The Byg-Byg festival is a gastronomic holiday where you can taste Finno-Ugric cuisine and not only cooked according to old recipes on one platform. To participate in the festival, cooks of restaurants, cafes, catering organizations come to work with the theme of national cuisine, as well as amateur culinary experts.
| Venue: | Russia, Udmurtia, Old Bygi, Sharkan |
| Organizer: | Bygy |
| Phone: |
+7 (34136) 3-57-21, +7 (952) 402-49-61 |
| The time of the: |
8.00, 15.00 |
| Date: |
04 July 2020 - 05 July 2020 |
For 6 years, representatives from different regions of Russia took part in the festival: Mari El, Karelia, Perm Territory, Tatarstan, Kirov Region, and foreign countries: Estonia, Hungary, Finland, France, Romania ...
The “currency of the festival” - “Byg” was developed, which is another feature of the festival “Byg-byg”. You can buy food and drinks only by exchanging money for the Bygin currency - “byg”.
For several days, “tasty” days are held at various venues. The program of the Festival includes various directions: creative, culinary, scientific, sports. For the third year, competitions have been organized for youth teams, an expedition to the villages of the Sharkan region, where young people get acquainted with the secrets of cooking old Udmurt dishes.
Within the framework of the festival, various master classes are organized for everyone: “Noki shukkon” (an old way of whipping butter with tasting); for the preparation of a traditional drink of the Sharkan region VARS, which can only be tasted in the village of Bygi! Workshops on folk art.
Fans of different genres of music and genres can show themselves at the Byg-Byga venues: the Daur Gerzet festival of contemporary national music, the Byg-Byg contest of national creative groups - a friendship festival.
Traditionally, on the main venue of the Festival - “Byg-byg azbar”, there is a fair-sale of all the gastronomic products of the Finno-Ugric peoples. These are the Komi-Permian posikunchiki, and the Beserman salamat, and the Hungarian tokan, and the Mari softcoat, and Estonian quail, cheeses, etc.
