Music in Irkutsk Oblast

Music of Russia
Genres
Classical Pop Rock Jazz Bard VIA Chanson Hip hop Psytrance
Specific forms
Religious music	Bell ringing Liturgical Znamenny
Traditional music	Ethnic Russian music Dumka
Media and performance
Music awards	Pesnya Goda MTV RMA RAMP Golden Gramophone Ovation Silver Galosh
Music charts	Zvukovaya Dorozhka MK Chart Dozen
Music festivals	Grushinsky Nashestvie Afisha Picnic Empty Hills more...
Music media	Nashe Maximum NRJ MTV Russia Muz TV A-One
National anthem	Anthem of Russia
Regional music
Local forms	Adygea — Altai - Astrakhan - Bashkortostan — Buryatia — Chechnya — Chukotka — Chuvashia — Dagestan — Evenkia - Ingushetia — Irkutsk — Kaliningrad — Kalmykia — Kamchatka — Karelia — Khakassia — Khantia-Mansia - Komi Republic - Krasnodar — Mari El — Mordovia — Nenetsia — Ossetia — Rostov — Ethnic Russian — Sakha — Sakhalin — Tatarstan — Tuva — Udmurtia
Related areas	Ukraine Belarus Soviet music
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The city of Irkutsk is the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, both of which produced several famous popular musicians and have a number of styles of folk music. Musicians from Irkutsk include the rock bands Bely Ostrog, Printsip Neopredelyonnosti, and Chyorno-Belye Snimki [1]. The city of Irkutsk has long been a center for musical development in Siberia.

Music institutions

The Irkutsk Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in the 1850s. The first major school of musical education was founded in 1899, followed a few years later by the opening of the Irkutsk branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society. Other music institutions include the Irkutsk Chamber Orchestra [2].

Musicians

The bass singer Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov was born in the village of Golumet in the Irkutsk Oblast in 1933.

References

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