The Year of Ural Rock will end on January 12 at the Youth Palace

The final festival of the Year of Ural Rock, dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Sverdlovsk Rock Club, will be held on January 12 at the Palace of Youth. The event will become a kind of bridge between generations: cult Ural bands, new wave musicians and participants of special projects will perform on one stage. This is reported by the Department of information policy of the Sverdlovsk region.

Headliners of the festival will be the groups “Trek”, “April March” and “Nastya”. It is noteworthy that “Trek” and “April March” return to the stage especially for “Rock Fest” – the bands resume concert activity after a long break. The company will consist of bright representatives of the modern Yekaterinburg scene: “Attention Brusnik!”, “Patrick Cash”, “Jin” and other artists.

The festival will be hosted by Nikolai Rotov (ex-participant of “Sense Hallucinations”) and Alexander Pantykin (leader of “Urfin Jus”, one of the founders of the Ural rock scene). Both musicians will also perform concerts. For Alexander Pantykin, the evening will be especially significant: on the festival day, January 12, he will celebrate his 69th anniversary on stage.

An important part of the program will be the presentation of the tribute “Old New Rock” – a musical dedication to the Sverdlovsk rock club. The first part of the album will appear on digital platforms on December 11: it includes modern interpretations of the hits “Trek”, “Urfin Jus”, “April March”, “Reflections”, “Nautilus Pompilius”, “Nasty”, “Cocktail”, “Association”, “V. Kikabidze Waterfall” and other iconic bands. The remaining two parts of the project will be released in 2027.

The choice of site is not accidental: The Palace of Youth is a place with a special history for Ural rock. It was here in 1988 and 1989 that the III and IV festivals of the Sverdlovsk Rock Club took place. Another point of attraction for fans of culture appeared near the Palace in June 2026: a monument to director Alexei Balabanov, the author of the cult films Brother and Brother 2, was installed on the square in front of the central entrance.

The organizer of the festival is the Center for Support of Cultural Heritage and Traditions “Moneystone”. The project is implemented within the framework of the tasks of the national project “Family”.

Earlier, “MK-Ural” wrote that one of the first events of the Year of Ural Rock in the Sverdlovsk region was the festival “Old New Rock”, held on January 11 at the Ural CCC and opened a series of events in part of the 40th anniversary of the Sverdlovsk rock club. A little earlier, the music of Sverdlovsk rock bands sounded in the Historical Park, where the rock-musical Ice Town worked during the holidays.