The program of performances of artists on scarlet sails. History and traditions of the Scarlet Sails holiday
20:00-22:00 - gathering of graduates and their guests on Palace Square and spectators on the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island.
22:00 - the beginning of the theatrical prologue on the Palace Square.
22:20 - the beginning of concert programs on the Palace Square and the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island.
00:40 - musical fireworks show on the Neva.
01:10 - 04:00 - continuation of the concert program on Palace Square and the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island.
The program of the holiday "Scarlet Sails 2017" will be traditional: concerts on Palace Square (entrance for graduates by invitation) and on the Spit of Vasilevsky Island for all guests and residents of St. Petersburg, as well as an unforgettable musical light and pyrotechnic show in the Neva water area, which will culminate in the appearance of an old brigantine under scarlet sails.
List of participants in the ball of graduates "Scarlet Sails 2017"
The most fashionable artists will take part in the holiday, the list of which was compiled taking into account the wishes of the graduates. Headliner the festival will become a group " Mummy Troll". In addition, for students on "Scarlet Sails 2017" will speak Surganova and orchestra, Artic & Asti, Marseille, Max Barskikh, Alexander Panayotov and the Silver group.
Leading festival will again become a showman Ivan Urgant and TV presenter of Channel Five Dasha Alexandrova!
Important information
Entrance to the Palace Square to watch the festive concert will be available only to those who have invitation cards! For the same category of people, viewing of the light and pyrotechnic show will be available on the Palace Embankment (from the Palace Bridge to the Trinity Bridge), which is accessed through the Palace Square.
Access without an invitation card is limited to the following areas:
- Palace Square;
- Palace embankment;
- Trinity Bridge (closed to everyone);
- Peter and Paul Fortress (closed to everyone);
- Green space Strelki V.O. (closed to everyone).
Transport on the night of "Scarlet Sails"
Metro
At night "Scarlet Sails" from 23 to 24 June 2017, the St. Petersburg metro will operate without interruption.
All metro stations will be open for passengers to enter and exit (to enter the Dostoevskaya station, you will need to use the vestibule of Vladimirskaya, to enter the Spasskaya station, you must use the vestibules of the Sennaya Ploshchad or Sadovaya stations). The movement of trains will be carried out at increased intervals.
Please note that in the period from 02:00 to 04:30, only tokens can be purchased at metro ticket offices, activation of electronic payments will not be available.
Night buses
On the night of June 23-24, 2017, from 00:00 to 06:00, night buses operate on routes No. 8, 12, 56, 77, 80, 93, 106, 114, 130, 142, 154 with a traffic interval of 30 minutes .
Get invitation cards, without which it will be impossible to get to the Palace Square this evening, students will be able from June 20 to June 22, 2017 in their schools.
The holiday will begin traditionally at 10 pm. Petersburg subway during the holiday will work around the clock.
The movement of watercraft along the Neva will be limited due to the arrival of a sailboat - a symbol of the holiday, as well as the installation of pyrotechnic structures.
Holiday last year "Scarlet Sails" took place June 25th. Approximately 30 thousand high school graduates took part in it.
Today, June 23, 2017, 3,640 graduates of schools in the Leningrad Region will become guests of the Scarlet Sails 2017 holiday.
For the 13th time on the night of June 23-24, 2017, the holiday of St. Petersburg graduates "Scarlet Sails" will be held in an updated format. The theme of this year will be the future - graduates will talk about the world that today's graduates will create. The holiday will be hosted by Ivan Urgant and Dasha Aleksandrova.
"The future starts today!" - this is the motto of this holiday of graduates, the press service of the Fifth Channel, who are the organizers, notes. - To implement the idea, the latest technical potential and the best specialists of the two capitals were involved.
A grandiose stage (see photo) with static and moving screens, and a special cable car for aerial theater will be installed on Palace Square. Thanks to the light and technical tricks, the performance promises to be multi-layered and much more voluminous in order to give a futuristic picture of this world. Several colorful performances will tell about art, space, poetry and the nature of the future, which is impossible without respect for the present.
Holiday "Scarlet Sails" will begin June 23 at 22.00 on Palace Square from a bright theatrical prologue. After the official opening and the traditional blow to the bell, popular Russian performers will take the stage.
The program of the ball of graduates "Scarlet Sails 2017"
20:00-22:00 - gathering of graduates and their guests on Palace Square and spectators on the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island.
22:00 - the beginning of the theatrical prologue on the Palace Square.
22:20 - the beginning of concert programs on the Palace Square and the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island.
00:40 - musical fireworks show on the Neva, comandir.com reports.
01:10 - 04:00 - continuation of the concert program on Palace Square and the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island.
The Scarlet Sails 2017 holiday program will be traditional: concerts on Palace Square (entry for graduates by invitation) and on the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island for all guests and residents of St. brigantines under scarlet sails.
