The President will visit fairs and exhibitions and speak to forum participants.
The 2018 Mashuk North Caucasus Youth Educational Forum in Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Territory, has been held in Komsomolskaya Polyana at the foot of Mountain Mashuk since 2010. About 20,000 people have taken part in the forum in the eight years since it began.
This year, the forum is taking place between August 10 and 24, and has been attended by almost 2,000 representatives from the North Caucasus Federal District and other Russian regions as well as from near and far-abroad countries. The event has two sessions, Volunteering (August 10–17) and Civil Society (August 17–24).