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From March 8 to 10, holidays dedicated to the arrival of spring will be held in Gorky Park. So, on Friday, March 8, the festival “Everything for You!” Will be held on the occasion of International Women's Day, and on March 9 and 10 we invite all Kharkiv citizens to a noisy Pancake Week!

Festivities with contests, funs, songs and dances await our guests. It will not do without traditional pancakes, which will be baked at the Shrovetide fair.

The fun will take place on the Central Square, in the middle of which the Pancake week is already rising. Around spread fair with treats. A Marena figure, thematic photo zones, platforms for contests and fun will be installed here. The mummers will treat everyone with bagels for a song or dance. Our guests will find a lot of fun national competitions, including eating pancakes for speed. At 5 p.m. the Pancake Week “Ice Pillar” starts. The most agile and strong ones need to climb seven meters high to get one of ten traditional prizes.

The main stage will be performed by folk groups “Soul”, “Spring”, a children’s theater “Children of the Future”, a cover band “One more time”. On Sunday at 19-20, the ceremony of seeing off the winter and the symbolic burning of Marena will begin. The holiday will continue with a disco in a folk style.