Date: middle of August

Location: Kyzyl city and its surroundings (Tuva Republic, Siberia, Russia)

Take part in the tour to the festival Naadym!

Tuva is a very mysterious place. It's a very beautiful place where you don't know what will happen in a moment. And in a moment - there is another world- when the every second you are ready to cry because of overfilling emotions, when there is something new all the time: pristine nature, fresh air which breaks through the loss of consciousness, fantastic colours, another people with their centuries-old culture, music, shaman's rites. Tuva is not for two days or weeks or months, it is another thing, it can't be somehow connected with Time. Tuva is another category.

The colorful national holiday Naadym is held in the middle of August.

The programme starts with the opening of a yurt town. To take part in the best yurt contest, people bring their yurts from different regions, which don’t look the same, there are even birch bark yurts. Then there is an awards ceremony of champions in stock-breeding and best workers in agriculture. Horse race competitions, the best horse-equipping contest, archery and stone lifting competitions. Stock-breeders bring their best horses.

The main event of the holiday is national Tuvan fighting khuresh competitions. Apart from that you can enjoy the mastery of throat singing khoomei performers, horse and camel races, see the richness of national dresses, get acquainted with the original culture, language, traditions, cuisine.

In the centre of Kyzyl there will be a parade, dedicated to the Day of Republic and republican holiday of stock-breeders. Also this day Mongolian national fighting barildaa competitions continue at stadium Khuresh.

At the same time you can visit an international festival of thick felt ‘Patterns of Life on thick felt’ at Arata square in the capital of Tuva. During this festival there will be organized a trade fair of yurts and handicraft products (original gifts, authorial decorations, hand-made clothes and accessories, musical instruments etc.). There will also be the following master-classes: thick felt, souvenir drawing, ways of original decorations making.