Grushinsky festival

The festival takes its name from Valeri Grushin, a singer-songwriter who died during a backcountry camping trip trying to save his drowning friends.

Usual participants included Yuri Vizbor, Tatyana and Sergey Nikitins, Bulat Okudzhava, Alexander Dolsky, Oleg Mitayev, Leonid Dukhovny among others.

The major landmark of the festival is the stage built on the raft, in the shape of a guitar, with its fingerboard serving as a bridge to the shore.

The Grushin Mountain ridge serves as natural stands for thousands of visitors.

In the late 1990s, the festival became commercialized, and broadened its format larger than only bard songs.