White Crane Festival class hour on the topic. "White Crane Day" in the MCBS library Interesting legends about the White Crane Festival

We bring to your attention scenario literary evening "Hymn of Memory"

Good afternoon, dear members of the Yaroslavna club and guests present. Every year on October 22, Russia and the CIS countries celebrate one of the most poetic holidays - White Crane Day. The initiator of its appearance was the Dagestan poet Rasul Gamzatov.

/Slide “Portrait of Rasul Gamzatov”/

Rasul Gamzatov began writing poetry when he was nine years old. And at the age of 13, his poems began to be published in the republican Avar newspaper “Bolshevik Gor”. He was only 20 years old when he became a member of the USSR Writers' Union. Gamzatov is a poet orator who advocates for peace on earth. Times change, new generations grow up, but talk about war haunts us. The wounds inflicted by the Great Patriotic War have not yet been healed in the hearts and bodies of people. In 1968, Gamzatov wrote the poem “Cranes”. Inspired by this work, composer Jan Frenkel selected music for it. This is how a song of the same name appeared, which the world heard performed by Mark Bernes. It is dedicated to the soldiers who died on the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War.

The fact is that in the Caucasus there is a belief that the souls of fallen soldiers turn into beautiful white birds. White Crane Day is a holiday of poetry, spirituality and the bright memory of those who died during military conflicts, of which, unfortunately, there were many at all times... It is intended to promote the strengthening of friendship between the multinational peoples of Russia, the interpenetration of cultures and understanding. After all, understanding is the key to resolving any conflicts without the use of weapons.

In most cultures, the crane is a symbol of light and spirituality. In China it means immortality, and among African peoples this bird is considered a sacred messenger of the gods. In Christian culture, the crane personifies goodness, order, loyalty, patience, obedience, and the flight of this bird symbolizes liberation - both spiritual and physical.

On October 22, we remember all those who fell on the battlefields. The image of white cranes throughout the world is a symbol of the tragedy of wars.

Did you know that the poem “Cranes” has its own backstory? In 1965, R. Gamzatov visited Japan, where he took part in mourning events dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. Thousands of women dressed in white, the color of mourning in Japan, gathered in the city center at a monument to a girl with a crane. Her name is Sadako Sasaki. At the time of the detonation of the atomic bomb, two-year-old baby Sadako was at home, which was located about two kilometers from the epicenter. The girl was not harmed, but in November 1954 she began to show signs of terrible disease– leukemia. Tumors formed on the neck and behind the ears. In February 1955, the girl was admitted to the hospital. Doctors told her parents that Sadako had no more than a year to live.

In August, from her friend Chizuko Hamamoto, she heard a legend according to which a person who folds a thousand paper cranes will recover. Sadako believed, as any person who wanted to live with all his being would probably believe. It was Chizuko who made the first crane for her friend. Sadako decided to fold a thousand paper “tsuru”. Because of her illness, she quickly got tired and could not do this for a long time, but when she felt at least a little better, she again picked up another sheet of paper...

There are several versions of the story about Sadako. One at a time, she managed to make a thousand cranes, but the disease continued to worsen. Relatives and friends supported the girl as best they could. Instead of giving up fatal disease, Sadako continued to fold the birds, of which there were already more than a thousand. People who learned about this were amazed at her courage and patience.

According to another version, the girl was able to make only 664 cranes, and therefore her family, friends and hospital patients helped her. They said that the birds were even sent to her by mail from everyone who was not indifferent to the story of the little Japanese woman. The disease turned out to be stronger. Sadako died on October 25, 1955. But to this day, children from around the world send thousands of cranes to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. The paper birds are placed in large glass boxes around the Sadako monument.

