At the gala night, which usually falls on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, the attendants recited poetic works of President Ho Chi Minh and well-known Vietnamese poets, and introduced their new works, some written in Vietnamese, about their homeland, love and friendship.

Journalist and historian Yevgeni Kobelev, who 50 years ago came to Vietnam to learn Vietnamese, quoted various Vietnamese verses and folk verses to recall his deep memories of the time when he studied and worked in Vietnam.

A retired journalist, Sergey Afonin, read his works in Vietnamese in praise of the land and people of Vietnam, which he called his second motherland.

The poetic night, initiated by the Vietnam Arts and Literature Association in Russia, has become an annual cultural exchange event in Russia since 1995.