World Youth Festival Directorate

Fasten your seatbelts and open the window shades!

Flight has always been one of humanity's oldest dreams, a dream engineers and pilots turned into reality 🔥

Your dreams can take off too. Follow them, the way Aeroflot does every single day 🛩

Next stop in the World Youth City: the Closing Ceremony ⭐️

Less than an hour to go, and we'll tell you all about... (you'll find out very soon)

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The open dialogue with Sergey Lavrov at the IFY–2026 is in full swing as part of the Znanie.Pervye marathon! 🌏

A multipolar world, its new architecture, and international dialogue.

Together with participants, Sergey Lavrov is discussing how countries can build relations with one another and create bridges in a changing world.

Stay tuned 🤍

✨ Didn't make it to all the booths yesterday? No worries — today's your chance to catch up!

In the meantime, join our volunteers for a quick tour around our partners' spaces!
Here you'll find VK, AvtoVAZ, Sber, RZD, PSB, Roscosmos, VEB.RF, Yandex, ANO "Eurasia" and Er-Telecom!

👀 Already picked where you're heading first?

Foreigners learning to speak Russian at the IFY–2026 🇷🇺

What brought together participants from Zimbabwe, Mexico and India? They worked through a few lessons of a free Russian-as-a-foreign-language course and picked up several new words along the way!

Some repeated a word three times over, some laughed at their own pronunciation, and some were surprised by how quickly a new phrase stuck. We'd say it worked out pretty well 🔥

Watch the video to see participants from different countries give Russian a try 💓

Keep it going, we're loving every bit of it ❤️

Quick reminder about our chat-bot, where we're collecting the biggest archive of the City of World Youth!

📌 Come say hi: @mfm2026_mediabot
and save your memories with us

At the IFY–2026, we had a whole business program block from the "Senezh" Management Workshop, part of the "Russia — Land of Opportunity" Presidential platform 🍭

➡️ We talked about how to build teams and lead them in all kinds of conditions, and how AI is becoming a digital solution for public administration.

➡️ We also discussed how technology is being introduced into business and government processes, breaking down real cases and approaches.

➡️ Another key topic was youth policy as part of building a nation, and the role young people already play in that today.

Participants from different countries got to know each other, shared their management experience, and found people they wanted to keep talking to long after the lectures ended.