The city of

Irkutsk Irkutsk ( ; rus, Иркутск, p=ɪrˈkutsk; Buryat language, Buryat and mn, Эрхүү, ''Erhüü'', ) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. With a population of 617,473 as of the 2010 Census, Irkutsk is ...

is the administrative center of

Irkutsk Oblast Irkutsk Oblast (russian: Ирку́тская о́бласть, Irkutskaya oblast; bua, Эрхүү можо, Erkhüü mojo) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and Nizh ...

, 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''. The city of Irkutsk has long been a center for musical development in

Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part of ...

Music institutions

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.Musical life
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Musicians

The bass singer Leonid Kharitonov was born in the village of Golumet in the

in 1933. Russian singer-songwriter

Oleg Medvedev Oleg Medvedev (born 14 June 1985) is a Russian luge athlete. Along with Ivan Nevmerzhitski he placed twentieth in the two man luge doubles in the 2008–09 Luge World Cup. In 2009 at the world championships in Lake Placid, New York Lake Placid ...

lives and works in

References

Culture of Irkutsk Oblast

Indigenous music {{Russia-stub