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List of participants in the ball of graduates "Scarlet Sails 2017"
The most fashionable artists will take part in the holiday, the list of which was compiled taking into account the wishes of the graduates, comandir.com reports. The headliner of the festival will be the Mumiy Troll group. In addition, Surganova and the orchestra, Artic & Asti, Marseille, Max Barskikh, Alexander Panayotov and the Silver group will perform for students at Scarlet Sails 2017.
Showman Ivan Urgant and TV presenter of the Fifth Channel Dasha Alexandrova will again become the hosts of the festival.
It will be impossible to get invitation cards without which it will be impossible to get to Palace Square this evening, students will be able to visit their schools.
The celebration will traditionally start at 10 pm. The St. Petersburg Metro will operate around the clock during the holiday.
The movement of watercraft along the Neva will be limited due to the arrival of a sailboat - a symbol of the holiday, as well as the installation of pyrotechnic structures.
Last year, the Scarlet Sails holiday was held on June 25, comandir.com reports. Approximately 30 thousand high school graduates took part in it.
How to get to the Scarlet Sails holiday
All graduates of St. Petersburg schools, as well as their parents, will receive free invitation tickets to the Scarlet Sails. Traditionally, medalists and winners of Olympiads among graduates of schools in the Leningrad Region and other regions receive invitations to the holiday. All of them will also be able to attend the celebration with their parents or legal representatives.
The banks of the Neva, with the exception of Palace Embankment, are open to everyone, but for those who want to take a closer look at the show, it is better to come early to take comfortable seats on the embankment.
How transport will work on the night of June 23-24
On the night of Scarlet Sails, there will be severe traffic restrictions in the city center, so it is better to leave the cars at home. But the subway will run all night.
The movement of trains from 00.00 to 05.30 will be carried out at extended intervals, the press service of the St. Petersburg subway said. Passage at the station on the night of June 23-24 will be carried out with tokens and travel documents.
From 00.30 to 02.30, only the sale of tokens will be carried out at the ticket offices of the metro, for this time the activation of Internet payments and the sale of tickets based on the BSC will be stopped.
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In 2017, the holiday of graduates of St. Petersburg, which has been called "Scarlet Sails" for many years, will please with an abundance of events. The festive program will also be filled with pleasant surprises.
On the night of June 23-24, the traditional holiday of graduates "Scarlet Sails" will be held in the Northern capital of Russia. The main events will unfold in the waters of the Neva, namely in the area of the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island. Along with this, events will also take place on Palace Square, where a large-scale concert with the participation of Russian celebrities starts at ten o'clock in the evening.
The large-scale and very colorful holiday "Scarlet Sails" will begin on June 23 at 22:00 on Palace Square with a bright theatrical prologue.
After the official opening and the traditional blow to the bell, popular Russian performers will take the stage. As in previous years, their names were chosen as a result of a survey among high school students in St. Petersburg schools. This evening, Surganova and the orchestra, Serebro, Artic&Asti, Marseille, Max Barskikh and Alexander Panayotov will perform for the graduates. The headliner of the concert on Dvortsovaya, as previously reported, will be the group of Ilya Lagutenko "Mumiy Troll". The hosts, as in the past year, will be Ivan Urgant and Dasha Aleksandrova.
A few hours later, namely at 00:40, in the darkest moment of the St. Petersburg white night, a large-scale pyrotechnic show will begin in the Neva water area.
As in previous years, an unforgettable spectacle is expected, the culmination of which will be the appearance in the span of the Trinity Bridge of a beautiful dream symbol - a brigantine under scarlet sails, after which the holiday is named.
The musical suite accompanying the show will combine different genres and styles in the most unexpected performance. The use of exotic and ethnic instruments (luminous electric violin, tabla, jambey) will create a unique atmosphere of a mysterious future. The musical themes of Dunayevsky, Gliere and Solovyov-Sedov, traditional for Scarlet Sails, will also be revealed in a completely new way. The compositions “Evening Song”, “This Big World” and the unspoken anthem of the students of Leningrad University “Brigantine” will be performed by opera singers Vladimir Tselebrovsky and Methodie Bujor, the duet of Svetlana Surganova and the lead singer of the Tequilajazzz group Evgeny Fedorov.
It should be recalled that for security reasons the entrance to Palace Embankment and Palace Square is open only to graduates - this year more than 30,000 young Petersburgers graduating from school will receive two invitation cards. Tickets will be distributed free of charge in educational institutions, where they will arrive two days before the holiday.
It is also important to point out that the live broadcast of "Scarlet Sails-2017" will traditionally be shown by "Channel 5". It starts at exactly 22:00 on Friday, June 23rd.
Traditionally, on Saturday, the closest to the longest white night, a holiday of graduates "Scarlet Sails" is held in St. Petersburg.
The celebration consists of two parts: a big concert with the participation of popular performers on the Palace Square and a lighting pyrotechnical musical multimedia show in the Neva water area. The culmination of the touching spectacle is the passage along the embankments of a brigantine with scarlet sails. It symbolizes the hope of Russia for the younger generation, on which the future of St. Petersburg and the country depends.
