Language Festival

In the opening days of Russian culture Germans
As part opened in Kaliningrad Days of Culture of Russian Germans in the village of Yasnaya Polyana Nesterovskogo district went with concerts group of artists.
Among them - known folk and pop collectives region, which also will visit a number of other human settlements field, including Gvardeysk and Railway.
Days of culture holds national cultural autonomy Germans of Russian Kaliningrad region with the support of the Consulate General of Germany in Kaliningrad and German-Russian homes. Days opened in the concert hall Kaliningrad Philharmonic performance of Bach fugue and prisoner-speaking Lutheran church choir.
A week before visiting the German-Russian homes visited by representatives of its nine regional branches, which took part in another holiday - 15 - years of work at home. Days of Culture shut down on June 21, when the German-Russian house will be a big celebration.

Commentary
Victor Hoffman,
Vice-President of the Federal National Cultural Autonomy Germans RF:
-- If in 1979 the entire region, there were one million Russian Germans, today they live in the area of 8 450 people. Profits for the most part they are from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and other regions of the country and picked a place of settling the rural area: Ozersky, Pravdin-ski areas, as well as black-and-hovsk, Nesterov, Gusev and Kaliningrad. Under the current circumstances, the main objective of Russian autonomy puts the preservation of ethnic Germans, German culture and language. The task of all such activities - notably the convergence of people.

Elena Nagornyh