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CHABUKIANI Vakhtang Mikhailovich (1910-1992), ballet dancer, choreographer, pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1950). Upon graduating from the Leningrad School of Choreography, where he had studied under V.I ... | | CHABUKIANI Vakhtang Mikhailovich (1910-1992), ballet dancer, choreographer, pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1950). Upon graduating from the Leningrad School of Choreography, where he had studied under V.I. Ponomarev, Chabukiani danced at the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre in 1929-41. He performed title roles in the ballets La Bayadere by M.I. Petipa, Don Quixote by А.А. Gorsky, The Flame of Paris by V.I. Vaynonen, and Taras Bulba by F.V. Lopukhov. The passion and agility of Chabukiani's dancing was combined with a gift for profound sincerity in his acting. Chabukiani choreographed several ballets, including The Heart of the Mountains by A.M. Balanchivadze (1938), Laurencia by A.A. Krein (1939), and Othello by A.D. Machavariani (1960). Even during the period of dramatic theatre's strong influence on ballet, Chabukiani's productions were distinguished by distinct elements of dance. Many celebrated artists starred in Chabukiani's ballets, among them T.M. Vecheslova, E.G. Chikvaidze, N.M. Dudinskaya, A.Y. Shelest, A E. Osipenko, B.Y. Bregvadze, S.G. Koren, B.V. Shavrov, and others. He was awarded the Stalin Prize several times (1941, 1948, and 1951) and the Lenin Prize (1958), and lived at 21a Dobrolyubova Avenue. References: Красовская В. М. Вахтанг Чабукиани. Л.; М., 1960; Кригер В. В. Вахтанг Чабукиани: Страницы из творч. жизни. М., 1960. G. N. Dobrovolskaya.
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DUDINSKAYA Natalia Mikhailovna (1912-2003, St. Petersburg), ballet dancer, People's Artist of the USSR (1957), Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg (1998). Graduated from the Leningrad Choreography School under of A. Y. Vaganova in 1931 ... | | DUDINSKAYA Natalia Mikhailovna (1912-2003, St. Petersburg), ballet dancer, People's Artist of the USSR (1957), Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg (1998). Graduated from the Leningrad Choreography School under of A. Y. Vaganova in 1931. That same year, she joined the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (today Mariinsky Theatre) as a soloist, dancing leading roles from the classical repertoire (Odette-Odile, Aurora, Giselle), then became an authority on the contemporary ballet repertoire, including The Flame of Paris (1932), Lost Illusions (1936), and Militsa (1947) by B. V. Asafyev. She took on virtuosic roles with heroic content, Laurencia in one of A. A. Krein's ballets (1939), Gayane (A. I. Khachaturyan's Gayane, 1942), Cinderella (in S. S. Prokofiev's Cinderella, 1946; Stalin Prize, 1947), Raimonda (in A. K. Glazunov's Raimonda; Stalin Prize, 1949), Girl-Bird (in F. Z. Yarullin's Surale, 1950; Stalin Prize, 1951), Pannochka (in V. P. Solovyev-Sedoy's Taras Bulba , 1955), and Sari (in K. Karaev's Path of Thunder, 1958). Dudinskaya worked with celebrated choreographers K. М. Sergeev, L. V. Yakobson, and B. А. Fenster, and was Sergeev's long-time dance partner. Dudinskaya managed to imbue her dancing with psychological intensity, emotional expressiveness, and exactitude. In 1951-78, she taught improvement classes, and tutored at the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. From 1964, she was the head dance instructor, and from 1995 Professor at the Leningrad Academic School of Choreography (see Academy of Russian Ballet), training 14 graduating classes. М. Kullik and U. V. Lopatkina were both Dudinskaya's students. Alongside with Sergeev, she choreographed a number of ballets for the School of Choreography: Seasons to A. K. Gazunov's music (1976), Beethoven's Appassionata (1978), R. Schuman's Carnival (1988), and others. She had also assisted Sergeev in reconstructing such classical ballets as Raimonda (1948), Swan Lake (1950), Sleeping Beauty (1952, 1989), as well as in choreographing Corsair for the Bolshoy Theatre in Moscow (1992). In 1989, a small planet was named after Dudinskaya. She was a laureate of the Golden Soffit Prize (1995) and the Golden Mask Theatre Prize (For Honour and Dignity, 2002). She lived at 11/2 Nevsky Prospect (memorial plaque installed), and was buried at Literatorskie Mostky. References: Кремшевская Г. Д. Наталия Дудинская. Л.; М., 1964; Головашенко Ю. Наталья Дудинская // Театр. 1968. №. 9. С. 60-68. Y. N. Kruzhnov.
