The date of opening the XIII international festival of live music and faith Ustuu-Huree is finally fixed! It will be on the 13th of July.

Festival was established in 1998 by the group of musicians and journalists. The author of idea and director of festival is musician Igor Dulush. This festival is dedicated to the repairement of the buddist temple Ustuu-Khuree in the west Tyva. Temple was built by Thibet architect in 1907 and destroyed in thirtees of XXth century when local authority copied all things from Soviet Russia's authority including antireligional policy. In that time all tuvan temples were destroyed. Nothing has left. Dalai-Lama XIVth visited Ustuu-Khuree's ruins in 1992 and told: "The lamp of this temple is still on". Villia Khaslavskaia, the architect from Moscow, has made project of reconstruction of the main temple of Ustuu-Khuree. One of the festival's main goals is the attracting public attention to the problem of reconstuction of this unique temple.

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