KaZantip (also known simply as "Z") is an electronic dance music festival held every year on the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine. The entrance ticket is called a "viZa". It takes place for 5-6 weeks in the summer and more than 150,000 "paradiZers" visit each year. There is a cult of orange colored fashion and yellow suitcases associated with the festival.
The festival is named for the Kazantyp headland near which it was held from 1995-1999. During t...
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KaZantip (also known simply as "Z") is an electronic dance music festival held every year on the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine. The entrance ticket is called a "viZa". It takes place for 5-6 weeks in the summer and more than 150,000 "paradiZers" visit each year. There is a cult of orange colored fashion and yellow suitcases associated with the festival.
The festival is named for the Kazantyp headland near which it was held from 1995-1999. During that time the festival took place inside the turbine compartment of the unfinished Crimean Nuclear Power Plant near Shchelkino. The festival was moved to the Vesyoloe settlement in 2000. Since 2001 the festival has been held in the Crimean town of Popovka. It advertises itself as a "virtual republic" with over 300 DJs on more than 14 dance floors which play 21 hours per day. The republic is held on a piece of land that is 60,000 square metres(15 acres).
The first festival was held in 1991 when Ukraine was still part of the former Soviet Union...
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