Rostec international fireworks festival and the Mobile Art Theater application run with the support of the Moscow Сity Tourism Committee, as well as Journey to Christmas Festival of the Moscow Seasons series made it to the winners’ podium of the regional award. Magnum Live Lab 2019, a joint project of the Moscow City Tourism Committee, ANO Moscow Project Office for Tourism and Hospitality Development, and Magnum Photos international agency, was titled as the second best cultural tourism event.

“Today, Moscow attracts more and more tourists with its festivals, cultural events, and international exhibitions. And I’m pleased to know that projects of our capital are leading in these fields. One of such projects already beloved by Moscovites and guests of our city is our Magnum Live Lab 2019. We are very glad that experts have appreciated it and that together with other Moscow projects it will represent our city at the Russian Event Awards,” noted Olga Papadina, CEO of ANO Moscow Project Office for Tourism and Hospitality Development.

The awardees of the regional session will present their projects in the final session of the Russian Event Awards which will be held in Samara on November 15–17.

Moscow tourist projects awarded in the final of the regional session of the Russian Event Awards:

The best cultural event for tourists (the city population above 100 thousand people):

The 1^st place: Rostec international fireworks festival

The 2^nd place: Magnum Live Lab 2019

The best event for tourists devoted to the Year of Theater:

The 1^st place: Journey to Christmas Festival

The best history event for tourists:

The 2^nd place: Times & Epochs history festival

The best sports event for tourists:

The 2^nd place: Moscow Sports in Luzhniki

The best interactive program of an event for tourists:

The 1^st place: the Mobile Art Theater


Magnum Live Lab is an international project, in which photojournalists of the legendary photo agency are taking pictures and familiarizing themselves with a city during two weeks and then are publicly discussing their photos and preparing exhibits for the final showcase. The first session of the laboratory was held in winter, in Dome pavilion in Zaryadye Park, while the second one took place in summer, in Schusev State Museum of Architecture. All portraits and landscapes were created in real time. Both sessions of the project were visited by more than 30 thousand people.

Rostec international fireworks festival is an annual summer event, where the best masterpieces of the fireworks art are demonstrated. On August 17 and 18, 2019, Brateevsky park hosted the fifth international pyrotechnical festival Rostec which this year was devoted to the theatrical art.

The Mobile Art Theater offers immersive audio performances, each of which shall be listened while walking along a particular route in Moscow. In fact, the whole performance is played in the listener’s mind, while the city turns into theatrical scenery. The Mobile Art Theater can help you to feel like a tourist even in your home city and to see it from a quite new angle. For tourists, it is also an unusual occasion to make a trip that will then turn into a lifetime experience.