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The district semi-final of the "It's a Family Tradition" competition of the presidential platform "Russia – a Land of Opportunity" has started in Ufa.
285 family teams from 14 Oblasts of the Volga Federal District met to undergo a series of intellectual, creative and sports tests united by the theme "Being a family." The winners of the semi-final will represent their Oblast in July 2026 in the final of the competition in Moscow and compete for the main prizes – 60 certificates for 5 million rubles each to improve housing conditions for the winners and family trips for the finalists. The Volga Oblast became one of the most popular in terms of the number of applications this season: 140,000 people – nearly 40,000 family teams from all 14 Oblasts – fought for the chance to reach the semi-final from this federal district. As a result, 285 families received tickets to Ufa.
The Ufa semi-final features family teams from all 14 Oblasts of the Volga Federal District. There are 39 families from Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, 30 from Samara Oblast, 29 from Perm Krai, 28 families from the Udmurt Republic, 27 teams each from the Republic of Bashkortostan and Penza Oblast, 19 from Orenburg Oblast, 16 from Saratov Oblast, 14 families each from the Republic of Tatarstan and the Chuvash Republic, 12 teams from Kirov Oblast, 11 teams each from Ulyanovsk Oblast and the Republic of Mordovia, and 8 families from the Mari El Republic.
In total, there are over 1,500 people at the venue, including 572 children, 520 parents, 353 representatives of the grandparents' generation and 4 great-grandmothers. The youngest participants in the semi-final are 5 years old, and the oldest is Zoya Petrovna from the Savinov family of the Ulyanovsk Oblast, who is 90 years old. Family teams representing three generations of a family, numbering from 4 to 6 people, participate in the in-person semi-finals. The other members of the family teams support their relatives at home.
On the competition days of May 12 and 13, families will go through a series of intellectual, sports and creative tests, which will begin with a quiz from the Russian Znanie Society – "Znanie.Game." All tasks are united by the common theme "Being a family," and some of them are dedicated to the cultural code of Russia – the key theme of the second season. The culmination of the semi-final will be an awards ceremony on May 14, where the names of the winning families will be announced. The district semi-finals of the "It's a Family Tradition" competition of the presidential platform "Russia – a Land of Opportunity" have been taking place from November 2025 to May 2026 for families from all federal districts. In total, 726,191 people registered for participation in the second season – that's 196,576 families from 89 Oblasts of Russia together with their relatives living in 82 countries.
For reference: The presidential platform "Russia – a Land of Opportunity" was created on the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 22, 2018. The platform's mission is to create Russia's future by opening equal opportunities for everyone. The platform helps any person, regardless of where they live, what profession they choose and what family they grew up in, to obtain opportunities for their development. It is an open platform for communication among talented and caring people of all ages, exchanging experiences between schoolchildren, students, specialist professionals, entrepreneurs, managers and volunteers. The supervisory board of the "Russia – a Land of Opportunity" platform is chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The photo shows the Kuchin and Shimansky families. Photo is a screenshot from the organizers' video.