Students and teachers of the SFedU Institute of Philology, Journalism and Intercultural Communication celebrated the Day of the Russian Language and the anniversary of Alexander Pushkin's birth, immersed in the atmosphere of creative competition.

Russian Language Department prepared the celebration in the format of an exciting quest. The participants, divided into teams, moved around the thematic stations. For the successful completion of tasks on each of them, the team received a piece of the puzzle. The main goal was to be the first to assemble the whole picture and become winners. A team of teachers led by Anna Dmitrova, Director of the SFedU Institute of Philology, Journalism and Intercultural Communication, also joined the gambling struggle for victory.

The quest route was full of various tests, testing both knowledge of Pushkin's heritage and general erudition in the field of the Russian language:

"They found out the fate of Lukomorye." There was a mystical atmosphere here: students gathered around a table and tried to look into the future using Tarot cards and other divination. According to coordinator Gleb Kimlach, the most important thing at this station is not competition, but friendly communication and the opportunity to ask an exciting question.

"Evgeny Krokodilin". The participants had to play "Crocodile", but with a philological bias: they had to use gestures to explain words from Pushkin's lines — borrowings, historicisms and outdated lexemes. Coordinator Karina Zhorova noted that it was very interesting to observe the non-standard logic of the players.

"Oh yes, Pushkin." At this station, the teams acted as literary detectives. They had to choose from 13 proposed poems those that belong to the pen of Alexander Sergeevich, separating them from the works of other poets.

"A fashionable verdict." A creative task where teams blindly dressed up mannequins, creating images of literary heroes. As the coordinator, Maria Mayboroda, explained, it helps to visualize the characters when reading the works.

According to the results of the intellectual race, the victory was won by the team with the symbolic name "Winners". Its participant, student-journalist Alexandra Nichaeva, shared her impressions: "All the stations were interesting, I liked guessing the poems the most. We quickly and actively completed the tasks, which is why we won. We are a friendly team."

At the end of the celebration, all participants received memorable souvenirs for a long memory of this sunny day.