UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 3, 2015. Snezhnost, ChTPZ Group’s 13th annual charity festival for children, opens in Chelyabinsk on December 4 with Konstantin Raikin Higher Acting School’s Let’s Play Cartoons, the company press service reports.

The Group has run this charity festival for socially vulnerable children since 2003. This year, Snezhnost is also supported by the Russian Culture Ministry.

Over 7,500 children from South Ural cities will be able to see the country’s best plays at Chelyabinsk’s major theaters. Children of the Group’s employees are traditionally invited, as well as local schoolchildren, members of junior sports clubs, kids from Ozersk church parish, children living in orphanages, and children from socially vulnerable families.

‘Every year, we do our best for the festival to live up to the young audience’s expectations. We’d like to see their joy-filled faces, to support their believing in miracles and in the good overcoming the evil, this is the festival’s whole point. Government support of the project is greatly appreciated. We are grateful to the theaters and actors who bring their best plays to the event,’ says ChTPZ BOD Chairman Alexander Fedorov.

This year, People’s Actor of the Russian Federation Konstantin Raikin came to welcome the children to the festival in person.