Tuva.Asia / The New Research of Tuva

Commencing from July, 1 to August, 30 the National Museum of the Republic of Tuva starts the summer campaign “Night Museum”, which implies its working hours’ extension until 9.00 pm every Thursday during the period. All of the museum rooms are to be available for visitors, including the hall “Treasures of the Valley of Kings”.

The campaign is run upon recommendation of the Ministry of Culture of Russia and designed to attract visitors during evening hours.

We hope the “Night Museum” will find its followers and will take its place among all the campaigns held by the National Museum. We invite everyone to attend the first “Night Museum” evening which is to be on July, 5. Doors open from 10.00 am till 9.00 pm. In case of positive response the campaign could become an annual event.

The summer training for young scholars majoring in Mongolian studies launched on Thursday for the tenth time. Co-organized by the National Association on Mongolian Studies and the Mongolian State University of Education, this year's training is attended by 24 scholars from the USA, Russia, Poland, China, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Turkey. They will be lectured by outstanding teachers and scholars of the Academy of Sciences, the Mongolian State University, the Mongolian State University of Education and the University of Agriculture on Mongolian on subjects of history, culture, religion, literature, archeology and nomadic economy. Furthermore, the trainees will get acquainted with the Mongolian traditional lifestyle. It gives to them a chance to cooperate with many scholars of scientific organizations of Mongolia. The training will last until July 14.

The scientists of the Ubsunur center published the photo album “The Mongun-Taiga massif. Alpine landscape” (Abakan. Journalist, 2012) specially for the 10^th International Ubsunur symposium “Ecosystems of Central Asia: research, conservation and rational exploitation” (July 3-8,  2012, Kyzyl), devoted to the 20^th anniversary of the Tyva Republic and SB RAS biospheric research International Ubsunur Center. The album contains the results of the alpine ecosystems monitoring such as the elements of the Upper Shara-Kharagai River  landscape and flora. The scientists described the landscapes of the four tops the Mongun-Taiga massif and almost all the kinds of plants they met on the research area. The kinds of the plants were given Russin and Latin names. The work was done with the help of the Ubsunur Hollow Reserve staff. The album has 374 pages, number of copies is 500.

The price for one copy is 300 rubles. 

 The grand opening of the International Festival of Throat Singing Performers Dembildey – 2012 to take place onstage at the National Theatre named after Victor Kok-ool on the 6^th of July in Kyzyl.

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tuva, Kyzyl City Hall and the Center of Development of Tuvan Traditional Culture and Crafts are the founders of the event.

The main goals of the Festival - supporting new names and teams among throat singing artists, development and improvement of interregional and international cultural relations, providing opportunities for sharing experiences, raising the professional level of the throat singers as well as creativity support for ornamental artists.

 Dembildey - 2012 is dedicated to the 50^th anniversary of the Honored Artist of Russian Federation, National Khoomeyzhi of the Republic of Tuva, Honored Worker of Education of the Republic of Tuva, Laureate of State Prize of the Republic of Tuva, the director of the Center of Development of Tuvan Traditional Culture and Crafts Kongar-ool Ondar.