These days, the State National Ensemble of Song and Dance, “Sayany”, - one of the best known groups of the republic – celebrates its 40^th anniversary of its founding. The anniversary celebrations start on October 21 in Tuvan State Philharmony with the new program “In the Cradle of Sayans and Tandy”.

On October 20, Mariya Mongush, who is the leading specialist of the information-analytic department of the “Aldan Maadyr” National Tuvan Museum, announced to Tayga.info that some of the relics found during restoration of a broinze Buddha statue at the National Museum have been identified.
“The clerics Bayir-ool Shyyrap and Aganak Khertek announced at a press-conference that 17 objects and 23 fragments of relics which were found in the head of the Buddha statue belonged to great Buddhist teachers and prophets.