Photo credit: Road to Yalta / youtube.com
The results of the Road to Yalta Festival were summed up the day before, on May 2, TASS reports. The winner of the competition was the Indonesian singer Laurentius Raymond Junior Pardamean. The German soloist Tino Eisbrenner became second. Mongolian singer Zayat Batzengeliin and singer from Zimbabwe Yvonne Sauramba rounded out the top three.
The final gala concert took place in the Kremlin. Veterans of the Great Patriotic War became its guests of honor.
The work of the jury was headed by Russian pop star Lev Leshchenko. The winners were also determined by the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoi, the head of the Kurchatov Institute Mikhail Kovalchuk, Russian performers Denis Maidanov, singer Zara, their Italian colleague Luca Minnelli and others.
The total prize fund was five million rubles. In total, according to the organizers, they received about 200 applications from 56 countries.
As part of the 2023 festival, 15 singers who passed the qualifying stage performed songs about the Great Patriotic War in their native languages. At the gala concert, the participants sang them together with the stars of Russian music and cinema.
The Road to Yalta festival began in 2019, when it took place in the Crimean city. The project is aimed at preserving historical memory and glorifying the Soviet warrior-liberator. 46 foreign performers have taken part in the festival over the years of its existence. Over four years, the organizers have accepted over 900 applications from 60 countries.
The idea of the festival and the level of performers were highly appreciated by viewers from different countries, tens of millions of people around the world watched the festival events on TV and on the Internet.
Russkiy Mir
