The Znanie educational marathon will be held in Moscow.First

The federal educational marathon Znanie will be held on April 28-30.The First Znanie Societies, dedicated to the Year of Unity of the Peoples of Russia. The lecturers in the capital will be defenders of the Motherland and military personnel, government and public figures, scientists, athletes, masters of culture and art. They will discuss with the youth the importance of the unity of peoples for the strengthening and development of the country. On the first day, marathon lecturers will meet with young people in eight Russian cities, on the second and third days two more cities will join the project, and on the main site, in the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", the program will last three days.

Marathon Knowledge.The first ones will take place on the eve of the celebration of the Day of the Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Federation, which is celebrated in Russia for the first time this year. The marathon venues will open in each of the federal districts of the country.

Valery Fadeev, Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, and Head of the Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs (FADN of Russia), will address the marathon in Moscow. Igor Barinov, CEO and Chairman of the Management Board of Russian Railways Oleg Belozerov.

Also invited to participate in Moscow are: Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration and Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council; Dmitry Peskov, Presidential Press Secretary; Valery Falkov, Minister of Science and Higher Education; Anton Siluanov, Minister of Finance; Olga Lyubimova, Minister of Culture; Dmitry Chernyshenko, Deputy Prime Minister.

Cultural figures will reveal the importance of unity for the development of art. Among them is the artistic director of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater and the Moscow Provincial Theater, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Sergey Bezrukov.

Heroes of the SVO, journalists, and military personnel will share their experiences on the capital's platform. They will tell how the fighting brotherhood of nations helps Russia to win and defend the right to the future.

On the first day, April 28, the program will cover Moscow, Yakutsk, Novy Urengoy, Barnaul, Tver, Naryan-Mar, Makhachkala and the Donetsk People's Republic. On the second day, the program will continue in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, on the third — in Moscow and Astrakhan. The main venue of the marathon will be the Manege Central Exhibition Hall.

Online broadcasts of speeches and educational content prepared during the three days of the program will traditionally be available on the Znanie Society's website, in the official group of the educational organization on VKontakte, as well as on the Tricolor operator's TV channels.

The first federal educational marathon Znanie.The first was organized in May 2021 and became a symbol of the reboot of the Znanie Society. Ten marathons have already been held in five years, during which more than 1,600 meetings of young people with outstanding people took place, and broadcasts of these events have gained more than 1.3 billion views. The event is organized within the framework of the national project "Youth and Children".