The research article is devoted to the historical origin of the first music means: rhythm, tone, melody, etc. There are emphasized original functions of these means – the organization of the process of performance, music-making. Appearing in a situation of collective music-making, these means serve as an agreement, without which the collective performance is not possible acquiring in the future numerous artistic and expressive functions. These funds remain the basis of its great features, the once historically spawned their organization of the music making process. The research method is genealogical analysis. The first means of music historically arise as, first of all, performing means. In the future, the means acquire the functions of expression and awareness, developing already at the stage of syncretic soundmaking into artistic means in the proper sense. The means of awareness turn sound-making into a multistage process of development.

The article attempts to study the "Krasnoyarsk period" of the artist Mikhail Rutchenko on the basis of archival documents and information gleaned from local periodicals of the pre-revolutionary period. The study emphasizes the influence of Rutchenko on the formation of creative processes of the city through pedagogical work in the field of art education, exhibition activities, social and cultural initiatives. Rutchenko gave the artistic forces of Siberia a centrifugal movement, wanting to strengthen the region with internal creative power, to consolidate the sprouts of artistic forces on the ground, to form a scenario of cultural development that would weaken the outflow of personnel from the provinces and allow local artists to develop fully away from the center of Russia.

This work is devoted to determining the role of the author's worldview in art and identifying the forms of its expression. The work discusses the main stages of the creative path of the outstanding Krasnoyarsk painter Andrei Gennadievich Pozdeev, one of the largest artists of the second half of the twentieth century, who received all-Russian fame. The analysis of the most representative works in order to correlate his philosophical and artistic searches. A.G. Pozdeev in his work has gone a way similar to the stages of development of modern art from the fascination with impressionism to the philosophical generalization of images and stylization of form to a symbolic level. Having achieved recognition both among ordinary viewers and in the professional community, the artist changes his style and begins to create compositions dedicated to the fundamental principles of human existence. The names of the works of this period reflect the themes of his worldview searches: The Last Supper, Prayer for the Chalice, Golgotha, and the cycle The Human Life. The factors determining this process are studied. The worldview is endowed with a special role and significance in the implementation of the author’s artistic concept and system of artistic images. The ways by which the author expresses his worldview in the work are considered.

The article is devoted to the study of youth culture as a cultural phenomenon through the analysis of its morphological essence, different types and functions that it performs in society. To do this, the author refers to some theoretical and methodological foundations of modern social Sciences and Humanities (cultural studies, philosophy, axiology, sociology, etc.) associated with the study of youth culture and the definition of the corresponding concept. The object of the research is youth culture as a cultural phenomenon. The subject of the research is culturological features of modern youth culture. The aim of the study is to analyze the cultural characteristics of youth culture. The author's task is to identify the specifics of modern youth culture, as well as the classification of scientific approaches to the study of the problems of culture of different generations, the formation and development of youth culture. As a result, various approaches to youth culture are identified and the grounds for a deeper cultural analysis of this phenomenon are revealed.

The problem of loss cultural identity significantly effects on all modern cities regardless of their status. The main objective is the historical and cultural environment regeneration specifics determination of the formerly Russian city, isolated for more than half a century from its own country due to difficult historical events. The regeneration experience is considered on example of the huge scale project realization of the Harbin Railway Museum, designed according to the image of the Harbin Railway Station existed until 1959, captured on historical photographs, postcards. The research result shows that the museum building is successfully fitted into the existing urban environment; the district infrastructure is significantly improved due to the creation of park areas, the construction of additional highways on the former railway tracks. This article describes the original architectural design decisions, assuming maximum use of cultural, stylistic features of the Harbin urban environment and results of its implementation. Return to the Russian cultural heritage in China is a vivid example, demonstrating a successful and, at the same time, harmonious coexistence of different cultures together. The experience of the Harbin Railway Museum project realization may be applied both into the design of new or already existing buildings.

The restoration of Russian Orthodox architectural monuments in the North-East of China has received increased attention from both Russian and foreign specialists. At this moment, most of the monuments survived to the present day have a dilapidated, deplorable condition. Monuments experienced the hardships of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the period from 1966 to 1976. Two outstanding monuments of the early XXth century architecture, witnesses of the era was constructed in memory of the tragic events of the Russian–Japanese war – Church of Christ the Savior, designed by the famous Russian architect Julius Zhdanov and the Worship Cross on the Putilovskaya hill, designed by the famous Russian artist Vasily Polenov, near Mukden (modern Shenyang city), became as the objects of this research. The research method is the historical analysis, work with archival documents, in particular the archive of white Russian emigration to Manchuria, full-scale measurement of architectural monuments. The research result has showed that both monuments need restoration work with the direct involvement of Russian specialists. The Russian side, including the Russian Club in Harbin, is ready to assist this restoration work.