The Baikal International Youth Forum is a platform for the most active and brave. In 2024, more than 600 participants who successfully passed the competitive selection process will take part in the Forum. The Baikal Forum takes place from August 12 to 16 on the shores of Lake Baikal in Khuzhir-Nugai Bay.
The participants will enjoy a rich educational program, extracurricular activities, meeting the best speakers in the spheres of tourism, business, culture, creative industries, IT-community and leaders of youth associations. The main theme of the Forum in 2024 is “Sustainable Development Goals”. The speakers at the Forum will be famous people, such as Alexander Karelin, deputy of the State Duma of five convocations, senator of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, three-time winner of the Olympic Games, nine-time world champion, 12-time European champion, 13-time champion of the USSR in Greco-Roman wrestling, Hero of the Russian Federation; Ilya Averbukh, Russian figure skater, entrepreneur, producer of his own ice show, choreographer; Anatoly Wasserman, Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Moscow champion in the sports version of “Jeopardy”, Marina Sedykh, CEO of JSC INK-Capital and many others.
Students of Baikal State University will take part in the Baikal Forum. They are Timur Vakhmetinov, a third-year student of the Institute of Justice in the direction of “Jurisprudence”, and Daria Malyovannaya, a second-year student of the Institute of Management and Finance.
“I applied for the Youth Communities track of the Young Politicians track. I decided to apply because it is a very good opportunity for self-realization and to meet many interesting people who share their knowledge and experience. At the Forum I want to learn something new and useful for me. I am going for the first time, so I decided not to submit any project yet, to learn and see,” says Timur Vakhmetinov.
“I applied on the advice of the ATLAS team. Initially I thought that guys go to the forum “Baikal” to defend their projects, but it turned out that it is possible without it. That's why I applied in the last days of registration. This is my first trip to the Forum. I am going to get new knowledge, emotions and to be energized by Baikal. I think it will be possible to exchange experience and knowledge here, as well as to build good communication. After all, children from all over the country come here,” says Daria Malyovannaya.
The Baikal International Youth Forum has been held in the Irkutsk Region since 2008 with the aim of involving young people in the development of their municipality and region in the sphere of economy, tourism, culture and social life. The Forum is organized by the Government of the Irkutsk Region with the support of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs under the patronage of the Office of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Siberian Federal District.