Concerts, trainings and performances: plans for the major Summer in Moscow project

On June 1, the major city project Summer in Moscow will begin. It will last for three months. Once again the project will bring together all the exciting charitable, cultural and sporting events of the approaching season, which will be held in all districts of the capital. Most of them will take place outdoors.

From tastings to dancing to plein-air painting

The Gardens and Flowers festival will run until September 7. The city’s public spaces will be transformed into blooming gardens, and rare plants will be seen on the capital’s streets. Moscow residents and visitors will immerse themselves in the atmosphere of summer, will be able to hold colorful photo sessions and walk along picturesque routes.

One of the main gastronomic events of the year will be the Moscow — on the wave. Fish Week festival, which will be held from May 30 to June 8. There will be fish corners on Shkolnaya Street, and open-air shopping chalets will feature a variety of fresh, dried and chilled fish and seafood. At the festival grounds, chefs will prepare unusual and classic dishes especially for visitors.

 

As part of the Times and Epochs history festival from June 11–15, visitors will see enactments of historical periods from antiquity to the Great Patriotic War. Children and adults will learn to hold swords or weave at the loom, and professional reenactors will help them.

From August 14 to 24 the Flavors of Russia festival will run. On the streets of the capital it will be possible to taste the national food of Russia’s many ethnic groups and discover the dishes that have become the trademark of cities from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. New recipes will be presented in tasting events and culinary experiments, inspiring visitors to try out new food combinations at home.

On the site of the Kolomenskoye museum reserve there will be a vintage market in which items from the Soviet and pre-revolutionary eras will be on show and for sale. Visitors will be treated to a varied program featuring collectors and historians. Moscow residents and tourists will be able to learn about the craft of traditional film photography, experience the sound of gramophone records from the 1920s, dance the quadrille and polka to the sounds of a wind-up gramophone, remember Victor Tsoi and the era of 1980s rock, learn about the history of the Olympic bear and buy figures of the Olympics-80 mascot, and admire antique objects and add vintage badges, postcards, dishes and other historic items to their collections.

From June 1 to September 7, Tverskoy Boulevard will host a summer club. This will be a sporty and creative art space that will house mobile beauty salons, fashion pop-ups, greenhouses, a lecture hall, a climbing wall and lots of play areas.

On the same dates on Chistoprudny Boulevard there will be a Street. Dance festival — a vibrant event for experienced dancers and those who want to learn breakdance, hip-hop, funk, shuffle and Latin dance. As part of the event professional dancers will hold master classes and organize flash mobs and dance battles.

On the same days on Strastnoy Boulevard there will be an open air exhibition Street. Art. Workshops, exhibitions of art installations, will be held and there will be painting lessons in the art workshop and live performances by artists. Everyone is welcome to take part. In addition, participants in the Moscow Life in Summer contest will paint unusual art installations such as arches, balloons and floor lamps. Applications to participate can be submitted until the end of May.

In the Moscow Estates festival Moscow residents and visitors to the capital will be able to immerse themselves in past eras in an original interactive format. Last summer season was a record-breaking one: festival events were held in the territory of 40 historic estates, and were visited by more than 700,000 people. The festival was also held last winter.

The capital will also host a Moscow Ice Tea festival which will involve more than 500 gastronomic establishments. Throughout the summer, they will offer Moscow tea to visitors. The drink is prepared according to original recipes. As part of the Moscow Tea Party project, restaurants, cafes and hotels will continue to serve special tea menus including custom-created sweet treats, served in their own original tea services. Moscow Tea can be found in popular retail chains, souvenir stores and other outlets in the capital.

As part of the Summer in Moscow project, participants in the Russpass augmented reality game will hunt for cartoon characters in 100 new sites. For each encounter with the characters, virtual “experience” points will be awarded. These points can be used to buy tickets to museums and other places in the capital at a discount of up to 99 percent within the Russpass bonus program. The game is available on the Russpass mobile app.

