Accreditation of media representatives will begin on July 30, 2025 and will last until 23:59 on August 20, 2025. Russian media and blogosphere representatives from other countries can apply.
An International Press Center will be set up at the site of the World Youth Festival Assembly. Workplaces and press areas will be organized for journalists. Special studios for recording and broadcasting will be equipped for partners of the World Youth Festival Assembly. Journalists and bloggers will be able to visit all sites of the international youth event, as well as communicate with speakers, participants and volunteers.
Deputy Director General for External Communications of the World Youth Festival Directorate Vakhtang Khiklandze emphasized that long before the start of accreditation, the World Youth Festival Directorate received feedback emphasizing the interest of the media in covering the events of the Assembly. He also called on the media and bloggers to submit their applications as soon as possible.
«It is fundamentally important for us to create comfortable conditions for journalists to work - representatives of foreign and Russian media will have exclusive access to key events, will be able to interview top speakers and communicate with participants from all over the world. Media volunteers will help journalists at the press center. We invite Russian and foreign journalists, bloggers to join in covering the key international youth event of 2025,» - said Vakhtang Khiklandze, Deputy Director General for External Communications of the World Youth Festival Directorate.
The World Youth Festival Assembly will take place from September 17 to 21 in Nizhny Novgorod. It will be attended by 2,000 young leaders aged 14 to 35 – 1,000 from Russia and 1,000 from foreign countries. The event will be attended by representatives of the media, creative industries, sports, education and science, public administration, entrepreneurship and IT.
The event will be held in the format of an interactive modular platform. As part of the business program, participants will enjoy immersive shows, trend battles on current youth topics, workshops, case studies and master classes from leading experts. The Assembly site will feature a press aquarium, label castings and project pitchings. Young people will be able to test themselves in extreme sports and become the authors of the largest painting in the world.
The application campaign for the Assembly has already come to an end – more than 60 thousand young people from 175 countries of the world have expressed their desire to become participants. Priority right to participate in the Assembly will be granted to candidates with a rich portfolio with confirmed achievements, demonstrating expertise in their field and having projects ready for implementation or already being implemented, motivated for international cooperation and exchange of experience with other participants.
Accreditation links:
For Russian media and blogosphere representatives - https://wyffest.reg.events/press/
For foreign media and blogosphere representatives - https://wyffest.reg.events/en/press/
Overview:
The World Youth Festival took place on March 1–7, 2024 in Sirius, according to the Decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the development of international youth cooperation. The WYF-2024 brought together 20,000 young leaders from 190 countries.
On the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation, the WYF will be held in Russia on a regular basis – once in six years. Also, every six years 10,000 young people from all over the world will get together at the World Youth Festival Forum, and in between, international themed assemblies for 2,000 participants will be held under the auspices of the WYF. The first Assembly is scheduled to take place in September 2025 in Nizhny Novgorod. Festival events of various formats will be held in Russia annually.
According to the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation on the preservation and development of the Festival legacy, the World Youth Festival Directorate continues the work aimed at strengthening international youth cooperation.
