ABOUT THE

FESTIVAL

2020
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THE SPASSKAYA TOWER FESTIVAL
IS ONE OF THE LARGEST
INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL
PROJECTS OF RUSSIA

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 HISTORY OF THE FESTIVAL

• The Festival saw light in 2007.

• It’s name the Spasskaya Tower
Military Tattoo got in 2009.
• Since 2013 the Festival’s motto has
been “Reviving traditions,
retaining history”.
• Participants of the Festival are
some of the world’s best military
bands and honor guard units,
dance companies and artistic
ensembles.
• 160 groups from 54 countries
have taken part in the Festival over
12 years of its history.

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THE SPASSKAYA TOWER FESTIVAL
IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S BEST
MILITARY TATTOOS

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 MILITARY TATTOO

• Since May 2010, the Spasskaya Tower Festival has been

part of the International Association of Tattoo Organizers
(IATO).
• Among other IATO members are the Edinburgh Military
Tattoo, Berlin Military Music Festival, Royal Nova Scotia
International Tattoo, the Netherlands Military Tattoo and
others
• In December 2019, the Spasskaya Tower Military Tattoo
became a full-fledge member of the Asian Marching Band
Confederation.
• Among the guests of the Russian Festival there have been
heads of the Edinburgh, Bremen, Basel, Dutch, Norwegian
and other military tattoos.
• As of 2019 the Spasskaya Tower Festival is rated among
the three best military tattoos of the world, being highly
appraised both for its creativity and organization.

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MILITARY TATTOO

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THE ROYAL EDINBURGH
MILITARY TATTOO
• Date of foundation – 1950 (70 years)
• Number of performances – 24 shows
• Number of artists – 1 200 participants
• Audience attending ~ 9 000 people
• Audience per year – 220 000 people
• TV audience – 100 000 000 people
WORLD’S LARGEST MILITARY
TATTOOS
BASEL TATTOO
• Date of foundation – 2006 (14 years)
• Number of performances – 15 shows
• Number of artists – 1 000 participants
• Audience attending ~ 8 000 people
• Audience per year – 120 000 people
• TV audience – 450 000 people
THE SPASSKAYA TOWER
MILITARY TATTOO
• Date of foundation – 2007 (13 years)
• Number of performances – 11 shows
• Number of artists – 1 500 participants
• Audience attending ~ 7 500 people
• Audience – 90 000 people
• TV and online audience – over 7 mln
people
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THE SPASSKAYA TOWER FESTIVAL
IS A MULTIDIMENSIONAL PROJECT

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 FESTIVAL PROGRAM

• THE SPASSKAYA TOWER FESTIVAL IS A GENUINE

MANIFESTATION OF CULTURE

• With Red Square as its central venue, the Festival is held

annually at the end of the summer season (end of
August/beginning of September) in Moscow.
• Along with the evening shows, program of the Festival
features a great number of side events and special projects,
including big marching parade on VDNH and performances
staged by the Festival’s foreign participants in Moscow parks
and railway stations.
• All year round the Spasskaya Tower Festival is actively
engaged in Moscow’s cultural life, supporting events featuring
participation by Russian military and ministerial bands, as well
as carrying out its own projects, e.g. the Children and Youth
Wind Band Contest (in May), the Military Bands in the City
Parks project (form May till August) and single performances
onstage of different city venues.

• ALL SIDE EVENTS OF THE FESTIVAL ARE FREE OF CHARGE

AND ARE AWARDED TO THE CITIZENS ON BEHALF OF THE
SPASSKAYA TOWER FESTIVAL

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 FESTIVAL SPECIAL PROJECTS

THE FESTIVAL IS ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN REVIVING

CHILDREN AND YOUTH BAND MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA

• The Children and Youth Wind Band Contest is held annually

in Moscow’s Zaryadye Park at the end of May, immediately
before the celebration of the International Children’s Day.

• In 2019 about 1 500 young musicians from the Central Federal

District took part in the contest. All in all, there were 28 children
and youth wind bands, drummer and majorette groups.

• At the end of the contest all its participants are combined into
the Spasskaya Tower Children and Youth Massed Wind Band.
In 2019 it featured 32 bands and 7 choirs.

• The idea of creating the children massed band belongs to the

Deputy Prime Minister (2012-2020) Olga Golodets and
Lieutenant General Valery Khalilov.

• Winners of the contest are given an opportunity to show all their

skills and talents at the Children and Youth Wind Band
Festival held annually onstage of the Festival’s Children
Playground within the days of the Festival.
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 FESTIVAL SPECIAL PROJECTS

THE FESTIVAL IS ALSO ENGAGED IN REVIVING AN

OLD-TIME RUSSIAN TRADITION OF MILITARY BANDS
PERFORMING IN THE CITY PARKS AND GARDENS
• Annually (since 2016) during the spring/summer
season the Directorate of the Festival carries out its
Military Bands in the City Parks special project.
• Featuring participation of the Russian Military Band
Music Service, the program enjoys support provided
by the Russian Ministry of Defense and Moscow’s
Department of Culture.
• Every Saturday along the whole spring/summer
season some of the best military bands perform
onstage of the city open-air venues.
• The 2019 run of the project saw 16 concerts in 14
parks.
• They took place in the Alexander Garden, Victory Park
on Poklonnay Hill, Gorkiy Park, Ermitazh Garden,
Muzeon and other popular places of the city.

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ALL THE GUESTS WILL SPEND
QUALITY TIME AT THE FESTIVAL

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 FESTIVAL ON RED SQUARE

THE EVENT PROGRAM OF THE FESTIVAL includes:

• DAYTIME PROGRAM with the Spasskaya Tower for

Children activities held at the Children Playground and
shows on the horse-riding arena. All events are free.
• EVENING PROGRAM with the Festival’s evening shows
on the main stage, performances on the horse-riding
arena and activities at the Children playground.