/Reading a poem/

Standing in the square among the mourning people, R. Gamzatov suddenly saw real cranes in the sky over Hiroshima, who had appeared from nowhere! This was a kind of sign, a sad reminder of those killed in the brutal war, because many in the Land of the Rising Sun believe in the mystical transmigration of souls. The poet immediately came up with poems; all that remained was to write them down. The little Japanese woman with paper cranes never left Rasul Gamzatov’s memory. He thought about the miraculous appearance of birds in the sky over Hiroshima, about women in white robes, about his brothers who died at the front, about 90 thousand Dagestanis who died in the war against fascism. The poem “Cranes” he wrote originally began with the lines “Sometimes it seems to me that horsemen... The famous artist and singer Mark Bernes, having seen it in the magazine “New World” and revised it with the help of translator Naum Grebnev, asked composer Jan Frenkel to write music for the poem. With the consent of the author, it was decided to replace the word “horsemen” with “soldiers”. The song “Cranes” became a requiem, a hymn to the memory of those killed during the Great Patriotic War. And in today's difficult times, this song is more significant than ever for the whole world.

/The song “Cranes” plays/

At first, White Crane Day was celebrated widely only in Dagestan. The first cranes howled into the air right there, in the high-mountainous Gunib. Over the decades, they have appeared in many parts of the globe. There are no boundaries for this holiday. Cranes have no nationality or political motives, they simply mourn, trying to remind us of humanity with the flapping of their snow-white wings...

In total, more than 20 White Cranes monuments have been erected in different parts of our planet. Time moves inexorably, you cannot stop it, you cannot delay it. But in this unstable world there must be eternal values ​​that give us the right to call ourselves human. This is, first of all, memory.

/Slides of the “White Cranes” monuments/

Another eternal value and sacred duty of every warrior, every man is the readiness to defend the Fatherland, and, if necessary, to give his life for it. More than 70 years have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War. It inflicted serious wounds on our country. The Nazis destroyed and burned thousands of cities, villages, hamlets and towns. It is difficult to find a family that has not been touched by grief, who has not lost a father, son, mother, daughter, sister, brother...

/Poem by N. Dorizo ​​“The Ballad of a Soldier’s Grave”/

The war became a test for our region. In 2018, we will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad. Let's remember those terrible days of the war, the courage of the defenders of Stalingrad.

/Clip: “Volgograd-Stalingrad”/

Unfortunately, the Great Patriotic War was not the last war in which our country participated. After that there were military conflicts in Asia and Africa, Afghanistan and Transnistria...

In one of the songs of the soldiers who participated in the military conflict in Afghanistan, there are these words: “But, life, I ask: “Give me wings - to fly away with a transparent flock of white cranes...”

/Excerpt from the song “Time is Sand”/

And this was not the last point in the history of wars. The first and second wars in Chechnya claimed the lives of 60 thousand people. IN civil war People are still dying in Ukraine to this day.

Today, on the eve of White Crane Day, let's remember everyone who gave their lives for their Motherland.

Tell your children about them,

To remember!

Tell children's children about them,

To remember too!

The memory of those who gave their lives for you and me, for our Motherland, must live on!

Everything is as it was, as it is!

I don't want anyone to touch me

Wild cartridge clips.

The omnipotent decay would not touch

Remains of a machine gun belt

In rusty swamp water

And dugout walls grown into moss.

And would spare the rain and hail

The wounded slope of the hill,

There is a great abundance of trenches,

All that was our reality,

All that was our reality,

It exploded, shot and bombed.

I want the groves to be in terrible pain

Your wounded hands

Everyone stretched out into silence...

So that people remember the war! / Alexander Prokofiev/

CRANES

Sometimes it seems to me that the soldiers

Those who did not come from the bloody fields,

The literary holiday "White Cranes" was established by the people's poet of Dagestan Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov as a holiday of spirituality, poetry and as a bright memory of those who died on the battlefields in all wars. The White Cranes holiday is celebrated not only as a day of remembrance, but also as a day of friendship between the peoples and cultures of multinational Russia.

The holiday of white cranes is celebrated annually on October 22 on the initiative of the Dagestan poet Rasul Gamzatov, the author of the text of the famous song:

“Sometimes it seems to me that the soldiers

Those who did not come from the bloody fields,

They once did not die in our land,

And they turned into white cranes.”

An unusual holiday with a poetic name is a holiday of spirituality and the bright memory of those who died on the battlefields.

In the Caucasus there is a belief that soldiers killed on the battlefield turn into cranes.

In 1968, the song “Cranes” was released, with lyrics by Rasul Gamzatov translated by Naum Grebnev and music by Ian Frenkel. The song was performed by Mark Bernes. The song is dedicated to the soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War, whom the authors compared to a wedge of flying cranes.

