From September 11 to 17, 2026, Yekaterinburg is hosting the International Youth Festival under the motto “Follow Your Dream.” The main venue is the Yekaterinburg-EXPO exhibition center, where a whole “city of the world’s youth” has unfolded, consisting of seven thematic districts. Geography of participants 10,000 young leaders from 191 countries have come to the festival. Organizers received 113,000 applications, of which 5,000 participants are from Russia and 5,000 from abroad. For the first time in the history of the festival movement, there were 32,000 more foreign applications than Russian ones. Among those who arrived are representatives of Australia, Algeria, Brazil, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, the U.S., France, Italy, […]

It was founded on the initiative of the House of Artistic Education for Children. The theater’s troupe consisted of 13 people, and from day one, it was led by Sergey Obraztsov. At first, the theater’s actors performed in Moscow courtyards, schools, parks, and cultural centers. The theater’s official premiere in its own building took place on April 17, 1932, with the play “Jim and Dollar,” written specifically for the theater by Andrey Globa. In 1970, the theater moved to a new building on the Garden Ring. The famous mechanical puppet clock, now a Moscow landmark, was installed on the theater’s facade. Today, the State Academic Central Puppet Theater named after […]