youth Creativity Our Time - Beznen Zaman in Zainsk.

Over the past weekend, jury members watched over 50 original performances of festival contestants at the stage of the Zainsk’s Energetik Palace of Culture.

Traditionally, all festival’s winners and laureates received diplomas and gifts. The holders of the first, second, and third places were presented with special invitations of the jury to the Super Finals of the festival.

An important feature of this year was that most of the contestants presented their songs and choreographic compositions dedicated to the life and culture of not only the Tatars and the Russians, but also Mari, Chuvash, and Bashkir peoples.

The festival also hosted such master classes as Stage Direction, Image of Visions by production director from Moscow Dmitry Platonov and President of the Centre for Stage Practices (Moscow) Vladimir Anosov. Head of the Road from the City Dance Theatre Lilia Bagautdinova also held her Technique of Modern Dance master class.

Based on information by Our Time - Beznen Zaman Organising Committee