Circus, theater and patriotic quests

From June 1 to August 31 in the capital the Theater Boulevard 2025 international open festival will be held. Moscow will turn into a single large theatrical stage, on which Moscow residents and visitors to the capital will be able to plunge into the world of theater, try themselves as actors, scenery designers and directors, and take part in a production or visit a creative workshop, learn more about the history of theater and be photographed with their favorite actors. And of course, visitors will see the best productions from both Russia and abroad.

Over three months, more than 600 productions will be presented at 14 venues in the capital, including the amphitheater on Pokrovsky Boulevard and the amphitheater in the Polytech Museum Park. More than three thousand artists from all over the world will take part in the productions.

On June 1 the Kolomenskoye museum-reserve will host a large-scale celebration of International Children’s Day. Previously, this popular event was held for many years on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, but this year it will be held on a new site that will be able to accommodate even more guests.

Every year the main theme of the holiday is dedicated to favorite children’s poets, artists, writers, legendary films and cartoon characters. In previous years, festivals have been dedicated to the legacies of Sergei Mikhalkov, Nikolai Nosov and Kornei Chukovsky. This year marks the 50 th anniversary of the movie The Adventures of Buratino, which was and still is watched by millions of children of our country. Therefore, the holiday will be held in honor of the iconic character created by Alexei Tolstoy.

The Idol-2025 World Circus Arts Festival will be held in Moscow for the ninth time. It will be held in the arena of the Great Moscow Circus on Prospekt Vernadskovo, the largest circus in Europe. Visitors will be able to attend performances over an entire month. The main events are scheduled to take place from July 17 to 20, and then there will be a gala show for audiences, which will run until August 17.

Since 2013, the festival has established itself as one of the most significant events in the world of circus art. It has brought together more than 1,700 artists from 50 countries, including participants and audiences from China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland, Austria, USA, Mongolia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Cuba and many other countries. The main awards, the Golden Idol, Silver Idol and Bronze Idol are presented by a professional jury for the most spectacular, unusual and flawlessly performed number. The Golden Manège, Silver Manège and Bronze Manège prizes are awarded by media representatives. The Golden Audience Award, Silver Audience Award and Bronze Audience Award are awarded based on an audience vote.

The Summer in Moscow project will also feature circus marquees. These structures will be erected in several picturesque corners of the city. Visitors will be able to plunge into an atmosphere of true magic and fun. Some of the best circus professionals of Russia will present their performances and acts. Spectators will be able to enjoy shows with aerial gymnasts on trampolines, acrobats on a flying trapeze, clown duets, equilibrists and jugglers. Rooms with animals will also be featured.

Victory Park will turn into an open-air museum. In the year of the 80 th anniversary of the Victory, a large-scale patriotic project has been prepared for visitors. Walking and bus tours with professional guides, as well as vintage car tours await them. In total, there are four walking trails through the park, taking in the 25 monuments on Poklonnaya Hill.

For young visitors interactive quests along tangled military roads and secret partisan trails will be organized. Everyone will be able to get their own stylized Red Army book, in which they can collect star-shaped stamps, which are awarded upon completion of each task. The most active participants will receive souvenirs and prizes.

On the territory of Victory Park it will be possible to play gorodki (a traditional Russian game), chess and laser tag, and to collect a soldier’s duffel bag, write a letter to the front, and much more.

The Moscow Children’s Sky Art Festival will be held for the third time in the capital from May 31 to June 1 in the Muzeon Art Park. It will bring together different arts (theater, circus, music, dance) as well as science, literature and architecture. Visitors will be able to view premieres, children’s operas and tours by leading regional theaters, and participate in architectural workshops, master classes by musicians and choreographers, and literary and scientific programs. Theaters and creative groups from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Voronezh, Krasnoyarsk, Tobolsk, Almetyevsk and Kaliningrad will present their performances and acts. There will be about 90 different productions in 12 venues. Guests will be able to see them from 11:00 to 20:00, and admission to all events is free. Last year more than 180,000 people visited the festival.

In early July, the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve will celebrate The Day of Family, Love and Fidelity. This summer the festival will be held in a multi-genre festival format for the 11 th time. Last year it was visited by 57,000 people, and more than 250 artists from famous Moscow theaters and ensembles participated. The Museum-Reserve hosted lectures, over 200 workshops and various other events.

