VK Fest brought together a record 175,000 viewers

On the weekend of July 23-24, Gorky Park in Moscow and 300th Anniversary Park in St. Petersburg turned into a meeting place for famous artists, actors, bloggers, clippers, athletes and popular music fans. More than 80 musicians performed their hits for the festival guests. Among them are Basta, Hands Up, Zveri, PHARAOH, OG Buda, Jony, Klava Koka, HammAli & Navai, Slava Marlow, Yegor Creed and other popular artists. The roles of hosts of VK Fest were played by Vladimir Marconi, Ida Galich and other celebrities – throughout the festival they commented on what was happening, communicated with the stars and pulled gifts.

The Clippers also performed on the main stage of VK Fest – GAVRILINA, DAVA, Danya Milokhin, Yegor Ship, ESMI, KARA KROSS, Tim Akimov, Khabib and other Clip Jam participants. On July 24, the results of the first “VK Clips Award” were announced there: 14 best clippers were awarded in 12 categories – from “funniest” or “family” blogger to “pierced” and “brilliant”. The best clippers of 2022 are Lera Izumrud, Nastya Tuman, Alexey Stolyarov, Sergey Bezrukov and others. The winners received commemorative awards from the short vertical video service and special tags in their profile.

On the Place des Médailles of the Sirius Olympic Park, MakSim, DJ SMASH, Ramil’ and the group BREAD sang their songs for the guests of the VK Fest. The festival host at Sirius was Stas Yarushin.

VK Fest guests also participated in unusual activities and visited more than 330 theme areas of the festival in three cities. For example, in the VK Music area of ​​Gorky Park, everyone participated in the professional recording of a track under the strict guidance of ST and Roma Bestseller; we tried ourselves in the role of a true opinion leader.

Not without encounters with your favorite idols. In the blogger area, Liza Anokhina, Lina Podluzhnaya, Nekoglai, Sasha Montag, Senya and Apricot talked with fans and took selfies. In VK Music area – Antokha MS, Basta, By India, PHARAOH, FEDUK, HammAli & Navai and many more.

With the support of the Russian society “Knowledge”, a conference hall was also organized for visitors to the festival, where eminent speakers and experts addressed the audience. Nikolai Drozdov, Sergey Burunov, Alexander Tsypkin, Sergey Bezrukov, Mikhail Labkovsky, Sergey Garmash and other celebrities personally discussed with the guests of the conference hall on various topics.

Konstantin Sidorkov, director of music and event projects at VK: “We are very happy that after two long years of the pandemic, VK Fest has finally gone offline and been held in three cities at once, becoming the biggest music event this year. The festival has become the meeting place for 175,000 people: guests, musicians, clippers, bloggers, athletes, comedians… For two days, they found themselves in a big common party that loves good music, activities unusual events and the summer heat. It was the biggest event in VK history and we will definitely repeat it on a bigger scale. It was legendary. See you at VK Fest next year.

Before the start of each festival day in Gorky Park, performers and guest stars walked along the blue carpet – more than 100 celebrities in total. Among them are ANNA ASTI, DABRO, Danya Milokhin, GAYAZOV$ BROTHER$, Lolita & Costa Lacoste, Nikolai Baskov, Olga Buzova, Olga Seryabkina and Polina Gagarina. Along the way, the guests were greeted by famous presenters: Alla Mikheeva, Ilya Sobolev, Ida Galich and Nastya Ivleeva. The blue carpet broadcast could be watched in the VKontakte community and on television – exclusively on the MUZ-TV channel, which acted as the official media partner of the festival.

The participants of the VK Fest musical program were: Basta, ANNA ASTI, Dzharakhov, Jony, Egor Creed, Yolka, Zveri, Zivert, Klava Koka, L’One, MIA BOYKA, Mari Kraimbreri, Mot, NILETTO, “Hands Up!” , Slava Marlow, Feduk, HammAli & Navai, The Hatters, Dabro, PHARAOH, 10AGE, alyona shvets., Anet Say, Vanya Dmitrienko, Wildways, GAYAZOV$ BROTHER$, Gone.Fludd, DEAD BLONDE + GSPD, RAVE CHILDREN, Zvonkiy, Zomba, Idris & Leos, Islam Itlyashev and Sultan Laguchev, ClowKoma, Konfuz, MACAN, Mary Gu, OG Buda, PIZZA, polnalyubvi, Ramil’, Slime, Sqwoz Bab, ST, SHAMAN, MakSim, DJ SMASH, Ramil’, BREAD, 4NN4, AMCHI, A*Nik & Ignat Izotov, Antokha MC, ASAMMUELL, By India, VACÍO, WineSmoke, GUMA, DAASHA, Dequine, Jesus, Dear Diary, ISMA, NO COSMONAUTS, Lila, LYRIQ, LOVANDA, Mirèle, Neverlove, Papin Olympos, Boy, Paul Punch, CARAPACEE, Stereopolina, TIHOTIHO, Khmyrov and JAV.

Over 23 million viewers watched the VK Fest online broadcast.

VK Fest is traditionally held with the support of organizational partner Radio Record.