Pyatigorsk is preparing for the “Lermontovsky seasons-2026”

Pyatigorsk is preparing for the traditional poetry festival "Lermontovskie Seasons-2026". The event will be held from October 14 to 16 in the Central City Library. The program includes competitive auditions for readers and musicians, views in the nomination “Fine Art”, as well as a new heading – “Oral essay”.

Within the framework of the latter, the participants will have to prepare their own monologue-discussion about why the Lermontov lines are still relevant today. In the middle of autumn, Pyatigorsk traditionally honors the poet, whose fate is inextricably linked with the city: this year marks the 212th birthday of Lermontov. This date is dedicated to the annual Pyatigorsk “Lermontov seasons”.

Both professional and amateur groups and individual performers are invited to participate in the multigenre festival. The jury will include cultural and art figures, teachers, heads of creative associations and journalists.

Earlier it was reported that the Kislovodsk library named after Solzhenitsyn became a co-executor of the presidential grant for literary tourism.