Music in Irkutsk Oblast

Music of Russia
Genres
Classical Opera Pop Rock Bard VIA Chanson Hip hop
Specific forms
Religious music	Bell ringing Liturgical Znamenny
Traditional music	Ethnic Russian music Dumka Romance
Media and performance
Music awards	Pesnya Goda MTV RMA RAMP Golden Gramophone Ovation
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
Nationalistic and patriotic songs
National anthem	Anthem of Russia
Regional music
Local forms	Adygea Altai Astrakhan Bashkortostan Buryatia Chechnya Dagestan Evenkia Ingushetia Irkutsk Kaliningrad Kalmykia Karelia Khakassia Komi Republic Krasnodar Moldovia Mordovia Nenetsia Ossetia Rostov Ethnic Russian Sakha Tatarstan Tuva Udmurtia
Related areas	Ukraine Belarus Soviet Union

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 (a.k.a. Two Siberians (White Fort)), Printsip Neopredelyonnosti, and Chyorno-Belye Snimki [1]. The city of Irkutsk has long been a center for musical development in Siberia.

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].

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

Russian singer-songwriter Oleg Medvedev lives and works in Irkutsk.

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