The impetus for writing the poem was a sad event that occurred in Japan, which the poet visited. In August 1945, the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima.

The explosion injured tens of thousands of people. Thus, one little girl, who was only 8 years old, named Sadako Sasaki, became a victim of radiation sickness. According to Japanese tradition, if a sick person makes a thousand origami cranes, he will recover. Sadako tried her best to make a thousand paper cranes, but only managed to make 644. This story struck the poet to the core, and he wrote the poem “White Cranes.”

Why is the crane the symbol of this poetic holiday? In many cultures, the white crane is the personification of spirituality, peace, light and warmth. In Japan it is the personification of longevity, in China it is a symbol of immortality, in Christianity it is decency and patience, among African peoples it is a messenger of the gods. In the Caucasus they say that the souls of soldiers killed in battle turn into snow-white cranes and rise up. In many cultures, the crane is a mediator between the worlds of people and gods. It is a bright sign of liberation and immortality, symbolizing peace and prosperity.

In the high-mountainous Gunib in Dagestan, a monument to the “White Cranes” was unveiled. Above the cliff, from a 27-meter stele, made of marble, a crane wedge is trying to break into the sky. The opening ceremony of the monument took place on August 6, 1986, the day of the tragedy in Hiroshima. This moment can be considered the starting point for the existence of the literary event “White Cranes”, the celebration of which today has gone beyond the borders of Rasul Gamzatov’s homeland and Russia.

After Mark Bernes performed the song “White Cranes,” its popularity began to grow outside the country. British performer Marc Almond recorded a single on English called "The Storks". In 2008, the Polish group Majdanek Waltz recorded the song “Zurawi”.

Official holiday White Crane Day

In 2009, UNESCO proclaimed October 22 as the White Crane Festival, adding it to the international list of memorable events.

Thematic events dedicated to October 22 began to take place in different countries of the world. This is explained simply: the holiday aims to honor the memory of innocent victims during wars, and a lot of them have happened on the planet at different times and are still happening to this day. The White Cranes holiday is also a poetic event, because best way pay tribute to the troubled past - glorify its heroes in poetry.

Cranes have no nationality - they symbolize the memory of all those who died on the battlefields. It is no coincidence that 24 monuments to white cranes were erected in different parts of the former Soviet Union. This suggests that we are all united by memory, common history, common kinship. Most often, memorial structures are made in the form of an eternal flame, cranes, the image of a mother and a soldier. The holiday served as the beginning of the creation of “crane” monuments throughout the vast world.

Every year on October 22, schools, libraries, universities, clubs of writers and poets, and many other institutions in our country and abroad hold poetry meetings, literary readings and other cultural events. The epithet of the celebration is Gamzatov’s poem “White Cranes”, the lines of this creation open the events, they are immortalized in the stone of the tombstones.

The holiday of white cranes is a holiday of poetry and memory of those who fell on the battlefields in all wars.

There is probably no more solidarity and sad holiday than the White Crane Festival. This holiday is celebrated in Russia on October 22. The initiator of this holiday was the people's poet of Dagestan Rasul Gamzatov.

It was he who wrote the famous poem “Cranes”.
Why did white cranes become the symbol of this holiday?
There is a legend in the Caucasus that soldiers killed on the battlefield turn into cranes. Throughout the world, the crane is immortality, the light force that connects man and God.
And here is another story of a twelve-year-old Japanese girl, Sadako Sasaki, who died in 1955 from the consequences of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
When the explosion occurred and a giant nuclear mushroom grew in the sky over Hiroshima, Sadaki was less than two kilometers from the explosion site. She was very young then, and hardly understood what had actually happened, but later she understood what her diagnosis – leukemia – meant. And then, struggling with death, the girl began to make cranes out of paper. She firmly believed that if she made a thousand paper cranes, she would certainly recover. There was only enough time for 644...

In Japan, there is a superstition that anyone who folds 1,000 paper cranes guarantees excellent health. Since then, paper cranes have become a symbol of peace - children from all over the world sent cranes to Japan that Sadako did not have time to finish.

