Ust-Labinsk (Russian: Усть-Лаби́нск) is a town and the administrative center of Ust-Labinsky District of Krasnodar Krai, Russia.

[8] History of Ust-Labinsk dates back to 1778, when fort Aleksandrovskiy was founded at the confluence of Kuban and Laba rivers.

[1] As an administrative division, it is, together with two rural localities, incorporated within Ust-Labinsky District as the Town of Ust-Labinsk.

The festival is organised by the Volnoe Delo Foundation, whose founder Oleg Deripaska, ethnic Cossack, was born in Ust-Labinsk.

[9][10] In 2022, one of the Festival's headliners was said to be the Russian-born Tajik singer Manizha, who represented Russia in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest.

The Lyceum is named after a famous Russian mathematician Nikolay Lobachevsky to reflect the school's focus on sciences.