On August 19, the presentation of the book of verse of the famous poet, historian and publicist Andzhey Ikonnikov-Galitskiy from Sankt-Peterburg, “The Road to Mongun-Taiga”, will take place at the National Museum of Tuva.

The book was published by the Petersburg publishing house “Baltiiskie sezony” in 2009. On June 1, the initial presentation took place in Sankt-Peterburg, at the Vladimir Nabokov Museum.

Just before the Archeologist’s Day, the leadership of Tuva, representatives of the Yenisei Industrial Company, organs of local administration, representatives of educational institutions, spent some time in the famous archeological complex of South Siberia, “Valley of Kings”, where a large number of kurgans from the Scytian times is concentrated, and where, according to plans, is the projected path of the Kuragino-Kyzyl railroad.

Excavations of an entire chain of royal burials in the Valley of Kings (Pii-Khem district, Tuva), are being conducted by archeologists of Tuvan expedition under the leadership of Candidate of historical sciences Vladimir Semyonov.

1.5 kilometers from the settlement Arzhaan, the archeologists are finishing up the excavation of an elite kurgan, with preliminary dating of 6^th century before our era.

The British media again have been very excited about the way the Russian Premier Vladimir Putin spends his vacation, and they exhort the British to follow his example.

As the correspondents of RIA Novosti report, the theme of Putin’s one-day Tuvan vacation never left the headlines of British newspapers, main pages of internet-sites, and news television channels over the past two days.

2010 will be a major jubileum for the creators of the legendary film, an “Oscar” laureate, “Dersu Uzala”. Vladimir Vasilyev, the Moscow colleague of the Japanese director, prepared a book “Emperor of Japanese Cinema” for Akira Kurosawa’s 100^th anniversary of birth. Among other things, the book tells of the legendary Tuvan actor who portrayed the title role in the Oscar winning film, Maksim Monguzhukovich Munzuk.

Kaigal-ool Khovalyg, famous throughout the world for unique throat singing, introduced the entire beauty of Tuvan khoomei to Vladimir Putin. Khoomei sounded in a camp on the shores of Khemchik river, in the light of a camp fire. The legendary throat singer, on a par with Vladimir Vysotski in the world anthology of musical arts, was accompanied by two famous ensembles – “Huun-Huur-Tu” and “Chirgilchin”, whose international tour schedules are booked for years in advance.

Buddhist relics, which will be exhibited in the National Museum of Tuva from 8^th to 16^th August, will be used to consecrate the Buddhist temple complex “Ustuu-Khuree” which is growing by Chadan, as well as Buddhist stupas, hospitals, shelters, and other social institutions. This was discussed at the regular meeting of the organizing committee for the preparation and execution of the exhibition of the sacred relics “Maitreya Project”. The committee is headed by the minister of culture and information politics of RT, Vyacheslav Dongak.

“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way—by rote or something,” physicist Richard Feynman once said. “Their knowledge is so fragile!”

Maybe Feynman’s brain was big enough to simply “learn by understanding”—sucking in and comprehending complex realities in a single glance. But what I think he actually meant was that people should learn by exploringand investigating, rather than just memorizing. Only then would their knowledge be useful and durable.

From July 17 to July 19, in Gorno-Altaisk, in Elanda, the Festival of World Music “Altai” took place. It was organized by the ensemble “Altai-Kai” and the administration of Gorno-Altausk with the support of the ministry of culture of Republic Altai. It was the first attempt to have this kind of an event on the territory of the city, which brought together musicians and performers not just from the Siberian region, but even from far beyond the borders of the republic. Among the participants were guests from Kalmykia, Tyva, Khakassia, Sakha Yakutia, Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, France and America

In Tuva, the official program and symbol of Naadym-2009, the holiday of Tuvan animal herders, have now been confirmed. The festival will take place on July 30-31 in Sut-Khol district, which won the honor to host the final and most spectacular part of the chief holiday of Tuva, for the successes in the socio-economic development.