She is one of those who know what to do with their life and what to do in this life to fill it with meaning and content.

Literaturologist and folklorist Zoya Samdan is not a desk scholar. She has spent thirty-seven years collecting oral Tuvan folk art - tales and myths.

And Tuvan story-tellers, speaking in their native language and in Russian, have added their voices to members of other nations in the multi-volume series "Monuments of Folklore of Peoples of Siberia and Far East" - a huge project of Russian scholars from various republics that was begun in 1983 and continues to this day.

The epic connected with her work on two volumes of this series - "Tuvan folk tales" and "Myths, legends and traditions of Tuvans" - she considers a gift of fate.

Leonid Pavlovich Potapov, Doctor of historical sciences, Professor, Merited Scholar of Russian Federation and Tuvinian ASSR, Laureate of Stalin and State prizes of USSR. Today marks the 106^th anniversary of the scholar's birth. The 100^th anniversary of the legendary ethnographer was celebrated modestly in 2005 - only in the narrow circle of scholars in Altai, the researcher's native country.

On 13 July, the 13^th International Festival of Live Music and Faith "Ustuu-Khuree" will open in Tuva. Among the headliners of  one of the most famous music venues of Siberia are Sainkho and Garlo (France), GenDos and Svatava Drichkova (Czech Republic), Albert Kuvezin (Tuva), Sofia (Kara-ool-Dulush and Wind Instrument Orchestra of the Government of Republic Tyva, and group "Khartyga". On the opening day, there will be horse races, dedicated to 90^th anniversary of the republic and an evening concert at Chadan stadium. The concert program will be started off by Sainkho and Garlo(?).

On 20 July in Ulan-Ude in Buryatia, there will be a performance by the prominent Tuvan group Huun-Huur-Tu at the Third international festival  "Voice of the Nomads". Baikal-Buryatia".

This group has been called the model of high taste and style, which is why the group became a world-scale star, firmly entrenched within the elite of World music of the planet.  "Novaya Buryatiya" presents an interview with Radik Tyulyush - soloist of the group, with which he has been working for six years.