On 1 June, during the 10^th International theatre festival of Turkic nations "Nauruz", actors of  V. Kok-ool Theater of music and drama presented their show "Kultegin", based on E. Mizhit's play, on the stage of K. Tinchurin Tatar theatre of comedy and drama. The hall was packed. The show went on in one breath, in the opinion  of both the actors and the audience, with exciting emotional acting of the performers, who put all 100% into it.

The festival's experts, in judging the play, especially noted the expressive acting of Oleg Sat and Stanislav Iril, and the feminine acting of actress Aizana Chylbak-ool. The director-producer of the play Alexei Oorzhak played  the role of Alp Eletmish.  The specialists called the show "virile" and Tuvan theatre in general special. The main theme of "Kultegin", as the theme of brotherhood of Turkic nations, turned out to be very much in harmony with the idea of festival "Nauruz".

The roles of Kultegin, Bilge and Eres-Turan as little kids were played by Tatar boys in Tatar language, and during the play they sang Tatar chastushkas (short songs). Director Alexei Oorzhak used a similar approach in Turkey at International Adana Theatre Festival in 2009, because of difficulties with bringing under-age artists abroad.

Unfortunately, there was not enough of the technology of simultaneous translation for the whole auditorium. But many of the spectators, who had no translation, said that they understood everything. Tatar colleagues thanked our artists after the show for "Giving water to our roots, which were beginning to dry out."