On 21 October, a large-scale event joined over 800 RANEPA St. Petersburg first-year students, their friends and families as well as the honored guests. Traditionally, each year a Festival concept is different, this time it was music and masterpieces of renowned Russian composers.

The Festival is aimed at adapting and immersing in a new student journey, encourages to unleash creativity and becomes an excellent start into a vibrant student life.

For over 1,5 months our freshmen in 7 faculties have trained team work skills and hard prepared under support of upper-year students to present their unique, vivid performances to show how creative and united they are. The audience really enjoyed a magnificent impressive show. 

The Faculty of Social Technologies team, which performed Sergey Rachmaninov show, was awarded with the Grand Prix.

We congratulate all the winners and participants of the First-Year Student Festival 2024 and wish them to continue discovering their talents, offering creative ideas and making the world around a little better. Each of us can do this!

It was a great pleasure for me to attend the Festival. I’m twice as pleasing because, firstly, 166 students, including 47 freshmen, from Kazakhstan have studied at RANEPA St. Petersburg. Therefore, an important mission today is to support our students. Secondly, I graduated from the Presidential Academy, so I’m eager to see interesting performances today… If I were now a student again, I would definitely take part in such a Festival with great pleasure!

Dmitry Mikhno, Consul General of the Republic of Kazakhstan in St. Petersburg