This collection presents research articles and memoirs that recreate the creative image of the composer, teacher, musical and social figure Evgeny Nikolaevich Kravtsov (1941-2013) - the successor to the construction of the Siberian musical culture, begun by its coryphesians: A. [ P. The New York Times, G.. N. Ivanov, A. F. Murov . Creativity E. N. Kravtsova belongs to the best pages of modern Russian music, created in Siberia in the last third of the XX - early XXI century. Together with the representatives of the middle generation of Y. Yukechev, Y. Aschepkov, Yu. Shibanov he passes the baton of academic genres to new generations of composers, working now in a vast region east of the Ural ridge. The collection was created in 2016, “at the crossroads of three dates”, a trivium: 60 years of the Novosibirsk State Conservatory . M. and . Glinka, 75th anniversary of the Siberian organization of the Union of Composers of Russia, 75th anniversary of the birth of the composer E. N. Kravtsova . The book will be of interest to specialists involved in the development of musical culture in Siberia, Altai Krai, for musicians-performers and music lovers.