The first "Scarlet Sails" took place in 1968, but since 1979 the holiday was not held until 2005. The main organizer of the holiday is the government of St. Petersburg, the general partner is the joint-stock bank Rossiya. Among the guests of honor of the holiday: Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
Date and place of the Scarlet Sails holiday
This year the festival will take place on the night of Friday 23 June to Saturday 24 June. The main events will take place on Palace Square and on the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island. A ship with scarlet sails will appear on the Neva at 00:50.
Program of events "Scarlet Sails - 2017"
22:00 gathering of graduates and their guests on Palace Square and spectators on the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island
22:00 start of the theatrical prologue on Palace Square
22:20 the beginning of concerts on Palace Square and the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island
00:40 musical light and pyrotechnic show on the Neva
01:10 - 04:00 continuation of the concert program on Palace Square and the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island
It is expected that such Russian performers as Mumiy Troll, Serebro, Surganova and Orchestra, Artik & Asti, singers Marseille, Max Barskikh, Alexander Panayotov, Grigory Leps will perform. Ivan Urgant and Dasha Aleksandrova will be the hosts.
How to get to the Scarlet Sails holiday in 2017, where to buy a ticket or invitation
You can get to Palace Square only by invitation, which is given free of charge at schools to graduates and their parents. "Scarlet Sails" is waiting not only for graduates from St. Petersburg, but also from the capital. The rest of St. Petersburg residents and guests of the city will be able to join the celebration on the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island, where an entertainment program is planned, and in other places.
The work of transport on the night of the holiday "Scarlet Sails - 2017"
From midnight to six in the morning, buses will run on routes No. 8, 12, 56, 77, 80, 93, 106, 114, 130, 142, 154 with a half-hour interval. On the day of the holiday "Scarlet Sails - 2017" in St. Petersburg, the metro will work all night without a break.
Published on 23.06.17 10:24"Scarlet Sails", St. Petersburg 2017: the organizers of the holiday have prepared a grandiose show for graduates.
"Scarlet Sails 2017": date
Perhaps the most famous celebration of the graduates "Scarlet Sails" 2017 will take place in St. Petersburg this night. This is the only Russian holiday that has entered the register of world tourism events. Last year it was recognized as the best city event according to the prestigious European Best Event Awards.
This year, the beginning of the holiday on Palace Square is scheduled for 20.00 Moscow time. At the same time, the beginning of the show in the Neva waters with the participation of everyone's favorite intcbatch a brig with scarlet sails at 00.40 already on June 24, 2017.
history of the holiday
For the first time this holiday was held in Leningrad in 1968. After that, there was an annual tradition of passing a ship under scarlet sails along the Neva in memory of the ship "Secret" from the extravaganza of Alexander Grin. In 1979, the tradition was interrupted, but was resumed in 2005.
Every year, up to three million viewers come to the Scarlet Sails holiday, and anyone can watch the TV broadcast of the holiday.
"Scarlet Sails 2017": the program of the holiday on Palace Square
Traditionally, the Scarlet Sails holiday consists of two stages: a big concert on Palace Square and a grand show in the Neva.
The concert at the Palace Square will begin this year at 20:00 Moscow time. First, the winners of the city-wide competition "Scarlet Sails" will perform before the graduates, then the star participants will take the stage.
The big festive program will start at 22.00 Moscow time. The groups "Surganova and Orchestra", Artik & Asti, "Serebro", "Marseille", performers Max Barskikh, Alexander Panayotov, and others will perform in front of yesterday's schoolchildren, and the Mumiy Troll group will become the headliner of the program. On this day, Grigory Leps is also expected to perform.
The hosts of the evening will be Ivan Urgant and Dasha Aleksandrova.
The concert of the main stage of the celebration will continue all night.
The program of the show in the waters of the Neva
A colorful multimedia show on the Neva will begin at 00.40 Moscow time. The guests will see the Swedish sailing ship Tre Kronor ("Three Crowns"), which for the seventh time will pass along the Neva under scarlet sails.
The organizers have prepared many surprises for the guests of the holiday, both pyrotechnical and musical, one of which will be the unique design of the Trinity Bridge.
How to get to the "Scarlet Sails"?
Graduates of St. Petersburg schools, their teachers and accompanying persons will be able to get on the "Scarlet Sails" if they have special free invitations issued to them. Only in the presence of such passages will it be possible to get to Palace Square and Palace Embankment. For everyone else, the entrance to these parts of the historical center of the Northern capital will be closed. But the opposite bank of the Neva will be open to everyone.
Metro work
During the holiday "Scarlet Sails 2017" in the center of St. Petersburg, traffic restrictions will be introduced, so it's better to use the metro that evening, which will work all night. Passage at the station will be carried out with tokens and travel documents.
In addition, free buses will operate in the city at night, going at about half an hour intervals to the nearest metro stations.
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