Soviet theater

Theater in the USSR was part of the Soviet project. In the first post-revolutionary years, the theatrical sphere was full of bold and sometimes exotic experiments, and new theaters were opened. In addition to professional theaters - opera and ballet, drama, musical theaters there were also in educational institutes, just amateur ones, in factories and on collective farms. A network of national theaters is being created in all union and autonomous national republics.

The capital's theaters were led by talented directors Vsevolod Meyerhold, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Evgeny Vakhtangov, Nikolay Okhlopkov, Nikolay Khmelev, Ruben Simonov, Vladimir Andreev, Valery Fokin, Georgy Tovstonogov, Anatoly Efros, Mark Zakharov, Anatoly Lyubimov, Galina Volchek, Oleg Efremov, Victor Stanitsyn, Boris Livanov, Leonid Kheifets, Alexey Popov, Andrey Popov, Andrey Goncharov.

On September 16, 1931, the world's largest puppet theater, the State Academic Central Puppet Theater, was opened in Moscow. Its first director was Sergei Obraztsov.

On February 6, the Central Academic Theater of the Soviet Army, which was a departmental theater of the USSR Armed Forces, opened in Moscow. In 1940, a new building was opened for the theater with the largest theater stage in Europe.

In November 1965, the Moscow State Academic Children's Musical Theater was opened. Its founder and director was Natalia Sats.

Even before the revolution, in 1912, an animal theater was founded in Moscow, the “Kroshka” theater, as it was called then. Its founder was a talented trainer and clown Vladimir Durov. After the death of Vladimir Durov in 1934, the theater was headed by his wife, and then by his youngest daughter Anna Durova-Sadovskaya, and after her departure - by Vladimir Durov’s great-granddaughter Natalya Durova. The theater for a long time was called the Corner named after Durov, and since 1982 it was called the Theater of Animals named after V.L. Durov