City Day in Suzdal in 2024. The program of events in honor of the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the city

In 2024, the celebration of the City Day in Suzdal is on a special scale: the city celebrates its 1000th anniversary. Traditionally, the City Day falls on the second Sunday of August, in the same year the anniversary celebration will last three days. What events are planned, on what dates the holiday falls, tells .

• Suzdal City Day in 2024: dates
• The program of festive events in Suzdal
• Suzdal: What kind of city is this
• Interesting facts about Suzdal

Suzdal City Day in 2024: dates

The city has been preparing for the anniversary for several years. In 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of Suzdal in 2024. The program of events was designed for 15 years: from 2015 to 2030. The culmination was the jubilee year 2024, which Suzdal celebrated with the status of the New Year’s Capital of Russia.

The City Day in 2024 will be celebrated for three days — from Friday, August 9, to Sunday, August 11

The program of festive events in Suzdal

In honor of the city’s millennium, exhibitions, festivals, scientific conferences, concerts, fairs dedicated to the anniversary are held throughout 2024.

• A unique exhibition opened in June“Russian phoenix. Suzdal Land” is the main exhibition project of the jubilee year. The exhibits for the exhibition were provided by the Museums of the Moscow Kremlin and the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve. The exhibition will run until October 1.
• In June, the First summer festival of National theaters of Russia took place (with the participation of the Alexandrinsky Theater and national theaters from Chuvashia, Mordovia, Kalmykia), as well as the festival of Russian pianist Denis Matsuev “Alma Mater: “New Names” in Suzdal”.
• In early July, the III JazzMost Music Festival was held with the participation of the famous jazz musician Alexei Kozlov and residents of his Moscow jazz club Kozlov Club.

Below is a list of upcoming festive events.

July

• July 7 and 8 — The Mariinsky Theatre in the Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery (where the historical Bolshoi Abbot’s Garden and the Apothecary’s Garden were recently opened to visitors) will present the opera “The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Virgin Fevronia”.
• July 13 is the XXII International Cucumber Festival on the territory of the Museum of Wooden Architecture and in the Pushkarskaya Sloboda hotel complex. Visitors will enjoy master classes, tastings of cucumber delicacies (for example, fried cucumbers, cucumber jam), and performances by musicians.
• July 19-21 — Golden Ring Ultra Trail 100 Cross-country running Festival It will take place on the streets of the city and its surroundings.

August

• August 1-19 — II International Festival of Sacred Music “Voices of Suzdal” (to be held in the Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery and in the temples of the city). The detailed program will be posted on the festival’s website in mid-July.
• August 3 — the annual film festival “Derbenevsky gatherings — 2024” (it will be held in the Pushkarskaya Sloboda hotel complex). Pop artists from Moscow and the Vladimir region participate in the festival. Special guests of the event are the impersonator, that is, the parodist, of the Russian artist Philip Kirkorov Sergey Silantyev and the co—author of the poet Leonid Derbenev, composer and bard Evgeny Fokin.

The main program for August 9-11, 2024

• festival of living history and combat fencing “Suzdal-grad” (on the site near the walls of the Pokrovsky Monastery);
• All-Russian Festival of Sacred Music and Bells“Summer of the Lord”: from 11:00 to 16:00 hours — on the site at the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Prince’s Yard, from 19:00 to 20:00 hours — on the Shopping Area;
• festival of folk art “Suzdal round dance” (with the participation of folklore groups, puppet theaters, circus groups);
• scenes from the opera “Ruslan and Lyudmila”; venue — Kremlin Meadow;
• the festival of Suzdal folk crafts and crafts “Summer in the keys”.

• August 16-20 — the international patchwork sewing festival “Soul of Russia” (exhibitions, fairs, art projects, master classes will be held within the framework of the festival);
• August 17 — festival of folk traditions, domestic sports and martial arts “Bogatyrskaya battle”;
• August 19 — Orthodox holiday “Apple Savior in Suzdal” in the Museum of Wooden Architecture. Contests, treats, master classes, and performances are waiting for guests.
• August 23-25 — the international bath festival “Banyafest-2024”.
• August 24 — All-Russian action “Movie Night” (in the museum complex “Suzdal Kremlin”).

Also in August 2024, musical evenings will be held every Saturday at the Pushkarskaya Sloboda hotel complex.

September

September 6-8 — “Suzdal roasts and soars”: All-Russian Congress of the National Association of Cooks and Balloonists and the XXIII Festival of Balloonists “Golden Ring of Russia”.

October

• October 5 — Euphrosyne Fair: the best producers of the agricultural and souvenir industry of Suzdal will present their products on the Trading Floor.
• October 18-20 — The International competition of musical and artistic creativity “Golden Legend”.
• October 24-27 — XVI International Forum-Festival of family dynasties, national culture, folk art and crafts “Vera. Hope. Love.”

November

• November 3 — the annual festival “Big Pushkar gathering”, historical reconstruction.
• November 29 — December 1 — The Festival of children’s and youth creativity “Laukaraz”.
• The exact date in November will be known later — the annual cultural and educational event “Night of the Arts”.

December

• December 20 — opening of the Christmas Fair at the Suzdal Shopping Square;
• December 31 — New Year’s Eve in Suzdal.

When planning trips to Suzdal and visiting anniversary events, it should be borne in mind that the event plan may change. The most up-to-date information is presented on the website of the administration of Suzdal in the section “Calendar of events”.

Suzdal: What kind of city is this

From history

For the first time, Suzdal, now a nature reserve city in the Vladimir region of Russia, was mentioned in 1024 in the “Tale of Bygone Years” as a Memorial. Where did the name of the city come from? Scientists put forward several versions: for example, from the Old Russian “szydati” (“to make from clay”) or from the words of the Baltic language group šiušus (“high, protruding, hilly”) + dalìs (“share, part, plot, strip, piece of land”).

Suzdal has left a bright mark in the history of Russia. For several centuries, it was the center of the Rostov-Suzdal, Suzdal and then Suzdal-Nizhny Novgorod principality. Handicrafts and trade developed rapidly in it

After the city joined the Moscow Principality, its heyday gradually gave way to decline. And by the middle of the 20th century, Suzdal had turned into a provincial town far from the main highways.

In modern times

The revival of interest in the city began after the 1950s, when art historian, museum worker and journalist Yuri Bychkov, while on a business trip to Suzdal, came up with the tourist route “Golden Ring”, one of the pearls of which this city became.

The city has preserved more than 200 architectural monuments and attractions — the Kremlin, churches and monasteries. The Suzdal Kremlin, as well as the Nativity Cathedral and the Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Modern Suzdal is a museum city, and tourism is the main area of employment for local residents. Therefore, many events are held in the city to attract tourists. One of the largest is the City Day.

Interesting facts about Suzdal

1. At least one church dome can be seen from anywhere in the city (due to the fact that buildings above two floors are prohibited in the city).
2. Suzdal is 123 years older than Moscow.
3. The city is considered the cucumber capital of Russia (the city of Lukhovitsy in the Moscow region also claims this title). Since 2001, the festival “Cucumber Day” has been held in Suzdal.
4. More than 60 films were shot in the city: “The Living and the Dead” (1963), “Blizzard” (1964), “The Marriage of Balzaminov” (1964), “Andrei Rublev” (1965), “The Brothers Karamazov” (film in 1967 and TV series in 2009), “My affectionate and the Gentle Beast” (1978), “Wizards” (1982), “Dead Souls” (1983), “The Tale of Fedot the Sagittarius” (2000), “The Tsar” (2008) and others.
5. Suzdal receives more than one and a half million tourists a year.

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