At the end of December, the Simbirsk magazine published their final issue of 2022. It traditionally presented News of the Ulyanovsk UNESCO City of Literature Program. In this issue,  the article is dedicated to the Crossroads, a UNESCO Cities festival, which took place in September 2022.
 The event was hosted by the Ulyanovsk UNESCO City of Literature program team, the Department of Culture and Leisure of the Population of the Administration of Ulyanovsk, Ulyanovsk: Cultural Capital, the Fund for Creative Technologies, and Centralized Library System of Ulyanovsk with the support of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO.
 At the end of 2022, the Crossroads festival won The Creative Event of the Year title of the Ulyanovsk Region: Creative Region, the II Regional Prize in the field of creative industries.
 We thank Elena Viktorovna Kuvshinnikova, the editor-in-chief of the issue, for cooperation!