
Administration of Mansky District, Ministry of Culture and Sport of Krasnoyarsk Region organize the XII Regional art song festival "Vladimir Vysotsky and Siberia". The program of festival includes many of the participants and guests. The festival takes place July 22-24 on the banks of Mana River.
Vladimir Vysotsky was an iconic Soviet-Russian singer, songwriter, poet, and actor whose career had an immense and enduring effect on Russian culture. Although best known as a singer-songwriter, he was also a prominent stage and screen actor. His popularity in Soviet Russia was enormous, and he became widely known for his unique singing style and for his lyrics, which featured social and political commentary in often humorous street jargon. One of the best movies, where Vysotsky appeared, took place on the bank of the Siberian mountain river Mana.