The year 2004 has been announced the Year of the Belarusian Culture in Russia. This unprecedented and large-scale action includes tours of art collectives of the republic, exhibitions, cinema demonstrations and a range of other significant events, a correspondent of BelTA has been informed in the Belarusian embassy in Russia. The National Academic Bolshoi Theater of the Republic of Belarus will tour in Moscow in April. The theater will perform the opera of Musorgskiy “Khovanschina” and the ballet of Prokofyev “Romeo and Juliet” for the residents of the Russian capital. The exhibition “100 masterpieces of the National Art Museum of Belarus” will be opened in January in the Tretiakov gallery. Events within the framework of the Year of the Belarusian Culture will be held all over Russia. The national concert orchestra of Belarus conducted by maestro Mikhail Finberg prepares a big concert program for 60th anniversary of liberation of the republic, which will be presented in towns of the Russian “Golden Ring”. Belarusian masters will give gala-concerts in several oblast centers. Masters of the Belarusian variety art – the ensembles “Pesniary”, “The Belarusian pesniary”, “Siabry”, Yadviga Poplavskaya and Alexander Tikhonovich as well as young performers will take part in concerts. The Days of the Belarusian Cinema will be held in Novosibirsk. Literary soirees dedicated to opening of a monument to Frantsysk Skaryna will be held in Kaliningrad. A monument to Yanka Kupala will be erected in Moscow.