The girl was buried with a thousand cranes. The children were very touched by the tragic story of the Japanese girl Sadako Sasaki, and at our literary and patriotic event in memory of her and all those who died in different wars, the children made paper cranes in the origami style. Cranes have no nationality - they symbolize the memory of those killed on the battlefields.

The presenters tell the story of the holiday, accompanying the story with a presentation and video. Everyone was especially interested in the video “Cranes” based on the words from the song by Rasul Gamzatov and “Monuments to cranes in different cities and countries.” The children also learned about our girl Tanya Savicheva from besieged Leningrad and listened to excerpts from her diary. Tanya, like Sadoki, died, but her diary remained, which she wrote, exhausted from hunger. The children were introduced to an exhibition of art books. October 22 is the White Cranes Memorial Day.

The result of the holiday was the launch of white balloons with cranes made by the hands of the participants, as a symbol, as hope, as a thin thread connecting the souls of us all. We are confident that the White Cranes holiday will become traditional for all library readers.

Sometimes it seems to me that the soldiers

Those who did not come from the bloody fields,

They once did not die in our land,

And they turned into white cranes...

Deputy Director for work with children MAUK KMCBS Shpaglova I.B.

The ICBC libraries hosted events dedicated to the “White Cranes” holiday, established by the people’s poet of Dagestan Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov as a holiday of spirituality, poetry and as a bright memory of those who died on the battlefields in all wars.

This holiday helps strengthen the centuries-old traditions of friendship between the peoples and cultures of multinational Russia.

Mentions of the beautiful bird - the crane - are found in the cultures of many peoples of the world. Almost everywhere, the crane personifies positive and bright principles. The flight of the crane is believed to represent spiritual and physical rebirth.

Sometimes it seems to me that the soldiers
Those who did not come from the bloody fields
They once did not die in our land,
And they turned into white cranes.
They are still from those distant times
They fly and give us voices.
Isn’t that why it’s so often and sad
We fall silent looking at the heavens?..

R. Gamzatov’s poem “Cranes” became the epigraph for the holiday.

The impetus for writing the poem was a sad event that occurred in Japan, which the poet visited. In August 1945, the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima. The explosion injured tens of thousands of people. So, one little girl, who was only 8 years old, named Sadako Sasaki, became a victim of radiation sickness. According to Japanese tradition, if a sick person makes a thousand origami cranes, tsuru, he will recover. Sadako tried her best to make a thousand paper cranes, but only managed to make 644.

Traditionally, the White Cranes holiday takes place on October 22 and symbolizes not only the bright memory of deceased soldiers, but also hope for a bright time of peace.

T.S. Naumova

Central Library: White Cranes of Russia

The central library hosts a book exhibition “White Cranes of Russia”, which presents books about the history of the Great Patriotic War, as well as military fiction.

T.S. Naumova

Studenetsky SBF: Festival of White Cranes

Librarian of the Studenetsky SBF together with the senior administrator of the SDK Dorokhina I.N. The club held a White Cranes celebration.

We read poems by R. Gamzatov, A. Tvardovsky, N. Mayorov, S. Gudzenko, N. Rubtsov; girls presented the dance composition “Cranes”

Librarian Sytnikova Galina Vladimirovna

Children's library: Cranes in the skies over Russia

On October 20, the staff of the Venev Children's Library held a memorial evening “Cranes in the skies over Russia” for students of grade 3 B of VCO No. 1 (Popova Yu.A.).

The children learned about the history of the White Crane Festival, which is celebrated every year in Russia on October 22. The children were very excited by the tragedy of the little Japanese girl Sadako Sasaki, who made white cranes out of paper to fulfill her dream.

The guys themselves tried to make these cranes for their friends and loved ones, as a piece of kindness and purity. At the end of the event, everyone sang a song about peace, “Let there always be sunshine.”

For this date, the library has organized a book exhibition “The Mysterious Wedge of Cranes”, which presents books about the Great Patriotic War, the war in Afghanistan, the Chernobyl disaster, books about the tragedy in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Head DBP Emelyanova T.A.

Gritsovsky SBF: Celebration of memory, poetry and friendship

Librarians of the Gritsovsky SBF held for children preparatory group MDOU No. 2 (chapter A.G. Kuzmina) thematic hour “Holiday of White Cranes”.