An extensive educational program has been prepared for visitors to Zaryadye Park. It will begin on June 1, International Children’s Day. Each participant will be able to try his or her hand at being a physicist, chemist, biologist or engineer. Visitors guests will also enjoy a large-scale quest created in cooperation with scientists from Lomonosov Moscow State University.

On June 21 and 22 Zaryadye Park will host the Theater Weekend festival. This year’s program is timed to coincide with the 165 th anniversary of Anton Chekhov’s birth and the 80 th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Audiences will view performances by leading Moscow theaters, including the Anton Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, the Russian Academic Youth Theater, the Moscow Sovremennik Theater, the Central Academic Theater of the Russian Army and the Praktika Theater. The motto of this year’s festival will be the slogan “Make way for the young!”. Therefore, the stage will host groups from the Moscow Art Theater Studio School, the Moscow State Institute of Culture, the Russian Institute of Theater Art (GITIS) and, as special guests, actors from the Donetsk Republic Academic Youth Theater.

From classical music to photo exhibitions

On June 28 and 29, the New Classics festival will be held in Zaryadye Park. This year’s program is timed to coincide with the 125 th anniversary of the birth of pianist and avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov. Audiences will hear for the first time his composition “Factory. Music of the Machines. Part of the work has been lost, and composer Nikolai Popov and director Yuri Kvyatkovsky will complete it, creating an extended festival version. Moscow. Music of Machines will connect two musical eras — the avant-garde Moscow of the early 20 th century and today’s Moscow. The main theme of the festival will be the dialog between man and technology, and Zaryadye Park will once again become a space where modern classics meet the future, and traditions intertwine with innovations.

From June 1 to September 7 film screenings will take place under the park’s atmospheric glass canopy, as part of the Film Summer in Zaryadye festival. The audience will see masterpieces of Russian cinematography created by such directors as Vladimir Menshov, Tatiana Lioznova, Karen Shakhnazarov, Grigory Alexandrov, Mikhail Kalatozov and Alla Surikova. The films made by these directors have already become classics. They are still watched with interest by viewers of different ages.

Guests will be treated to 30 films ranging from romantic comedies set against a backdrop of summer landscapes to poignant war dramas, thrilling space adventures and profound social dramas.

As part of the Summer in Moscow project two photo exhibitions will be held on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. These will be dedicated to the 90 th anniversary of the birth of People’s Artist of the USSR Yuri Solomin and the 110 th anniversary of the birth of People’s Artist of the USSR Vladimir Zeldin.

The exhibition in memory of Yuri Solomin will be prepared by the Moscow Directorate of Mass Events under the curatorship of the State Academic Maly Theater and his granddaughter Alexandra Solomina.

The exhibition dedicated to Vladimir Zeldin will be organized by the Moscow Directorate of Mass Events together with the Central Academic Theatre of the Russian Army. Moscow residents and visitors to the city will be able to explore the creative heritage of these legendary actors and see photos from their family archives.

Events to mark the 80 th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War

On June 21 and 22, Moscow will host two landmark events dedicated to preserving the memory of the Great Patriotic War: Memory Line on the Krymskaya embankment of the Muzeon Art Park and Memory Watch. Eternal Flame in the Alexander Garden. Every year Moscow residents and visitors to the capital come to support these events with their whole families.

For the last 11 years, on June 21, the eve of the day of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the section of Krymskaya Embankment by the Muzeon Art Park, is illuminated by the light of 1418 candles. Each candle is a symbol of one of the days of the war. The burning line of remembrance represents the period from June 22, 1941 to May 9, 1945.

The first candle is symbolically lit using fire from the Eternal Flame on Poklonnaya Hill. Everyone can join the event and light a candle, thus reminding themselves and their loved ones of the importance of preserving the memory of the terrible years of war. Year after year, the line is lit fire in a matter of hours and continues to burn through June 22.

