Today, the “Platinum Third” of the universities of the Freshman Day will be announced in the CSC KFU “UNICS”

(KZN.RU, November 27, Alsu Safina). Tonight, the main results of the Freshman Day will be summed up and the “Platinum Third” of higher educational institutions will be announced in the CSC KFU “UNICS”. On December 2, the big gala concert of the Freshman Day of secondary vocational schools will be held at the puppet theater “Ekiyat”, said Airat Faizov, the chairman of the Committee for Children and Youth Affairs, on the Business Monday today.

He reminded that the festival Freshman Day has been held in the Tatarstan’s capital for more than 20 years. Since October, the festival has taken place at each faculty and department of each educational institution. “More than 5 thousand freshmen tried themselves in the creative role on the stages of the assembly and concert halls, and more than 30 thousand people became spectators”, said A. Faizov.

On November 14-16, more than 2.5 thousand people competed among themselves in the Kazan Youth Center named after A. Gaidar in 5 directions: musical, dance, theater, and also original genre, and journalism.

Qualifying stages for students of professional educational organizations (colleges) were held from 20 to 23 of November.

The reporter also said that the best programs on the theme of the Year of Ecology in the nominations “STEM”, “Original Song”, “Fashion Theater”, “Video”, and “Animation” will be determined within the contest program. Another innovation of the Freshman Day this year was the nomination “StandUp” in theatrical direction, “Animation” in the original genre, and “SMM” in the journalism. “I want to note that the students didn’t hesitate to try themselves in non-standard genres but showed themselves to be real professionals”, said A. Faizov.

In total, 499 applications from collectives and individual performers were received this year.

The jury included Leisan Khametova, a People's Artist of the RT, Honored Artists of the RT Denis Mochalov and Marina Samkova, Airat Kallimullin, an Honored Worker of Culture, participants and winners of TV projects “Dance on TNT” and “Dance” Anna Tikhaya and Marat Kazikhanov, Andrey Rudenko, a composer, Honored Artists Lyalya Garifullina and Tatiana Lyadova, Ksenia Belova, an actress of the theater “Zanaves” (Moscow), and others.

“We all remember the student's free fun time”, sad Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan. “It is important that the current freshmen and students, in general, have much more opportunities to realize their abilities in Kazan because the base of our universities has seriously grown”.

According to the Mayor, students can develop their talents in the areas they have enrolled to become professionals. In addition, they can try themselves on stage and in sports.

“God grant that the energy of young people doesn’t run out and was aimed at creating, such as art and the Freshman Day”, concluded I. Metshin.