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Colorful decorations for "Scarlet Sails" have been prepared in St. Petersburg

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In St. Petersburg, the main attractions and modern technologies were combined to arrange a grandiose show. Final preparations are underway for the Scarlet Sails alumni celebration, Izvestia reported on June 27.

Step by step, all the details are falling into place like puzzles and are already beginning to amaze, Natalia Oskerko, a correspondent for Izvestia, reported.

"The organizers have repeatedly talked about the abundance of water on the stage. And here it is, the main surprise of "Scarlet Sails-2025". Musical fountains will be played on the Palace Square, from real pools!" she said.

Maxim Akhtyamov, the director of the concert part of the Scarlet Sails alumni celebration, said that "everything works like clockwork" here.

"The screens must open in time for the scenery to fly by, and the screens close immediately after it. And this is such a difficult technical preparation, for several days here on the Palace Square, we have been programming the scenery so that it would work perfectly on the air," Akhtyamov said.

All technical aspects are hidden from the eyes of the audience behind layers of multimedia screens with a total area of more than a thousand square meters. One of them is curved — it's not for nothing.

"This sheet is a direct association with the sheet of the book, which will have colorful illustrations, and it is also an association with the sail of the brig Rossiya, with a curtain on the window — and the viewer will see all this with the help of computer videography on this screen," said Alexey Bulgakov, technical director of the concert part of the Scarlet Sails.

There are a lot of props this year, and it's big. All this also needs to be hidden until a certain point.

"The stage is divided into two parts and is separated by a special technical curtain, which consists of screens. He hides a hangar behind him, from which the decorations will fly out," said Artem Smirnov, technical manager of the concert part of the Scarlet Sails.

And not only objects, but even artists will "fly". Nadezhda Kadysheva, Zara, Vadim Samoilov — founder and leader of the Agatha Christie group, Akmal', Bearwolf, 5UTRA and The Hatters, Ivanushki International — each of them is preparing a special surprise for graduates.

"This light ring was built especially for one of the artists. And we were allowed to test it. It's high and scary. One can only envy the courage of the stars, who still have to sing like that," Oskerko said.

Below, the Palace Square is in full view. The construction is strong, and the artist will have insurance.

"It's really cool that the artists are responding to our production ideas. Sometimes it seems that they do it at the risk of their lives, but by no means — we rehearse all the extreme numbers with the artists. Our task is to create a show, and each block, each number should be unique, unlike each other," said Vladislav Kabanov, director of the concert part of the Scarlet Sails.

This year is exactly 20 years since the Scarlet Sails holiday was revived on the initiative of ROSSIYA Joint Stock Bank, the Government of St. Petersburg and Channel Five. The graduation ceremony has collected all the key awards of the event industry, but every year it gets bigger and more spectacular. This year, the bar was raised in the truest sense of the word: one of the scenes of the water-pyrotechnic show on the roof of the St. Petersburg hotel.

"This location is truly unique. From this bank of the Neva River, we can see all the power — and the flood of the Neva, we can see the Aurora, we can see the city center — and from here there is an incredibly beautiful view of the Arrow of Vasilyevsky Island," said Andrey Petelin, CEO of Cititel management company, director of the St. Petersburg Hotel.

The celebration will take place on Saturday, June 28.

On June 22, the Scarlet Sails holiday was held in Mariupol, where over a hundred former schoolchildren gathered. The culmination of the event was the passage of the snow-white yacht Assol under scarlet sails as a symbol of a bright future.

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