The X Bell Art festival Crystal Ring will be held from 17 to 19 January in Kargopol (Arkhangelsk region).

The festival will bring together bell-ringers from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Petrozavodsk, Vologda, Yaroslavl, Rostov and Omsk,  information agency REGNUM reported.

The festival will include children art contest. The culmination of the festival will be the concert of bells at the night from 18 to 19 January, the ceremony of great water consecration and bathing in Onega river.
The experienced bell-ringers will conduct master classes at mobile belfry.

The scientific and practical symposium "Each belfry has its own ring” will take place, too.

The exhibition “The bell-ringer of Russian land” will be opened at the museum and exhibition center of Kargopol history, architecture and arts museum.