With the support of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives, as well as the Main Department of Culture of the Krasnoyarsk City Administration, the International Forum "Literary Dialogue in Russian" started on April 7.

The Forum's focus is on modern achievements in Russian literature: more than 10 seminars on poetry, prose, children's literature, verse libre, poetry therapy by recognized writers; open meetings held at/in the Literary Museum and city libraries; poetry and prose slams; creative meetings in schools, colleges and universities.

Word experts (linguistics) and famous writers will attend the forum events: Svetlana Vasilenko (First Secretary of the Board of the Union of Russian Writers), Sevinch Uchgul (Head of the Department of Russian Language and Literature of Erciyes University), Lilia Gazizova (Kayseri, Turkey, - a member of the International PEN Club ( PEN-Moscow) and the Union of Russian Writers, Honored Art Worker of the Republic of Tatarstan).

​On the part of the international community, guests from Armenia, Serbia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, as well as more than 60 Russian authors (from the Amur Region to Kaliningrad) will take part in the "Literary Dialogue".

Events with the participation of masters of poetry and prose will be held throughout the Krasnoyarsk Region: in Krasnoyarsk, Sosnovoborsk, Divnogorsk, Lesosibirsk, Achinsk, Kansk, Nazarovo, Ovsyanka, Podgorny and Dzerzhinskoye.