The KVN team Baikal from Irkutsk Oblast and the Republic of Buryatia won the right to play in the Premier League under Alexander Maslyakov Sr. after the anniversary Kivin 2009 festival in Sochi.
The KVN team “Baikal” from the Irkutsk Region and the Republic of Buryatia will play in the Major League under Alexander Maslyakov Sr.This became known at the 20th anniversary international festival “KiViN-2009,” which was held in Sochi. This time, 536 teams took part. Prize places are not awarded at the festival. The task of the cheerful and resourceful is to go through several rounds and show themselves. Based on the results of the performances, the participants were distributed among the leagues. Twelve teams advanced to the Major League. Based on the results of the festival, the lineups of the main leagues of the International KVN Union were formed. The Irkutsk players are now waiting for information from Moscow about their nearest opponents and the date of the first meeting.In 2008, the team from the Irkutsk Region and the Republic of Buryatia managed to reach the semifinals. This time, the team is hoping only for victory.
Yury Yashnikov, captain of the KVN team “Baikal”: “A team that played in an interregional league or a central league, which was not shown on television, can afford to put together five minutes of material over the course of a year and bring it to Sochi. But a team that played in the Major or Premier Leagues cannot afford that. That is why in Sochi we showed a completely new program.”