For the 125th anniversary since the birthday of the great Russian singer Nadezhda Plevitskaya, a museum dedicated to her will be open in her native Vinnikovo settlement of the Kursk Region.

South Ural archeologists have discovered remains of an enormous stone settlement of the Neolithic Age in the Island of Vera.

September 22 saw the opening of the exhibition “Children of Gods. Antique heroes in ancient and modern art” in the Kazan branch of the State Hermitage Museum.

Composer Leonid Desyatnikov has been appointed the new music director of the Bolshoi Theatre.

Novgorod archeologists are going to refuse from diggings that are not sufficiently financed, the head of Novgorod Centre for Organization and Support of Archeological Research Sergey Troyanovsky reported.

A new large-scale centre of modern art will be opened not far from the Red Square in Moscow on October the 1st.

On October 15 the Art Gallery «К35» will open Andy Warhol’s exhibition Ladies & Gentlemen.

Markov Gallery – a new concert and exhibition venue - will be opened in Saint Petersburg.

A monument to Dmitrii Shostakovich will be unveiled on the 25th September, 2009, marking the 103th anniversary since the composer’s birthday.

An exhibition of unique archive documents will be opened in the Novgorod Kremlin on the 18 September for the 1150th anniversary of Veliki Novgorod to be celebrated on September 19th and 20th.