International Ballet Contest
In the summer of 1994 on the stage of the National Ukraine Opera the First International Ballet Contest was held named after Serge Lifar. The Sixth Lifar International Ballet Competition was held in April, 2006 and the seventh in Donetsk in March-April 2011.
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