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 SPECIAL PROJECTS, SIDE
EVENTS

THE SPASSKAYA TOWER FOR CHILDREN

• It is being carried out within the Festival’s main program since 2013.
• Chief target audiences are children aged from 4 to 13.
• Children’s playground is a unique educational and entertainment space
featuring various master classes, contests and other interactive activities.
• All activities of the Children’s playground are grouped to cover different
aspects, with history, military traditions, culture and music being at the top.
All the activities are carried out in separate topic-related pavilions.
• To attract additional audiences extra topic-related programs are being
developed including the Sports Day, Music Day, Professions Day, Horse Day,
etc.
• The Children and Youth Wind Band Festival has already become a well-
established part of the Spasskaya Tower for Children featuring performances
of some of the best young musicians from all over Russia. Since its creation
in 2014, over 100 ensembles from 24 regions of Russia as well as from
abroad have performed beneath the Kremlin walls.

• In 2015 the Children and Youth Honor Guards Interregional Competition

become part of the Festival’s main program, with more than 50 teams from
25 regions of Russia already shown their precise ceremonial skills. 14
SPECIAL PROJECTS, SIDE
EVENTS

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 SPECIAL PROJECTS, SIDE
EVENTS

THE KREMLIN EQUESTRIAN SCHOOL

• In 2019 the Festival horse-riding arena celebrated its first tenth anniversary.
• Since 2007 the Kremlin Equestrian School has been partnering with the
Spasskaya Tower Festival being responsible for the equestrian program of
each Festival’s production.

• Following events are carried out within the sports and entertaining program
on the horse-riding arena:
• children and youth show-jumping competition for the prize of the
Spasskaya Tower Festival;
• traditional children and youth acrobatic trick riding (jigitovka) competition;
• performances by equestrian and acrobatic artists;
• performances by famous international groups presenting their colorful and
vibrant show programs.
• Everyday audiences of the horse-riding arena have an opportunity to witness
performances presented by the Kremlin Equestrian School, permanent
participant of the Festival, as well the world-famous Cavalry Escort of the
Presidential Regiment and unique Children Group of Cavalry Ceremonial of
the Kremlin Equestrian School.
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SPECIAL PROJECTS, SIDE
EVENTS

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 FESTIVAL SIDE EVENTS

Every year the Spasskaya Tower Military Tattoo offers

a number of must-have events. Featuring participation of
the Festival foreign guests, they are held at some of the
most iconic places of Moscow :
• Big Spasskaya Tower marching parade on VDNH. In
2019 over 40 thousand of Moscow citizens and guests
witnessed this spectacular show.
• In 2019 Russian and foreign participants of the Festival
staged performances in seven city parks and five
railway stations.

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 FESTIVAL SIDE EVENTS

In 2019 the Spasskaya Tower Festival paid special honors

to the elderly citizens of the capital, organizing a special
Moscow Longevity Day on Red Square.

872 participants of the Moscow Longevity program,

carried out by the Mayor of Moscow, sang a song by
Isaac Dunaevskiy considered to be the official hymn of the
capital. It’s worth noting that the number of the choir
vocalists coincided with the actual age of the city, as in
2019 Moscow celebrated its 872th anniversary.

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OVER THE YEARS INTEREST
TO THE SPASSKAYA TOWER MILITARY
TATTOO ON BEHALF
OF THE AUDIENCES, PARTICIPANTS AND
MEDIA HAS NEVER SEIZED GROWING

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AUDIENCES OF THE FESTIVAL

• More than 500 000 people *

visit Red Square during the
Festival (including daytime
activities)

• Annually about 90 000 people*

become audience to the Festival

• The target audiences of the

Festival* are:
• Moscow citizens
• Aged from 25-60
• With average income or above
average
• With active social position

* - according to the Festival Directorate

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 GUESTS OF HONOR

• Every year the Spasskaya Tower

Festival welcomes among its
guests officials representing
various countries, world famous
artists as well as public figures.

• Members of different European

royal families , including Prince
Michael of Kent, Prince Joachim of
Denmark, Princess Stéphanie of
Monaco, have already been
among the tattoo’s guests of
honor.

• Every year leaders of the world’s

best military tattoos attend the
breathtaking shows of the Festival.

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FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS

• Each run of the Spasskaya Tower

Festival always scores FULL
HOUSE in terms of the
AUDIENCE AND ATTENTION on
behalf of the PARTICIPANTS
AND MEDIA

• 30 military bands and artistic

ensembles form 12 countries, as
well as two international groups,
being the Celtic Massed Pipes and
Drums and the Celtic Dance
Team, became part of the 2019
Festival production.

• 1922 participants featuring

musicians, soloists, dancers,
conductors, flag wavers and
riders, presented their skills
throughout the 2019 production
onstage main venue and horse-
riding arena.
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FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS

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 FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS

• Since 2018 the Festival features a DAYTIME

SHOW

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THE SPASSKAYA TOWER FESTIVAL IS ONE
OF THE MOST VIBRANT AND
BREATHTAKING CULTURAL PROJECTS OF
RUSSIA

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COLORS OF THE FESTIVAL

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FESTIVAL IN FACES

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 FESTIVAL CELEBRITIES

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SEE YOU AT THE
FESTIVAL!
THE SPASSKAYA TOWER FESTIVAL
DIRECTORATE
PHONE/FAX: +7 (495) 120-28-82
INFO@SPASSTOWER.RU
WWW.SPASSTOWER.RU

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