On 27 March 2011 an ethnocultural event "Siberian shamanism" took place in Tomsk. Anybody could participate in it for free.

The event took place in the conference hall of Student business-incubator of TUSUR at 15:00 hours. Scientific reports of ethnographers and students who research shamanism had been presented in the program. The guests learned about the stories of descendants of real shamans of Buryatia, Tuva and Yakutia, they saw scenes from documentary films about shamanism, were able to take a workshop in playing the khomus (jaw harp, vargan) and to try folk dishes, the recipes for which, according to the organizers, have been handed down from generation to generation.

The event was prepared by a group of Tomsk residents led by Elena Popova, representing an initiative group of the project "Center "Friendship of peoples", and Evgeniy Kurochkin, who represents an Art-partnership "Novaya zemlya".

"Almost all the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and Far East continue to adhere to shamanism, - states the notice of the event.  - Shamanism is a religion of deification of nature, its elemental phenomena, as well as of ascribing spirit to the entire surrounding animate and inanimate world. The main fate of a human being is to live in harmony with Nature, with himself and with people around him. That is what the tales, legends, and clan stories teach us…"

A seminar in shamanism also recently transpired in Irkutsk (19 March 2011).  The cost of admittance was 1500 rubles. It was oriented towards those who have never encountered the subject of shamanism or for those who want to systematize their knowledge. The seminar, according to information from the organizers, was conducted by practicing shamans, specialists in ethnopsychology, with participation of workers of the Center for study of shamanism of the Buryat State University. Among the themes of the seminar were such as "Selection of a totem", "Cultic places (power places)", "City shamans. Problems and perspectives.", "Shamanic practices - ritual techniques", and "Ethnobotany. Sacral and ritual plants".