ODESA, MAY 22nd, 2013, CONTEXT-PRICHERNOMORIE ― III International Literary Festival, dedicated to the 120th Anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky, has been held in Odesa, Context-Prichernomorie correspondent reports.

Odesa City Council Information Office reported today, 22 May.

According to the information, at this time the III International Literary Festival is dedicated to the 120th Anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Mayakovsky. In addition to the Odesa writers, in the festival of poetry, prose writers, journalists, broadcasters from Moscow, Kyiv, Chisinau and Lviv are taking part. A little earlier, the festival started in Moscow, now takes place in Odesa, and then moved to Georgia. Traveling from Moscow to Odesa and then by sea to Batumi, the participants of the festival will go the way of the great poet, journeyed in 1914 and 1924.

The cultural capital of Ukraine, the festival capital of Ukraine ― our wonderful Odesa ― welcomes all writers and lovers of Russian words in the literary heart of Odesa ― Literary Museum. The festival has become a real holiday of the Russian language, the unifying bridge between people, cities and states where the Russian word alive,” Elena Pavlova noted.