On November 18, in Novosibirsk, the premiere of the opera-Bylina Alexander Grechaninov “Dobrynya Nikitich” will be held. The composition will sound in a live performance for the first time in Siberia and the third time in Russia in general. The chief conductor of the Russian academic orchestra of Russia Vladimir Gusev and the head of the Khorovo ensemble “Markellov Voices” Igor Tyuvaev told Taiga.info, why the national Russian opera was forgotten for a whole century.

On November 17, the hockey club "Siberia" won a meeting in Khabarovsk against the local team "Amur" with a score of 6:1, scoring five goals in the second period. The team remains in the penultimate place of the East division, but has reduced the gap from the playoff zone. November 17 hockey club "Siberia" won a guest game in Khabarovsk against the local "Amur" with a score of 6:1, scoring five goals in the second period, the official website of the Continental Hockey League.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) appealed to Sberbank and Vnesheconombank with an appeal not to make decisions on financing the construction of especially dangerous facilities, such as the Boguchanskaya hydroelectric power station, without an environmental assessment. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) called on banks to demand an environmental examination when making a decision on lending to the construction of the Boguchansky hydroelectric power station, the fund's website reported.

The higher budget will allocate 3 billion rubles for the repair and reconstruction of the Baikal federal highway in the Nizhneingashsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The head of the region Alexander Khloponin agreed on the financing of the transport facility with the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Igor Levitin.

Rostrud approved the allocation of additional funds to the Krasnoyarsk Territory to combat unemployment. Funds in the amount of 100 million rubles will go to the regional budget in early December. They are planned to be spent on temporary employment and organization of internships for graduates.

Four people were killed and 15 were injured in an accident involving a passenger bus, which performed the Sharypovo -Krasnoyarsk flight. The bus rolled over in the afternoon of November 17, when the driver tried to go around the vehicle in the oncoming lane. © Press Service of the traffic police department in the Krasnoyarsk Territory The passenger flight bus, which was following from Sharypovo to Krasnoyarsk, crashed 43 kilometers from Nazarovo in the afternoon of November 17.

A 49-year-old resident of the Omsk region was found guilty of committing 16 counts of fraud. An individual entrepreneur, having deceived 26 citizens, illegally received loans in the amount of about two million rubles.

Too much grain was harvested in the Novosibirsk region. Demand and prices for wheat remain low. In this situation, the authorities of the region decided to provide state support to agricultural producers and buyers of Novosibirsk grain. On November 16, the Novosibirsk Region Administration Council approved a bill on additional measures of state support for grain producers in the region, Tayi.info reported.

Nikolai Dygirov, an employee of the patrol service of Irkutsk, was found guilty under the article on the receipt of a bribe by an official for illegal inaction. He collected 200 rubles a day from prostitutes, promising not to hold them accountable in return.

The authorities of the Krasnoyarsk Territory will mint 35 silver coins as souvenirs. The appearance of the coin will completely repeat the coin that was minted in Siberia from 1763 to 1781. The authorities of the Krasnoyarsk Territory plan to mint silver coins. As reported in the official materials of the administration of the governor and the government of the region, the coin will be ready at the end of December 2009 in the amount of 35 pieces.

In the Kemerovo region, a guilty verdict was passed on a man who crushed a child with a skid steer loader. For his crime, he received a three-year suspended sentence, with a three-year probationary period. The court delivered a guilty verdict against the driver of a miniloader who crushed a nine-year-old child in Kemerovo.

The duo of Tomsk drummers Percussion Projec became the only group from Siberia who took part in the program of the First Channel "Minute of Glory". You can see Tomsk residents and take part in the audience voting on December 11 of the year on Channel One. The Tomsk drum show team Percussion Projec took part in the program of the First Channel of the public Russian television "Minute of Glory".

Forced holidays in the municipal educational institutions of Irkutsk have been extended until November 20 due to the increased incidence of SARS and influenza in schoolchildren. According to Rospotrebnadzor, the number of sick children exceeds three thousand people. Forced holidays in the municipal educational institutions of Irkutsk due to the unfavorable situation with influenza and SARS were again extended - this time until November 20, Tayge.info reported on November 17, acting.

Two women died in Tuva, presumably from "swine" flu. In their analyzes, RNA of the virus was detected. The disease is also suspected in five more residents of the republic. Two people died in Tuva, presumably from "swine" flu, a spokesman for the republic's government told Taiga.info on November 17. “Two women who died on November 12 and 13, aged 25 and 34, were found to have swine flu virus RNA in their swabs.

The joint conference of the Council of Shaman Communities and the Council of Elders of the Baikal region will take place in the Irkutsk House of Friendship on November 27. The clergy will think about how to return to the historical place the ancestral Buryat shrine - the mummy of a three-month-old girl, which is located in the Taltsy Museum in Irkutsk.