The children were told about how this holiday of poetry and friendship appeared, as well as the day of remembrance of all fallen soldiers in all the warriors of the world and those killed in terrorist attacks. The children watched a presentation about twenty memorial compositions depicting flying cranes.

At the end of the event, we gave all the children paper cranes as souvenirs.

Head branch of Alekseev O.N.

Kukui SBF: Cranes are flying to immortality...

At the Kukui SBF, the librarian, together with the workers of the SDK, held an hour of memory “The cranes are flying into immortality...”.

The presenters (Plaksina T. E. and Arkhipova E. I.) talked about how the poem arose, on the basis of which the world-famous song “Cranes” was created. The story of a Japanese girl suffering from leukemia after the atomic explosion in Hiroshima shocked all the children. With bated breath, everyone listened as white cranes flew to Japan from all corners of the globe to give strength to fight the disease... The miracle did not happen, the disease turned out to be stronger, Sadako died on October 25, 1955...

The song “The Japanese Crane” was played (lyrics by V. Lazarev, music by S. Tulikov). The children read Rasul Gamzatov’s poems “In Hiroshima”, “The war has a sad beginning day”, “In Hiroshima they believe this fairy tale”. In complete silence we listened to the song “Cranes” (lyrics by R. Gamzatov, music by Y. Frenkel), which became a hymn to memory. The melody of this song has a special secret of influencing listeners: no matter how much it sounds, it is impossible to perceive it without excitement.

THOSE. Plaksina

Belkovsky SBF: Festival of White Cranes

An hour of remembrance “The Holiday of White Cranes” was held at the Belkovsky SBF.

The librarian said that in the holiday calendar, October 22 is marked as the Holiday of White Cranes, a day of poetry, spirituality and as a memory of those killed in all wars. This holiday was established by the people's poet of Dagestan Rasul Gamzatov. On this day, we remember those who laid down their lives on the altar of victory on all battlefields. And on this holiday the image of the “White Cranes” is remembered. In many folk legends and tales, the crane symbolizes prosperity and peace. Created by Rasul Gamzatov, the White Crane Festival still disturbs hearts, confirming the importance of the poetic word in our lives.

On the screen is the video “White Cranes”

Presenter 1:

Sometimes it seems to me that the soldiers
Those who did not come from the bloody fields,
They once did not die in our land,
And they turned into white cranes.
They are still from those distant times
They fly and give us voices.
Isn’t that why it’s so often and sad
Do we fall silent while looking at the heavens?

Presenter 2: Good evening, dear friends! Day 22 in the holiday calendarOctober is marked as the White Cranes Festival, a day of poetry, spirituality andas a memory of those killed in all wars.
Today we remember those who laid down their lives on the altar of victory on all battlefields. And on this holiday we will remember the image of the “White Cranes”.
Presenter 1: And it’s no coincidence that we started today’s event with the lines of the poet Rasul Gamzatov. It was these poems, set to music by Jan Frenkel, that became a requiem song, a hymn to the memory of the soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War, whom the authors compared to a wedge of flying cranes, and subsequently to the victims of terrorism, the Chernobyl disaster, and military conflicts.
Presenter 2: And in today's dramatic times, the song is more important than ever for the whole world. Her melody has a special secret of influencing listeners: no matter how much it sounds, it is impossible to perceive it withoutunrest. The song “Cranes” became a hymn to the memory of those killed in all wars.

Song "Cranes"

