Celebrating the days of Slavic writing and culture in Smolensk. These days coincided with the birthday of the city, which was 1127 years. The history of the former settlement of the tribe of Krivichi on the “route from the Varangians to the Greeks”, with the founders of the Slavic alphabet of Cyril and Methodius, on the occasion tell Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, the Minister of culture of Russia Yuri Solomin, writer Valentin Rasputin and others.