VK will open ballet week for art lovers on October 30.

In honor of World Ballet Day, from October 30 to November 6, VK Video users will receive exclusive broadcasts of productions from the Buryat Opera and Ballet Theater, the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theater, the Boris Eifman St. Petersburg Ballet Theater, the Mariinsky Theater (Primorsky Stage) and other Russian theaters.

"The online format allows art to go beyond the stages and theaters. Users have a high interest in Russian ballet: on December 31 last year, 8.1 million people watched the legendary ballet The Nutcracker live on VK," said Dmitry Uvarov, Director of Strategic Partnership at VK.

All materials will be combined with the hashtag #Ballet360, a special meta channel dedicated to ballet will appear in Zen, and in the VK Holidays mini-application, users will be able to set statuses from the Ballet is Life set, designed specifically for Ballet Day.

Also, by the holiday, a special category of tests on the topic of culture will appear in the "Other Business" service. Users will be able to test their knowledge of the ballet world and get a chance to win prizes.

In addition, the State Television and Radio Fund will share archival recordings with Soviet stage legends Nadezhda Pavlova and Vyacheslav Gordeev in the one-act ballets Hamlet and Orpheus.

Without a ticket to the ballet: the audience can watch the performances for free for a week

On March 25, the "Theater Week" from VK started

Earlier, on October 28, the General director of the Russian Museum, Alla Manilova, announced that the museum would present 18 works of art at the Great Victory exhibition. Russia is my Story", which will be held at the Moscow Manege from November 4 to December 8. Metropolitan Tikhon of Simferopol and Crimea, Chairman of the Patriarchal Council of the Russian Orthodox Church for Culture, in turn, pointed to the unique scale of the exhibition, calling it unprecedented.

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