Samars ask Putin to return "Rock over the Volga"

Residents of Samara and the Samara region turned to President Vladimir Putin with a request to help revive the Rock over the Volga, the largest one-day rock festival in Europe.

The petition "Return to Samara" Rock over the Volga "!" Posted on the Change.org website.

The festival was founded in 2009, until 2011 it took place on the field of the Krasny Piery state farm, and since 2012-near the village of Peter Dubrav, five kilometers northeast of Samara. Hedliners “Rock over the Volga” were Apocalyptica , Deep Purple , Skunk Anansie , Zaz , Garbage , Limp Bizkit .

The entrance to the festival was free, some of the expenses for its holding were taken by the government of the Samara region, the main investors were representatives of large businesses.

The fifth “rock over the Volga” on June 8, 2013 gathered more than 690 thousand spectators. The performance at the festival of the German group Rammstein caused a scandal: the deputy of the Samara Provincial Duma, the head of the regional public movement “Orthodox Samara” Dmitry Sivirkin outraged the “immoral” texts of the songs Rammstein .

This year the festival did not take place, whether it will be held in the future is unknown. “There is one, but a very serious problem on the issue of holding the Rock over the Volga festival in Samara,” the Samara Internet publication quoted the head of the Department of Tourism of the Samara Region Mikhail Maltsev.

“The federal authorities are unlikely to take up its decision. - he believes. “If there are businessmen who are ready to allocate money to organize the event, they will probably spend it.”