Irkutsk residents can expect a bright and rich Maslenitsa with mass games, contests, songs, dances, and theatrical performances. Guests will especially enjoy unusual contests, eating and tossing pancakes, obstacle races, and tests on the Maslenitsa pole and lifting a 36 kg kettlebell. Festivities will take place not only in the city streets, but also in libraries and schools, and will end with a spectacular burning of the effigy with pyrotechnic effects.

As the chief director of the celebration, Olga Kiryanova, said, Irkutsk residents can look forward to a packed entertainment program with traditional mass games, fun attractions, songs, dances, theatrical performances, and performances by creative groups. Everyone will be able to take part in competitions for eating pancakes, tossing pancakes, and obstacle races with pancakes. The strongest will test their strength on the Maslenitsa pole and in lifting a 36 kg kettlebell. Gifts have been prepared for all contest winners.
According to Olga Kiryanova, Maslenitsa this year will be special: beautiful, grand, with pyrotechnic effects, it will burn brightly and spectacularly!».
During Maslenitsa week, many events are held in the city’s libraries and schools: celebrations for children and schoolchildren, meetings with veterans, exhibitions. Staff of the Humanitarian Center-Library named after the Polev family hold festive events for children 3-4 times a day. In total, about 1,000 children have attended them. And on Sunday they have prepared an outdoor celebration, “Maslenitsa for Overseas Guests,” for residents of the Universitetsky neighborhood. It will begin at 14.00 in the square near the Sardelka supermarket. Also in the Sverdlovsky District, mass events will take place in Paris Commune Park (March 17 at 12.00) and in the Sinyushina Gora neighborhood (March 17 at 13.00 near the Orion cinema). In the Leninsky District, the largest festive events will take place in the square near the Rossiya cinema (March 17 at 13.00) and in Komsomolsky Park (March 17 at 12.00). In the Oktyabrsky District, Irkutsk residents are expected on Postyshev Boulevard (March 17 at 14.00) and near the Angara icebreaker (March 17 at 16.00).
Based on materials from the press service of the Irkutsk city administration