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“Springs of Vyoshenskaya” Marked the 30th Anniversary

On August 21, 2017, a festive jubilee concert dedicated to the amateur literary association “Springs of Vyoshenskaya” working in Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya for 30 years took place in the excursion and exhibition centre “People’s House”.

During this time, a small literary club of lovers of artistic expression has grown into an interregional writers’ association “Verkhny Don” (The Upper Don), which brought together literary intellectuals from the nearest districts of the Rostov, Volgograd and Voronezh regions.

Many poets and novelists from the Rostov and Volgograd regions gathered for the festival. The members of the meeting were literary studios “Seventh Heaven” and “Primroses” from Uryupinsk, a literary club “Living Spring” of Surovikino, a literary studio “Nadezhda” from Serafimovich, and literary associations of writers “Larks” of the Verkhnedonskoy District and “Small Bench” of the Bokovsky District.

The meeting was organized by Grigory Fyodorovich Rychnev, Head of the writers’ association “Verkhny Don” (The Upper Don), a member of the Writers’ Union of Russia and the editor of the almanac “Verkhny Don”, and Sergey Ivanovich Slepukhin, leader of the literary club “Zakulisye”(Backstage) of the Vyoshensky District Palace of Culture.

The most active members of the literary association were awarded Letters of Thanks for the long-term creative work and participation in the literary life of the Upper Don.

The holiday concert opened with the performance of the Rostov Region anthem. The Uryupinsk song ethnographical group sang old Cossack songs, which were a good present for the heroes of the day.

The meeting was marked with one more important event: the eighth issue of the literary almanac “Verkhny Don” (edited from 2005) was released. It was the result of the joint work of the association.

The meeting was followed by visiting the exhibitions of the Museum-Reserve of M.A.Sholokhov.

Alla Popova