NCFU has announced the winners of the POETRY – MY POWER contest where foreign students used social networks to show their talents.

April this year, the Department for Foreign Education declared a contest where the participants had to upload a video with the #ПоэзияСИО hashtag. The content could be different from their own poetry to citing poems in Russian or in their mother tongue.

– Foreign students have always been fond of the Russian language and especially poetry, - Alexander Povolotsky (expert, Department for Foreign Education, NCFU) noted. – And this year there were so many of them willing to come and put their best foot forward at the Student Spring Festival, yet we could hold it in the flesh because of the coronavirus pandemic. However, we did offer them a contest in social networks. We got many works submitted – over 30, and the participants revealed a great command of Russian, artistic talents and sincerity.

The most active participants were students from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Most students chose poems by modern Russian poets, yet there were also those who chose Russian or foreign classics. Egidio Nanga (Angola), for instance read a poem by Mikhail Lermontov, and Ziedulloh Zakirov from Tajikistan recited a work by Omar Khayyam.

The jury awarded the prize to the Aigul Berdieva (majoring in Linguistics) from Turkmenistan, while the second prize went to Ziedulloh Zakirov (Tajikistan) and Kaneat Mingboeva (Uzbekistan). The third place was shared by Egidio Nanga (Angola) and Shakhlo Hasanova (Uzbekistan).