Scientists opposed the renaming of Timofeev-Resovsky Street in Yekaterinburg © Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolai Vladimirovich Timofeev-Rresovsky (1900-1981) Russian and German scientists turned to the authorities of Yekaterinburg with a request to cancel the decision to rename the street named after the biologist and genetics of Nikolai Timofeev-Resovsky. Timofeev-Rresovsky Street appeared in the construction project of one of the new city quarters in 2006.

The charity show of the play "Princess/Mermaid" is being prepared © Daria Blorova Today, on May 6, the charity project “Artist artist”, created by the choreographer and curator Alexandra Rudik, together with the Dance Help platform and Elena Panasenko, organizes the online show of Daria Poklova “Princess/Mermaid” in support of the creative laboratory “Corner” of the Living City Foundation.

The first and most detailed article from the cycle about the past, present and future of Victory Day is devoted to the least studied period in the history of military commemoration in the USSR - the first two post -war decades. What was May 9 in those years, did Stalin abolished Victory Day in 1947 and why was he returned to weekend status in 1965?

Colta.ru talked with Konstantin Shavlovsky, film critic and co -founder of the Word Order project, and found out what happened to the store for these weeks and how to help here. 1. What happened to you since the beginning of March? In March, all our stores closed-bookstores in the Stanislavsky electricity theater and on the new stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, as well as the main platform-“Word Order” on the Fontanka 15.

Florian Schneider died © Electronic Sound Today, May 6, at the age of 73, a German musician, co -founder of Kraftwerk, Florian Schneider, died. It is reported by Billboard . Florian Schneider Esleben was born in 1947 in Düsseldorf, studied there at the University of Music and Media named after Robert Schuman. Having become an academic flutist, he continued his musical education in Cologne and Remshaid, also played the violin and guitar.

We will support independent cultural institutions? Today, May 6, the COLTA.RU website begins the action in support of independent cultural institutions, which were in a difficult situation due to quarantine introduced in connection with the pandemia of the Covid-19 coronavirus. Our friends - independent theaters, museums, galleries, concert halls, publishers, bookstores - were in trouble. In a situation where their usual work stopped, they are forced to take care of themselves.

Polina Aronson continues to observe what is happening in the minds and practices of people “in the fields of quarantine” . This time, Vladislav Zemenkov took part in the observations. I am sitting in a high spinning chair in some laboratory, people gathered around me in surgical masks and white robes. They are going to cut off my head and sew a new one. Everything is very everyday, planned operation.

Colta.ru talked with Yuri Muravitsky, the artistic director of the Rostov Theater “18+”, and found out what happened to them during these weeks and how to help here. 1. What happened to you since the beginning of March?

Culture and science figures are asked to free Yuri Dmitriev from custody © 2014, Vladimir Mekler / "Sandarmokh" More than 150 Russian scientists, teachers, writers, translators, critics, directors, artists, art historians, composers, musicians and artists signed an open letter to the chairman of the Supreme Court of Karelia Anatoly Knuvas with a request to release from the pre -trial detention center of the historian Yuri Dmitriev.

Charity auction "photographers - doctors" is held © Evgeny Serov Evgeny Serov. Pushitsa (Magadan region, Olsky district, Yansky lakes). 2016 Until May 10, a charitable campaign will last in support of Russian doctors “photographers - doctors”, which is organized by the Academy “Brush” together in the Living Foundation and the EVERYDAYRUSSIA project.

The Glandborns festival and "Arena di Verona" were canceled On May 5, it became known that this year, due to restrictive measures introduced in the UK and Italy in connection with the pandemia of the Covid-19 Coronavirus, large opera festivals-Glaindborns Festival and the Arena Dee Verona will not take place. Glandborns Festival was originally planned to be held from May 21 to August 30. On March 18, the organizers of the festival announced the abolition of all the performances until July 14.

A few days ago, the Word/Slovo publishing house announced the release of a book of art historian, critic, curator and teacher, Philip Daverio, the unity of non -present in Italy. The art uniting Europe. " The author of the “Games in Painting” tells about the largest museums of the Apennine Peninsula and Mediterranean, the Pyrenee Peninsula, Western, Central and Eastern Europe (this section included the State Hermitage and the MiMI named after A.S. Pushkin).

V-ROX festival was postponed to 2021 On May 5, the organizers of the V-ROX 2020 International Musical Festival announced its transfer for next year due to the pandemic of the Coronavirus Covid-19. “We are very worried about the health of our spectators and participants, and we hope for a meeting in Vladivostok in 2021,” the V-ROX Organizing Committee, posted on the festival website , said.

A union of jazz musicians will appear in Russia © Initiative group to create the Russian Union of Jazz Musicians Alexei Kozlov Alexey Kozlov, Mariam Merabova, Alina Rostotskaya, Eteri Beriashvili, Dmitry Ilugdin, Tatyana Balakirskaya and other stars of domestic jazz and improvisational music entered the initiative group that announced the creation of the Russian Union of Jazz musicians. This is stated in the press release, which entered the editor of Colta.ru.