A short list of Nora Gal © Memorial site Nora Gal On April 6, the founders of the Nora Gal prize announced a short list of the best short translations from English into Russian. According to the Prize website , in the sixth season, 80 translations were put forward for the prize, nine of them were selected in a short list: Ksenia Atamali - Philip Gregori. "Bread and Chocolate" Mikhail Nazarenko - James Branch Cabell. "Legends of Poatema" Maria Falikman is Bernard McLaverti.

The chief director of the Pokrovsky Theater was removed On April 6, by decision of the musical director of the Moscow Chamber Musical Theater named after B.A. Pokrovsky Gennady Rozhdestvensky terminated the employment contract with the chief director of the theater Mikhail Kislyarov. According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta , this decision was a consequence of a conflict of interests that arose while working on the production of the opera of Mozart “Mercy Titus”.

The Start project announced the curator of the new season © TsSI "Vinzavod" A special project to support the young art “Start” of the Center for Contemporary Art “Winzavod” announced a new curator. In the 2017/2018 season, it will be art critic and curator Vera Trakhtenberg.

The Russian premiere "Virgo in the Tower" Sibelius is being prepared © Ainola, jarvenpää axley Gallen-Callle. Portrait of Yana Sibelius. 1894 (fragment) On April 23, the first concert execution of the Opera Virgo in the Tower (Jungfrun I Tornet, 1896) will be held in Russia in Moscow-the unity of the finished opera Yana Sibelius.

Without reducing the pace, six months after the release of Acrobatenka, the group of the absurd rock “Gromyk” releases the third album “ammonia”, on which all that she was loved, - the gateful guitar riffs, dancing bit, cheerful loses of the vocalist of Maxim Koshelev and tireless junction with words and words syllables. COLTA.RU present the first song from the “ammonia” and is no longer trying to provoke a group that is considered the successors of “Noma” and “Avia” for a serious conversation.

Alexander Mamut will buy "Formula Cinema" Until May 2017, the cinema cinema network will be sold to entrepreneur Alexander Mamut. On April 6, the contract for the sale of 100% of “Formula Cinema” was signed by the current shareholders-the Alfa-group investment unit A1 and the founder of the film network Vladimir Zakharov, writes Kommersant . The transaction value is not disclosed.

1965. Cosmonauts Pavel Belyaev and Alexei Leonov are preparing for the first time in the history of mankind to go into outer space. It will turn out or not - no one knows at the flight control center. Even Korolev. But there is a cold war on Earth, and the states are trying in every possible way to tear out the championship in the space race from the USSR (the American Ed White will go into space just two and a half months after the Russian flight).

In St. Petersburg, the last address of Yuri Yurkun will be immortalized © "Young Guard" Yuri Yurkun in an apartment on Ryleyev Street, d. 17/19. Mid-1930s. Leningrad graphotography from the book O.N. Guildbrand-Arbenina "Girl Katya Sergo" On Sunday, April 9, the “Last Address” project will be installed in St. Petersburg on the house 17/19 on Ryleyev Street, where the writer and artist Yuri Yurkun was arrested in 1938.

Ekaterina Grandvot will be headed by the Festival "Stri Autumn" © JJ Kucek / Steirischer Herbst The curator, the theoretician and critic, the artistic director of the Cologne Academy of World Art, Ekaterina Dyozhn, was appointed director of the Shtyrischer Herbst (Austria) festival of contemporary art (Austria). This is stated in the message on the Facebook Festival page. Founded in 1968, Styrian Autumn is one of the oldest festivals of contemporary art in Europe.