Presenter 1: Did you know that the poem on which the world-famous song was created has its own backstory? In 1965, R. Gamzatov visited Japan, where he took part in mourning events dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. Thousands of women in white clothes (in Japan this is the color of mourning) gathered in the city center at the monument to the girl with a white crane - Sadako Sasaki.
When they dropped it on the city atomic bomb, Sadako was only two years old. Her family lived a few kilometers from the scene of the tragedy and therefore were not harmed. But ten years later, the echo of a nuclear explosion reached the walls of their house.
Presenter 2: The air, water, and earth poisoned by radiation took away Sadako’s vitality, and she fell ill with severe radiation sickness - leukemia or blood cancer. The girl did not give up hope for healing. There is a custom in Japan: if you make a thousand white cranes out of paper, your cherished dream will come true.
In the hospital, she cut out cranes from paper, believing in the legend that whenthere will be a thousand of them, recovery will come. Cut out bird figures for herclassmates and many other people helped. Sadako's dream has become a dreamthousands of people. But the disease turned out to be stronger. No miracle happened. Sadako died on October 25, 1955...
Until now, children from different countries around the world send thousands of cranes to the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima with the hope of peace. And these cranes are placed in large glass boxes standing around the Sadako monument.
Presenter 1: The poet was shocked by this story. When he stood in the square amid human grief, in the sky, over Hiroshima,real cranes. This was a kind of sign, a sad reminder of those who died in a cruel war, because many in the land of the rising sun believeinto the mystical transmigration of souls.
When the poet returned home, the poet thought about the girl, and the women in white, aboutmother and about his brothers who died at the front... he represented them in the song as white cranes - a symbol of the purity and beauty that man strives for... and the flight of the crane is the embodiment of spiritual and physical rebirth.
Presenter 2: The White Crane Days were founded on the initiative of Gamzatov back in 1986, and became not only an all-Russian national Day of Remembrance, but also an international poetry holiday, a literary and poetic holiday.
Rasul Gamzatov is a famous Dagestan poet. His poetry today unites people of different nationalities, teaches goodness, wisdom and love.
She has long crossed the borders of her native state and has become a native treasure. The people of Dagestan are a mountain people, a people with their own traditions andcustoms. During the Dagestan wars, men went to the mountains and were veryoften they did not return, and their wives and families were left alone. ButGiven the resilient nature of these people, capable of holding even the most severe grief within themselves, they continued to believe. just like in Rus', veryoften Russian warriors never returned to their beloved, to their family, they protected them, fought for them. and died for them. and what remained for the woman? endure and wait... Here is another commonality of our peoples...

Presenter 1:

We didn't know those days.
We were told about this
Like in the harsh years of the worst war
Girls and boys left their desks for the front,
Without waiting for my eighteenth young spring.
We didn't know war.
We saw this from the screen:
A beardless battalion commander rose to his full height above the trench,
A terrible wound was bleeding on his head,
But he led the same guys into an attack behind the high-rise building.
The earth was torn by shells, and it burned underfoot,
The hot air was cut through by a terrible rain of lead.
With a loud cry of “hurray” that has flown over the years since then,
The battalion commander went on the attack to the last line, to the end.
We didn't know those days.
Like the jubilant voice of Victory,
Scattering over the world, he entered every house.
We did not know war, -
Our grandfathers told us about this.
We are all happy because we were born later.

Presenter 2: War and poetry. It would seem that there are no more contradictory concepts. But, contrary to the old saying “When the guns speak, the muses are silent,” during the years of trials the muses were not silent, they fought, they became weapons that defeated enemies, the word in war sometimes cost lives, but it sounded more powerful than ever.
Presenter 1: Many poets did not return from the Great Patriotic War. They shared with their people all the hardships of wartime. These people were different - in talent, in age, in their pre-front destinies. Some of them had already managed to enter literature and publish books, others were just beginning to be published, and others, like Pavel Kogan or Boris Smolensky, never saw a single line of their own typed.

I'm a patriot. I am Russian air,
I love the Russian land,
I believe that nowhere in the world
You can't find a second one like this,
So that it smells like this at dawn,
So that the smoky wind on the sands...
And where else can you find these?
Birches, just like in my land!
I would die like a dog from nostalgia
In any coconut heaven.
P. Kogan

Presenter 2: Now the lines from the soldiers' notebooks will come to life before you.... they are different, these poems, they are united by one thing - the strength of poetic feeling, love for the Motherland.

There is no need to feel sorry for us, because we, too,
No one would be spared.
We are in front of our battalion commander, like
pure before the Lord God.
The living ones are red with blood
and clay overcoats.
Bloomed on the graves of the dead
blue flowers.
Let the living remember and let
generations know
This one, taken in battle, severe
truth soldier.
And your crutches and death
through wound,
And the graves over the Volga, where thousands of young people lie...