During the event Memory Watch. Eternal Flame everyone can remember the events of June 1941 and honor the memory of the fallen for the Motherland by laying flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Every year it is joined by young men and women from youth associations, public organizations and patriotic clubs, as well as Moscow residents and visitors to the capital. At 04:00 a documentary recording of Yuri Levitan’s message on the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 will be played. This will be followed by a minute of silence and the laying of flowers.

On April 26, the project Victory Park. Main patriotic Event began. It is organized by the Victory Museum with the support of the Moscow Government. Until October, at weekends, visitors will be able to take part in a free quest, Onward to Victory!, which will take place at more than 80 interactive sites, and immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the 1940s.

From carnival processions to jazz concerts

From August 28 to August 31 in Gorky Park the Gorky+ festival will be held. The theme of this year’s event is “Gorky + Chekhov”. The theatrical program will be held at the Moscow Young Viewer’s Theater, and the main events, as always, will be presented in Gorky Park and Neskuchny Garden.

Visitors will be able to watch theatrical performances, view exhibitions and installations, participate in a theater lab, and enjoy a music program and a circus show. Last year the festival took in 18 venues, which were visited by more than 330,000 spectators.

In June, the capital will host the IV Moscow Jazz Festival, one of the largest jazz festivals in the world and the largest in Russia. On June 9 the opening ceremony will be held in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, and the closing ceremony will be held in the same venue a week later. From June 10 to 14 festival events will be held in the Hermitage Garden, Zaryadye Park and Muzeon Art Park, VDNKh and the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve. Guests will be treated to over 400 hours of live music performed by more than 1,000 musicians.

From June 2 to July 6 the III Zaryadye Moscow Summer Music Festival will take place. World-class stars and guest artists will present concerts, special projects and children’s performances on the stage of Zaryadye Hall. The closing of the festival will take place in the open air in the park’s amphitheater.

Sports and entertainment in parks

With the advent of the long-awaited summer over 50 Moscow parks are expecting more than 55 million visitors, for whom they have prepared a multi-format festival program.

Moscow residents and visitors will be able to enjoy large-scale events, including the Gardens and Vegetable Plots park festival, City Day and many others.

More than 10,000 local events will take place in the parks. Sports enthusiasts can take part in daily morning exercise groups, do outdoor workouts and more. Taking part in the classes will improve participants’ health, fitness and teamwork skills.

The cultural program includes parties in summer cinemas, immersive performances and dances. Professional artists and creative ensembles will present performances and theatrical productions. Music, dance flash mobs and open-air karaoke events will be organized for visitors to Moscow’s parks every weekend, and the Park Symphony festival will bring together musical beats in different genres.

Moscow residents and visitors to the capital will be able to attend gastronomic events including open master classes led by famous chefs and lectures on trends in cooking. Special areas will be organized for picnics.

Summer program for Young people: development and creative growth

An extensive entertainment and informative program has been organized for Moscow’s young residents. From June 9 to July 19 the first Youth of Moscow creative camp will be held in the Moskino Cinema Park. Participants will be able to showcase their skills in choreography, singing, comedy and other creative fields. There will be several different sections, dedicated to different performing arts. KVN (comedy group sketches), singing and music, film, producing, original genre and event management. The KVN School is aimed at developing skills in the field of comedy and teamwork, and the Original Genre School will help aspiring circus performers, cheerleaders, gymnasts and acrobats to improve their skills in the field of stage arts, and to work with props in interactive performances. In the Dance School children will develop their abilities and try their skills in different styles of choreography, learn to express emotions through dance and create their own unique productions. In the Singing and Music School young Moscow residents will be able to improve their vocal skills, work on their voices together with professionals and join youth music groups. The School of Film, Producers and Event Organizers will focus on developing organizational, production and acting skills.

The final performance, which will form part of the Art Quarter festival, will be an open large-scale gala concert involving all the different creative disciplines. It will be organized by young people from all the different sections of the camp.

From June 28 to August 4, the patriotic camp Moscow Youth. Capital. Summer. will take place for the fourth time. The site will be the territory of the Red Carnation recreation center. Participants will be able to join one of six themed sections.

