Beginning with this small extract from the poem by A.Nemtushkina we'd like to tell about the work of an amateur Evenk composer Oleg Vesilyevych Chapogir. In 1968 the first admission of students to the north department of the Norilsk musical school was carried out. This educational institution admitted children who belonged to natives of Evekya and Tajmyr: Evenks, Yakuts, Dolgans and Ketos. In 1974 the first students graduated from the north department. One of them was Oleg Chapogir who studied at the class of bayan. On returning to Evenkya he began to teach music at the folk department of Turinsk Musical school. This activity was followed by the army. After the demobilization he worked at the Ilimpyisk regional culture department, at an artistic workshop, at the district scientific-methodological center.

When being a student he gravitated for composing poems and songs with self-accompaniment on the guitar. This hobby at last became the sense of all his life, he couldn't conceive himself without creative work. The first co-authors were poets A.Nemtushkin, N.Ojogir, V.Gluhovchenko whose poetry the composer set to music and created such songs as "The North - My Motherland", "My region - Evenkya", "Rein-Deer", "A Thin Birch", "Ecole", "Orornun bi indem" and many others. For many years Oleg Chapogir conducted the number of vocal-instrumental ensembles. This was in Norilsk, in the army and here in Tura. Ensembles he worked at became his creative laboratory where songs in various genres were sampled and got there music life. These were songs about the native region, Evenkya, toilers of taiga and just modern youth songs to words of Russian poets.

In 1990 at the Krasnoyarsk book publishing house Oleg Chapogir edited and published a collection of songs comprised of pieces of music by Evenk Composers. This collection included 12 songs of Oleg Chapogir. Later in 90-s an authoring collection of songs under the title "To My Soil - to Evenkya" was compiled. Still about 30 songs it consisted of remain manuscript because of the absence of financial resources to publish them. In 1999 Oleg Chapogir recorded a magnetic album, which included 26 songs glorifying the love to his native region and to inhabitants of the stern soil. These cassettes were recorded at the studio of The Evenk Regional Center of Amateur and Folk Arts.