Presenter 1: Semyon Gudzenko will say these courageous and proud words about his generation shortly before the victory. He came from the front, but the war overtook him in 1953, when front-line wounds opened, which turned out to be fatal.
Presenter 2: Twenty years... It's a shame the life path of the author of these poems, Boris Bogatkov, a Siberian, builder of the Moscow metro, was short.Demobilized, after being seriously wounded, he returned to the front. INI wrote poetry in the respites between battles...

Presenter 1:

Two hundred meters - absolutely
A little-
The forest is separated from us.
It seems like the road is long
Just one small throw.
Ahead are empty cities,
Unplowed fields.
It's hard to know that my Russia
That's why the fishing line is not mine...
I'll look at my friends
guardsmen:
Eyebrows knitted, darkened, -
Like me, their hearts ache
Just, sacred anger.
We swore that we would stand up
again
To birth milestones!
And in moments of severe battle
We, the guards, will not be intimidated
A shower of bullets, demolishing
caps,
And a revived German bunker...
If only it sounded short,
Long awaited order:
"Forward!"

Presenter 2: Children of fathers who did not fight at war - this is what they often say about internationalist warriors. For the first time since 1945, it was the “Afghans” who had to fully realize how fragile our world is. What gave the past events a special drama was the fact that all these years, war and peace were separated only by a “river” and a short air bridge.
Those who crossed the Afghan border in the now so distant December,did not yet know what to prepare for and what awaited them. They left us into the unknown

Presenter 1:

Afghanistan remains in sight.
Afghanistan remains in my chest.
Common pride and common grief,
united for the life ahead
Meeting on the street, quick glances...
No, we haven't met him before. But
he is tanned - from Asadabad,
It’s just that now he lives in Strogino.
We cannot live now without recognition.
Hearts are drawn to each other.
Let us not meet in Afghanistan.
We will not part here until the end.
Viktor Verstakov (warrior - internationalist)

Presenter 2: Today at our holiday there are

A word to veterans of combat operations in Afghanistan

Presenter 1: Over the years, the White Crane Festival has become a symbol of the common fate of the Russian people and the numerous peoples of the Caucasus. In different parts of the former Soviet Union, 24 monuments to cranes have been erected - a whole gallery of monuments where the metaphor of cranes is used to convey grief for soldiers who did not return from the war.
Presenter 2: We bow to the feat of arms of the soldiers of the Fatherland. Low bow to everyone who bore on their shoulders the hardships and deprivations of the militaryhard times, overcoming pain, blood and death. Low bow and gratitude from descendants to those who raised the country from ruins, who with their whole lives showed what the generation of Victors should be like.
Presenter 1: Time moves inexorably, you cannot stop it, you cannot delay it. But in this unstable world there must be eternal values. Values ​​that give us the right to call ourselves Human. One of them is the readiness to defend the Fatherland, and, if necessary, to give one’s life for it.
Presenter 2: It is difficult to imagine what people experienced during the war and during itrestoration - devastation! Hunger! After this - local conflicts - inAsia, and in the East, in Afghanistan and Chechnya...
We must draw conclusions - our dead expect us to prevent a repetition of wars. This holiday has become an example of peace and respect for history.
Presenter 1: The leitmotif of our holiday is the song “Cranes”. The authors of this song have long been dead: poet Rasul Gamzatov, composer Ian Frenkel, performer Mark Bernes - they took their place in the crane formation. But this song lives on, it awakens a lot of good feelings in people. It is no coincidence that participants in the war in Afghanistan and Chechnyathey say: “We will become older, simpler and rougher, we will know everything and be able to do a lot. But life, please, let your wings fly away with a transparent flock of white cranes! "
Please honor the memory of the fallen heroes with a minute of silence.

A minute of silence.

Presenter 2: Mentions of a beautiful bird - the crane - are found incultures of many peoples of the world. Almost everywhere the crane representspositive and bright beginning. In China, the crane is also often associatedimmortality. For many peoples, for example African ones, the crane isa messenger of the gods and a symbol of communication with the gods. In Japan, the image of a crane- tsuru - symbolizes longevity and prosperity.
Presenter 1: We wish each viewer longevity and prosperity, we want to give everyone a piece of kindness and purity, in the form of these white cranes, a symbol of the holiday.
We wish all participants of the holiday a peaceful sky above their heads, so that war never invades our lives.

Chorus of the song “Let there always be sunshine.”