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Hutor Fest in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky
On a working organic farm called Bio-Khutor Petrovsky, roughly fifty-five kilometers from Taganrog in Rostov Oblast, several thousand visitors gather each August for a rural-tourism festival built around organic food rather than headline bands. Now in its sixth year, Hutor Fest mixes a farmers' market, dozens of craft workshops, overnight camping, and songs around a bonfire.
Fifty-five kilometers outside Taganrog, past smaller villages most Rostov Oblast residents could not point to on a map, sits a working organic farm that spends one August day each year turning itself into a temporary village of tents, market stalls, and craft tents.