More than 800 people attended the Reading Day festival in Irkutsk and Kirensk. As in the previous events, Irkutsk Oil Company (IOC) was the main sponsor.

Writers, teachers, and children's reading experts from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Severobaikalsk, and Irkutsk met with children and adults. The program included an interactive performance based on Gianni Rodari's story “The Comet Seller,” a presentation of the book “My Childhood in Irkutsk,” and a series of cultural and educational events.

More than 500 people attended the city reading festival held at the Institute of Philology, Foreign Languages, and Media Communications of Irkutsk State University. Illustration and writing workshops, quests, and exhibitions were organized for participants.

A workshop on Literature and Teenagers was also held in Irkutsk with the participation of federal experts for employees of children's libraries in Irkutsk, organized in partnership with the Y. S. Samsonov Central Children's Library.

The main program of the reading festival then continued in Kirensk, with more than 300 schoolchildren and adults taking part. As part of the Reading Day, the final round of the “Try Your Hand at Writing” competition for young prose writers and poets from the Kirensky District took place. In addition, meetings with contemporary authors and an interactive exhibition Mors. In the World of Fairy Tales were held.

The spring program of the Reading Day is planned to be held as part of the nationwide project Books Around the World. The event will be dedicated to the Biographies series published by Nastya and Nikita Publishing House. Participants can look forward to offline classes and online meetings based on books about outstanding figures in Russian science and art by contemporary writers Natalia Klyuchareva, Dina Artemkina, and Katerina Antonova.

The organizers invite parents, school and children's librarians, and teachers to join the project as curators and hold Book Around the World events for children at their venues. To register a venue, fill in the form before April 4 (inclusive).

Reading Day – a reading festival for children and adults held since 2018. IOC is the general partner of the event. The Reading Day festival project was included in the all-Russian Educational Atlas “100 Projects About Reading. Youth Initiatives — 2018”, was recognized as the best at the VI International Pedagogical Forum in Sochi in 2019, and in 2023 was included in the long list of the Revizor professional skills competition.

More than 800 people attended the Reading Day festival in the Irkutsk Region