Director Vyacheslav Kulaev speaks about his work with the participants of the Alina-2025 festival

Vyacheslav Kulaev, director of the Alina-2025 festival, shared how young athletes were told about the exploits of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War.

"We often have small children participating in the festival. If a child is seven years old, he may not fully understand what happened. But when you work with them and tell them that a boy or girl about your age did certain things — heroic, difficult, dangerous — and for many of them it ended tragically, of course, they understand. We talk about the children of war, the children of the home front. There are a lot of facts, heroic deeds, hundreds of children who are real heroes." 

The specialist noted that during the preparation for working with the participants, he also gained new knowledge.

"This was the first direction of developing numbers, because when I studied the material, in addition to their biographies, I also studied the family, the environment in which they grew up, how they were raised. I discovered a lot of interesting things for myself."

In addition, he explained what makes this festival different from the previous ones.

"If you look at the festival that we are doing now, it may be a little unusual. We used a slightly different language — modern, which is close primarily to a child, a teenager. And at the level of emotions and perception of those events, we made numbers dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory." 

This is the fifth time Vyacheslav Kulaev has participated in the Alina festival as a director.