World Festival of Youth and Students

The World Festival of Youth and Students is an international event organized by the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) and the International Union of Students after 1947.

The festival has been held occasionally since 1947, mainly in communist states, as an event of global youth solidarity for democracy and against war and imperialism.

The largest festival was the 6th, held in 1957 in Moscow, when 34,000 young people from 131 countries attended the event.

There were no festivals between 1962 and 1968, as events proposed in Algeria and then Ghana were cancelled due to coups and political turmoil in both countries.

[3] The most recent festival took place in Sochi, Russia, from 13 to 22 October 2017.