May 22, 2013. The best young family was selected at Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant: Lyudmila, Alexander, Danil, Zakhar, and Matvei Sharov won in the Young Family 2013 Festival, the corporation’s press service reports.

Seven young families of Uralvagonzavod employees competed for the first prize. The 12th festival was actually the one with the greatest number of participating children in the history of this contest. 18 children took part in the competition with their parents. The 6-month-old Diana Karsakova was the youngest contestant, and the 16-year-old Ildar Kharkov was the oldest participating child. It took the families one month to prepare for the final stage of the contest: they took part in the intermediate stages and demonstrated their sports-playing skills, creative talents, and family togetherness.

The final show proved very touching, heart-felt, and home-like, and all the contestants had a chance to reveal their talents there. The families used poems, dances, songs, and comedy sketches to tell the spectators about their families’ love stories and rituals. The spectators could go fishing with the Kharkov family, watch a magic show with the Naidyuk magicians, kindle a family hearth with the Khalemins, dance wildly with the Karsakovs, and take part in the Sharovs’ amusing home auction. What is more, visitors to the festival, the Letyagins, who won last year’s contest, presented their feature as well. From now on, the contest coordinators are planning to invite one outstanding family from the previous year’s festival every year.