Awarded the first award of Arkady Dragmoshchenko

On November 23, 2014, on the new stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, the award was first awarded Arkady Dragomoshchenko. The laureate of the award was the St. Petersburg poet Nikita Safonov.

He received a cash prize of 70,000 rubles. The poets of Alexander Tsibul and Lada Chizhova received incentive prizes in the amount of 20,000 rubles. There were twenty poets from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Simferopol, Kiev, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod and Ivanovo in Longlist .

On November 22–23, a series of events of the poetic award of Arkady Dragomoshchenko established this year was held on the new stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater. The founder of the award is an independent bookstore of intellectual literature "Word Order" . Every year, the bonus will be awarded to poets whose age at the time of nomination does not exceed 27 years.

The jury included Alexander Skidan (chairman), Dmitry Kuzmin, Anna Glazova, Mikhail Yampolsky, Alexander Ilyanen, Stanislav Lvovsky.

“The poetics of Nikita Safonov, who became the laureate of the award this year, managed to develop and exists as a certain length in which it has already become and continues to become aware of itself in its variability. Poetics of Lada Chizhova and Alexandra Tsibuli, finalists of this year, promise subsequent development, but already now they allow you to hear every special, recognizable voice, ”said Anna Glazova.

“This is a huge responsibility. Not before the premium institute, but to the tradition of the thought of writing, ”Nikita Safonov said, accepting the prize.