The Reach section will consist of athletes, the Manage section of representatives of student committees, the Improve section of young professionals, and the Help section of Moscow volunteers. Young Moscow residents will be able not only to develop their skills in different areas, but also to find friends, to realize their creative potential, and to gain new emotional experiences. Guitar songs and meetings around a big campfire will become a camp tradition. Meetings and master classes with participants in the special military operation are planned. All shifts will also teach first aid, firefighting, and how to protect yourself and your loved ones in an emergency.

City residents between the ages of 18 and 35 are eligible to apply. Registration is open on the Moscow Youth portal.

In honor of Youth Day a large number of events will be held in Moscow, from master classes and intellectual games to creative concerts and actions. The flagship event will take place in Khodynskoye Pole Park on June 28 and 29. This year the festival concept is based on the synergy of key areas to promote the all-round development of the city’s young people. Eight key zones will be prepared for participants, dedicated to different topics: patriotism, career guidance, creativity, personal development, friendship, sports, volunteering and trends. Visitors will be able to participate in educational lectures, training sessions and master classes, a job fair, competitions in various sports and much more.

As in previous years, on Youth Day will be held the summer Cup of the Moscow Youth KVN league and the Space Basketball tournament between youth teams. Young stars who want to make a name for themselves throughout the city will be able to perform on the open stage.

From May 25 to September 7, Bolotnaya Square will host the Youth Point festival. The venue will host hubs— interactive modern spaces dedicated to art, sports, development and skills of the future. The festival program will include big open discos, master classes in sketching and watercolor painting, sports activities and much more.

Charitable initiatives

On July 5 and 6 in the N.E. Bauman Garden there will be a charity festival Caring City, dedicated to the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity. The entertainment program will include activities for the whole family. Visitors will be able to participate in creative masterclasses, a charity quest, and raffle in which every ticket wins a prize, and there will be photo zones for summer shots. A play area will be set up for children. At the Furry Friend area, visitors will be able to meet animals from shelters and choose their own pets. A charity fair will also open, featuring goods from the capital’s non-profit organizations (NPOs). All proceeds from sales will go to help the causes supported by the NPOs.

Visitors will be able to get a closer look at the city’s social projects and take part in them.

Checkers, table tennis and fitrock

From May 29 to September 7, Moscow will host a festival of urban sports. Throughout the summer, the capital’s parks will host sports training and entertainment events aimed at popularizing an active lifestyle among Moscow residents. The most active participants will receive prizes.

The Summer. Beach. Moscow Sport festival will be held from May 31 to August 31. It is organized for those who spend the summer in Moscow. The beach vacation spots will offer weekend workouts in Zumba, stretching, functional training, beach volleyball, yoga and energizing fitrock sessions. There will also be an opportunity to play tetherball, Frisbee and beach tennis.

From May 31 to September 7 there will be training sessions for the new season of the Sports Weekend, project, in which Moscow residents will be able to practice sports for free under the guidance of professional coaches on Saturdays and Sundays at more than 50 different city venues and also online.

From June 1 to September 7, a Chess Square space will operate next to the Metropol Hotel. On weekdays everyone can use the chess sets and play informal games. The weekend will be dedicated to family, open and children’s tournaments, as well as master classes by renowned grandmasters.

From June 1 through September 30, a new season of free training sessions will be held as part of the My Sports Neighborhood project. These events will be of interest to people who love sports and want to practice them regularly. The sessions run year-all the round and vary with the season.

On July 5, two large-scale sports events will be held: Moscow Sports Day and Moscow Sports Night. On Moscow Sports Day more than 20 themed sports grounds will be open for participants, and there will be master classes, tournaments and a concert with popular performers, while on Sports Night there will be more than 15 zones with sports activities and autograph sessions with famous athletes.

Green Market and art pavilions

From May 25 to September 7, as part of the Made in Moscow project there will be art pavilions open in Moscow’s main tourist areas. It will be possible to buy more than 70 thousand goods made by local producers, from clothes and cosmetics to children’s toys and food products.

