VASTOMA
“VASTOMA” (“Meeting”), Mordovian folk lore and ethnographic ensemble at Sadovka ru ral culture house of Sterlitamak district of RB. Established in 1993. In 2003, it earned the title “People’s”. The founder and artistic director is N.E. Artamonov. The repertoire lists more than 60 songs, including the samples of Mordovian song folklore, which were brought from Penza guberniya province by the ancestors of the in habitants of village Sadovka in the late 18th century: “In the woods walks Mashura”, “Thought and guessed”, “Kiryusha’s Marya”, “People walk...”, “This field, field”, etc, as well as “Oh, in a field...”, “I go into the woods”, “Let us be friends”, “Erzyan Polinochka”; Russian folk songs, etc. V. is a winner of the Grand Prix of the re gional festivalcompetition of ancient ethic wedding ceremonies “We played a wedding in the old days...” (Sterlitamak, 2019). Winner of international, regional, and other festivals and competitions.
