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World Youth Festival in Russia to Host 35,000 Participants - Sochi Deputy Mayor

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A total of 35,000 guests and volunteers will participate in the upcoming XIX World Festival of Youth and Students in the Russian resort city of Sochi, the city's Deputy Mayor Sergey Yurchenko said Friday.

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SOCHI (Sputnik) Some 20,000 festival guests in total are among those who will arrive in Sochi in October, while other people will participate as volunteers, and technical and support staff, Yurchenko said.

"It is an unprecedented number of participants. During the Winter Olympics in Sochi there were 5,000 participants," the official noted.

The XIX World Festival of Youth and students is scheduled for October 14-22, and expects to attract young specialists aged between 18 and 35 from different backgrounds worldwide.

Earlier in June, Grigory Petushkov, the chairman of the Russian national preparatory committee, said that around 150,000 foreign nationals from 190 countries and over 60,000 Russians submitted bids for participation in the festival.

Sochi was chosen to host the 2017 festival by the general assembly of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) in 2015. The international festival has been taking place since 1947 and is organized by WFDY and the International Union of Students. The last festival was held in Quito, Equador, in late 2013. Moscow has already hosted the event twice, in 1957 and in 1985.

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