Grushinsky festival

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Grushinsky festival (Russian: Грушинский фестиваль) - an annual Russian bard songs festival, from 1968 takes places near city of Samara, on Mastryk lakes. (Valeri Grushin, in whose memory the festival is named was a student who died during backcountry trip saving his drowning friends).

Every year, there are tens and hundrends of thousands of people who love bard songs coming to the Grushinsky festival. During the times of USSR, the formal oversight of the festival was performed by VLKSM. From the late 1990s, the festival began to become commercialized and lost its orientation to the bard songs.