From November 30 to December 01, 2018, in Novosibirsk, the VIII International Festival of Friendship of Turkic Peoples “Siberian Chaikhana (Teahouse)” was held.

The festival was organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Novosibirsk Region, the Novosibirsk Regional Tatar Cultural Center, the Regional Tatar National-Cultural Autonomy of the Novosibirsk Region with the support of the Government of the Novosibirsk Region, the Novosibirsk Mayor’s Office, and the World Congress of Tatars.

The festival was attended by: Turkic scholars, masters of arts and crafts, Turkic artisans, creative professional and amateur groups and soloists of the regions of Russia and the cities of the Turkic Republics: Novosibirsk, Altai Republic, Tatarstan Republic, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Irkutsk Region , the city of Kemerovo and the Kemerovo region, the city of Tomsk, etc. For the first time the Turkic  people «tofalar»   of the Nizhneudinsky district of the Irkutsk region from village  Alygzher where   only a helicopter can fly  took part.