Ektonika and Babushkina Dacha Music Festival in Sharkan
At the Tol-Babaya estate in the Udmurt village of Sharkan, the summer music festival Ektonika and Babushkina Dacha has run since 2015, drawing hundreds of performers from Udmurtia, Perm Krai, Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, and Kirov region. Over two mid-June days, the program mixes concerts, national games, food tastings, and craft workshops, introducing visitors to musical traditions from across the wider Volga-Urals region.
Sharkan is a small village in Udmurtia, the kind of place that would rarely appear on a festival map if not for the Tol-Babaya estate, which has hosted a genuinely large summer music gathering here since 2015.