Performers from Mogilev and Zhodino won the Grand Prix of the pop song contest in the Smolensk region

July 27, Moscow / Eduard Pivovar - BELTA/. As many as three novice artists became the Grand Prix winners of the 10th Interregional Competition of Young Pop Song Performers, which took place last weekend in the town of Velizh, Smolensk region of Russia. Moreover, two of them are Belarusians: soloist of the Mogilev Philharmonic Alexei Cherny and Yevgeny Litvinkovich from Zhodino, the competition's organizing committee informed BELTA correspondent. They shared the victory with Maria Zhuravleva, a student of Smolensk Humanitarian University. Among vocal ensembles, representatives of Belarus were also recognized as the best - the vocal group of the folk pop song studio "Kreativ" from Orsha. The competition featured 42 soloists under the age of 30 and 6 vocal ensembles from Smolensk, Pskov, Leningrad, Kaliningrad and Amur regions of Russia, as well as from Minsk, Vitebsk and Mogilev regions. The competition jury was headed by the artistic director of the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art, Honored Artist of Russia Andrey Bill. -0-