The central venue will be the Green Market on Bolotnaya Square, where, for the first time, there will be a rollerdrome with a summer movie theater. The events organized for visitors include a show in the rollerdrome, discos and other activities organized with the support of the capital’s Committee of Public Relations and Youth Policy, which will be a partner of the central venue for the first time this summer season.

Site Reservations

On the mos.ru web site the Vsye na Ulitsu! (Everyone Out on the Street!) service for booking city-owned premises will be relaunched. Event requests can be submitted from May 20 onwards.

Representatives of small and medium-sized businesses, individual entrepreneurs, self-employed persons and other individuals can book a site free of charge.

More than 100 venues will be available for booking, including workshop chalets, stages, gazebos, sports and dance venues located in every district of the city.

Results of the booking service last year

Last year for the first time the city hosted the festival Summer in Moscow. Vsye na Ulitsu! — a new format for interactions between the city, business and Moscow residents was introduced as part of the event program. Its key feature was the principle that the schedule for summer vacation events in the capital should be created by Moscow residents themselves. Approximately 25,000 events (one in four of all events) were organized by local residents, businesses or NGOs. About 1,100 entrepreneurs organized about 8,500 events and presented their projects to a wide audience.

Time of Opportunities special project

The Time of Opportunities special project for Moscow entrepreneurs, formerly called Come to the light!, is now opening. This is a great opportunity to draw public attention to your business in an exciting way, so that it will be remembered by a wide audience. Stores, restaurants and cafes, service enterprises, fitness centers and sports studios, educational centers and creative studios can take part in the project.

Participants will receive a summer business box, which includes a set of free business promotion services provided by market leaders, the opportunity to place information about their events on the mos.ru virtual noticeboard and on the Yandex Maps and 2GIS applications, and media support in the media: on television, in online publications, print media and Telegram channels.

The Russpass website will be organized to collect feedback from visitors. The entrepreneurs awarded the most positive feedback will receive a package to promote their business with the Most Active label.

To be a part of the project, participants should prepare a unique special promotional event. This could be a themed workshop, seminar, screening, or performance, or something else. They should also fill out a participation questionnaire.

Last season’s special project results

More than 700 organizations from different spheres organized more than 900 promotional events directed at city residents and visitors as part of the Come to the light! project. These included discounts and bonuses, free master classes, gastronomic tasting events, tickets to performances and attendance at sports classes. More than six thousand people took advantage of these.

Art pavilions of the Made in Moscow project

April 15 saw the opening of the selection process for Moscow entrepreneurs who will present their products in the art pavilions of the Made in Moscow market, which forms part of the city’s Summer in Moscow program.

The selection process for participation in the Made in Moscow project is open to self-employed persons, individual entrepreneurs and representatives of small, medium and large businesses that produce children’s goods, clothes and shoes, accessories, goods for home and animals and many other types of goods in the capital.

To do this, it is necessary to register with the project on the site бизнес. сделановмоскве.рф, after reading the conditions (which include having a Moscow ITN, and the location of all or part of the production process in Moscow).

A large-scale market of local goods will be organized in the main tourist sites, including Bolotnaya Square. More than 700 Moscow brands will be able to place their goods on the shelves and offer them for sale to the public. Entrepreneurs will not only present their products, but also hold themed presentation and master classes and organize prize draws and tastings.

The Made in Moscow summer market initiative is a free support scheme organized for businesses by the capital’s Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development.

The scheme allows local brands to increase their recognition among citizens and sell goods they produce in the city. From August 1 to September 9 last year, as part of the Territory of the Future. Moscow 2030 forum-festival, a Made in Moscow future market was organized on Bolotnaya Square. It was visited by more than 150,000 people, and the proceeds of the market reached 50 million rubles.

It is also worth noting the successful experience of the Made in Moscow magic market which were organized as part of the Winter in Moscow city program. The markets were held from December 20 to February 28 at seven popular venues, including Arbat and Kuznetsky Most Streets. They were visited by more than 570,000 people. Moscow entrepreneurs sold more than 50,000 different goods.

The Made in Moscow market program has become one of the key city support measures, and has been used by more than 500 Moscow brands. A rich entertainment program of more than 3,500 themed events, including master classes and fashion shows, was organized for visitors.