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Denis Kiris, chairman of the Independent Union of Actors of Stage and Screen, the head of the project
The project has two titles. One is the Drama Train and the second says that actors of stage and screen present a way of reviving the traditions, cultural and spiritual values in small towns of Russia.
We started our project two years ago in Perm Territory.
It was February and our group of actors, including Natalya Krachkovskaya, Zinaida Kireenko, Anatoly Kuznetsov and I, travelled across Perm Territory.
We travelled almost 2000 km and visited seven small towns where 8-14 thousand people live.
The effect from our tour was incredible. It appeared that for people it was such a great event, for the whole town.
When Krachkovskaya came on stage and spoke about how she acted in Gaidais comedies; when Zinaida Kireenko sang our Russian songs for 90 minutes, popular and favourites, people cried.
I stood backstage and tears fell from my eyes, I was backstage because I was an entertainer at the concert, and I saw people who cried.
It was a huge event for them. The administration of the town told us that it was great that you came, it is such an important event for us, we don't have such events.
It was in Tchaikovsky in Perm Territory. 100 thousand people live there.
It doesn't mean that there is no culture there; but such events are thought to be great there.
Thus, we didn't give up the idea and lobbied it, tried to implement it and find sponsors to realise the project.
We took part in a presidential grant tender. And we won the grant and got funding for the project.
Now for 7 months we will travel across the Central Federal District monthly.
The first place is the Bryansk Region, then the Orel Region, the Voronezh Region, the Kirov Region, and the Tula Region.
We will visit two towns in each region. Our general partner in the event is the Association of Animation Films, as our event is aimed not only at grownups, but also children, as children came with their parents, listened to and watched works by Russian authors, watched our Russian cartoons.
We will show cartoons which haven't been released yet during our concerts.