Plans for the organization of mutual touring activities and the participation of artists of the Astrakhan region and Turkmenistan in significant cultural events of each other next year, 2024, were considered at a meeting at the Ministry of External Relations of the JSC on Wednesday.

I International Forum of Composers of the Countries The Caspian Sea will be held in Astrakhan as part of the International Festival of Classical Art "Caspian Seasons — 2023", which will be held in the Russian city from August 22 to September 6.

The opening ceremony of the International Festival of Classical Art "Caspian Seasons – 2023" will be held in Astrakhan on Tuesday. The concert program will be attended by leading performers from the Caspian states - Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan.

In 2024, the world community will widely celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of the great poet and philosopher Magtymguly Fragi. Cultural, creative and scientific events in honor of this event will also be held in Russia. One of the places where the memory of the poet is honored is the Astrakhan region - a number of actions dedicated to the creativity and spiritual heritage of Magtymguly are planned to be held here.

An exhibition of works by talented Turkmen artists opened on Monday at the Exhibition Hall of the Lebap regional branch of the Union of Artists of Turkmenistan. The exposition was decorated with new works that the masters of the brush created during the creative forum, held in the city of Turkmenabad from August 15 to 21.

A master class on cooking Turkmen pilaf is scheduled to be held as part of the “Tasty Kazan” gastronomic festival, which is timed to the tenth anniversary of the Universiade held in the capital of Tatarstan. Guests of the event will be able to taste dishes from 80 city restaurants and cafes.

On August 24, the grand opening of the Week of Ukrainian Cinema will take place at the Ashgabat cinema in the capital. This was reported to an ORIENT correspondent at the Embassy of Ukraine in Turkmenistan.

Famous film director Timur Bekmambetov intends to develop the Kazakh film industry and create a new cinema language in the genre of screenlife — life on the screen, telling about digital life. He shared his ideas and projects with the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, with whom a meeting was held, the press service of Akorda reports.

The regional stage of the creative review "Çalsana, bagşy!" ended in the Lebap region. The final round of the competition was held in the building "White Yurt of Turkmens" in the city of Turkmenabad, where the best folk musicians and bakhshi of the region showed their skills and performing talents.

The creative evening of Turkmen musicians – the famous pianist Vladimir Mkrtumov and the talented violinist Aybolek Muhiyeva, which was held with great success in the Moscow House of Nationalities in the summer, can be called nothing else but "talents and fans". By a lucky chance, I happened to be in Moscow these days and got to this magnificent concert organized by the Moscow Society of Turkmen Culture. When I saw how the highest musical light of the Russian capital honored and applauded musicians from Turkmenistan, of course, I began to burst with pride.