The Argentine tango is regarded as an entire cultural phenomenon that was originally considered just music aimed at the accompaniment to dances. There is described the creative work by Astor Piazzolla - an Argentine composer who gave a strong incentive to the development of the Tango Nuevo.

There are researched the origins and spreading in Russia in the first half of the XX century of the interest to the tango genre, the reasons for cultural receptivity of the Russian culture and mentality to the borrowed dance. There are revealed the peculiarities of interpretation and creative remakes of foreign authors’ works by Russian composers. Tango is considered as the phenomenon of the music and dance culture closely connected with other cultural and socio-political realities in Russia of the early XX century.