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Source: Novosibirsk State University – Novosibirsk State University –
Maslenitsa has been celebrated at NSU since March 19, 1967. Traditionally, folk festivities dedicated to the arrival of spring take place near the main building of the university. The program includes round dances, folk games, performances by folk groups, youthful fun with competitions and much more. This year, Maslenitsa coincided with the first day of spring and gathered more than a thousand guests – students, university teachers and city residents.
Various student associations take an active part in the Maslenitsa festivities. Thus, the initiative group Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, NSU For the second year in a row, she held a master class on making dolls-amulets in the Russian tradition. Anyone could try to make it from fabric. And the NSU Handicraft Club “τρια μοιρα” helped the participants make such a doll from threads.
For those interested in active games, the modern sword fighting club at NSU Siberica LegioN* offered to try themselves in the role of a knight and take part in a sword fight. And the student sports club “Enot” organized areas for playing gorodki and the traditional Maslenitsa game “valenki throwing”.
Peddlers, guys from the theater studio “kvARTira”, worked at the celebration: in order to treat yourself to a pancake from a box, you had to tell a Russian proverb, saying, sing a ditty or a verse from a Russian song. And you could warm up with hot tea from a real wood-fired samovar.
— Folk holidays introduce us to the traditions of our ancestors, so it is important to celebrate them. Almost all of our events that tell about Russian culture are extremely popular with foreign students of NSU. This includes Maslenitsa, Russian folk parties, and other events, — said Elena Krasilova, Head of the Department of Youth Policy and Educational Work of NSU.
The creative association of the Orthodox gymnasium from Berdsk is very familiar with Maslenitsa traditions, so they took part in the celebration. Also in the concert numbers were presented youth groups from the Novosibirsk Regional College of Culture and Arts and the Siberian State University of Railway Engineering “Okolitsa”, folklore ensembles “Maryin Sad”, “Vo Pole”.
One of the main organizers is the NSU ethnoclub “Semyonov Den”. This year, the student association has a new leader – Sofia Kuznetsova. This is her first year of work at NSU and her first experience of holding Maslenitsa within the walls of the university.
— Before joining Semyonov Den, I had participated in organizing Maslenitsa festivities many times. We started the preparatory work long before the holiday. We had to organize the work of the points, think over the concert program, the script, prepare the props for the games. The hardest thing was to coordinate numerous organizational issues. But the most interesting thing was to actually hold the holiday, see the joy on people’s faces, feel the mood, notice how people change their stern and shy expressions to a good-natured and open face. I think that at the end of the holiday, any organizer, along with fatigue, always has joy, satisfaction from the work done and new acquaintances! It seems to me that the university has very sociable and open young people, so the impressions from the holiday are the most pleasant. It was great! — shared the head of the Semyonov Den ethnoclub, Sofia Kuznetsova (Roslyakova).
Students and teachers of the university took part in the Maslenitsa festivities.
“We were passing by and ended up here. There are a lot of people near the stage, and we can’t get close, but we can hear riddles being asked from here,” said fourth-year student Lisa Elster, majoring in Journalism.
“Liza has already managed to guess several,” noted fourth-year student of the Journalism program Vasilisa Bondarenko.
“We would also like to participate in the games of the sword fighting club. I would love to fight Vasilisa with swords,” Lisa added.
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