The winner of the Second Youth Ice Sculpture Festival in Perm became a team of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. It is this team that will represent Perm at the All-Russian Ice and Snow Sculpture Championship in 2011.
An average temperature between 15 and 25 degrees below zero Celsius made for the ideal sculpting and viewing environment. When the ice carvings were done, the jury consisting of Lyubov Fedorova, Head of the Perm City Committee for Culture, Yuriy Lapshin, member of the Russian Artists Association, Aleksey Tyutnev, Chair of the Board of the Russian Sculptors Foundation, and Tatyana Kuznetsova, repeated champion of various sculpture festivals held both in Russia and abroad, began their work. The jury's award went to the sculpture called "Victory is our Heritage" (Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture). "St. George the Victorious" sculpture depicting St. George slaying the dragon carved by another team of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture also attracted attention of Perm residents. "On the Right Side" ice carving made by a team of Kungur Art and Craft College made viewers to think over millions of soldiers who gave their lives as a sacrifice for their motherland.
The honorary guest of the closing ceremony was Vasiliy Astafyev, the Hero of the Soviet Union and an Honorary Citizen of Perm City.
Everyone is invited to take part in on-line voting at www.cultpermi.ru till February 12th. People's Choice Award will go to a team whose sculpture will get an overwhelming majority of votes.
