Russian Winter Festival 2005

The Russian Winter Festival in London – a major cultural festival – was celebrated on an annual basis attracting record numbers of visitors to Trafalgar Square each year. The first Russian Winter Festival took place on 15 January 2005.

Performers included: The Alexandrov Red Army Choir, Russian Soul (Moscow), Karagod (Moscow), Severnoye Siyanie (indigenous peoples of Chukotka and the far North), Cossack Ensemble ‘Krinitsa’, Faizi Gaskarov Ensemble (Urals and Volga regions), Nadezhda Babkina’s Russian Song Ensemble (Moscow), Loika (Russian Gypsies), the phenomenally talented children’s dance group Makhmud Esambaev Ensemble (Chechnya) and Pelageya (Novosibirsk).