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How many wonderful holidays there are in our world that we haven't even heard of! The International Friendship Club is always eager to tell us about each of them! Nowruz is next! It is one of the most ancient spring holidays. It is celebrated on March 21, the day of the vernal equinox, and is considered to be a favorite holiday in many countries of the Eurasian continent.

HOLI Festival of Colours is an Indian folk festival celebrating the arrival of spring. The sweetest tradition of Holi celebration is to sprinkle one another with colored paints.

Finally, the full-scale Open House Day became a reality again, where the students of general and professional educational institutions of Mari El and their parents could get acquainted with the student life of the supporting university: they listened to lectures of teachers and scientists, stories of students-activists, visited classrooms, laboratories and museums.

In February 2022 a district competition "My way to science" was held. Its purpose was to create conditions for the implementation of the research potential of students, the development of interest in the study of psychological disciplines, motivation to master key competencies.

The regional stage of the Intellectual Olympiad of the Volga Federal District is over. The competition was  held in February and March 2022 in six disciplines: Robotics, Parliamentary Debate, What? Where? When?, Programming, Managerial Jousts and Engineering Team Competition.

In March, the management of the Foundation for Assistance to Innovations approved the lists of projects submitted for financing under the program "UMNIK". The selection was carried out on regional selection platforms. More than 900 students from all over Russia were among the winners, including Alexandra Ivanovna Averina, a student of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Mari State University (tutor - Nikolay Vladimirovich Kashirin, head of the youth science and innovation design center "Spektrum").

On March 14, the Russian Znanie Society launches the Smart Route, an educational lecture project in which experienced professionals from various fields will share their knowledge, experience, and inspiring success stories with young people. In one year Smart Route will visit over 130 cities and will cover every region of Russia. 

On March 6 and 7, as a part of its tour around the country, the Mari opera and ballet theatre named after E. Sapaev hosted a concert of the Russian national show "Kostroma" where the pictures of the great past are brought to life through the stories of dance about different eras of the country, its heroes, immutable traditions and fairy tales. The show presents the history of our multinational state and the life of its peoples, and touches upon such fundamental historical events as the adoption of Christianity in Russia, the era of Tsarist and pre-revolutionary Russia, the establishment of Soviet power and the first flight into space.