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KIROV (born Kostrikov) Sergey Mironovich (1886-1934, Leningrad), statesman and party worker. He graduated from Kazan Elementary Mechanical-technical School (1904) ... | | KIROV (born Kostrikov) Sergey Mironovich (1886-1934, Leningrad), statesman and party worker. He graduated from Kazan Elementary Mechanical-technical School (1904). Since 1904 a member of Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party, in 1907-08 served a prison sentence. Since 1909 Kirov had been working in Vladikavkaz for Terek newspaper. In 1917 he supported the policy of the Provisional government. The delegate of the 2nd All-Russian Soviet congress in Petrograd (October of 1917); he changed sides for Bolsheviks. Kirov took part in the establishment of the Soviet system in the Northern Caucasus, Astrakhan, Azerbaijan (1918-20). In 1921-26 the 1st secretary of the Central Committee of Azerbaijan Communist Party (bolshevist). Since 1923, a member of the Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party (bolshevist), since 1926, candidate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party (bolshevist), since 1930, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party (bolshevist). In January of 1926 Kirov arrived at Leningrad together with a group of the delegates of the 14th Congress of All-Union Communist Party (bolshevist) to dispute against G.E. Zinovyev's adherents (see also New opposition), in the same year he was elected the 1st secretary of Leningrad provincial party committee (the regional party committee since 1927) of All-Union Communist Party (bolshevist). In the meantime, since 1931 he was the 1st secretary of Leningrad city party committee of All-Union Communist Party (bolshevist), in 1934, a secretary of the Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party (bolshevist). He was directly in charge of so-called purges of Leningrad party organization from Zinovyev's supporters, as well as of campaigns of clearing Leningrad from "alien elements" (noblemen, clergymen etc. ), and of repressions against them; he was also involved in the fabrication of Academics' Case. In 1926-34 he lived at 26-28 Kamennoostrovsky Avenue (memorial plaque; since 1957 a museum has been established in his apartment). On December 1, 1934 he was killed in Smolny by L.V. Nikolaev on personal motives (according to the official version). Kirov was buried on the Red square in Moscow. I.V. Stalin used his murder as an excuse for introducing mass repressions (see Kirov flow). Soviet propaganda for many decades had been implanting the myth of "Mironych" being a caring and humane leader, the friend of common Leningraders. After 1934, the name of Kirov was given to a number of sites in Leningrad, including an avenue (today Kamennoostrovsky), a bridge (today Troitsky), the Central Park of Recreation and Culture. In present-day St. Petersburg we can find Kirovsky District, Kirovskaya Square; the latter featuring a monument to Kirov established in 1938 (sculptor N.V. Tomsky, architect N.A. Trotsky); Kirovskaya Street, Kirovsky Zavod metro station. References: Кирилина А. А. Неизвестный Киров. М., 2001. A. Y. Chistyakov.
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SERGEEV Konstantin Mikhailovich (1910 - 1992, St. Petersburg), dancer, ballet-master, pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1957). In 1930-61, after graduating from the Leningrad choreographic School under V.I ... | | SERGEEV Konstantin Mikhailovich (1910 - 1992, St. Petersburg), dancer, ballet-master, pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1957). In 1930-61, after graduating from the Leningrad choreographic School under V.I. Ponomarev, he became a danseur for the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre. He mostly played lyric and romantic roles. He took over the role of Romeo from Romeo and Juliet after L.M. Lavrovsky, and Eugene from The Bronze Horseman after R.V. Zakharov. His other roles included Siegfried in The Swan Lake by L.I. Ivanov and M.I. Petipa, and Desiree in The Sleeping Beauty, Albert in Giselle, and Jean de Brien in Raymonda by Petipa. He was G.S. Ulanova's partner in 1930-40s, and N.M. Dudinskaya's after the war. In 1946 he became ballet-master, and in 1951-55 and 1960-70 acted as the main ballet-master of the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 1973 he became art director of the Choreographic School, which was renamed the Academy of Russian Ballet in 1991, when Sergeev became its first President. Through his career, he created new choreography for ballets by Pepita and Ivanov, staged Cinderella by S.S. Prokofiev (1946; the Stalin Prize, 1947), By the Path of Thunder by K. Karaev (1958), The Distant Planet by B.S. Maisel (1963), and Hamlet by N.P. Chervinsky (1970). Some of the dancers to take part in his ballets include Dudinskaya, G.T. Komleva, Y.V. Solovyev, V.M. Panov, K.I. Fedicheva, and A.I. Sizova. He was awarded several Stalin Prizes (1946, 1949, 1951). From 1951 until 1992 he lived at 2 Kamennoostrovsky Avenue (memorial plaque installed). He was buried at Literatorskie Mostky. References: Богданов-Березовский В. М. Заслуженный артист РСФСР лауреат Сталинских премий Константин Михайлович Сергеев. Л., 1951; Прохорова В. В. Константин Сергеев. Л., 1974. G. I. Dobrovolskaya.
| | | | hidden Ulanova G.S., (1910-1998), ballet dancer | |
ULANOVA Galina Sergeevna (1910, St. Petersburg - 1998), dancer, pedagogue, Hero of Socialist Labor (1974, 1980), People"s Artist of the USSR (1951). Graduating from the Leningrad Choreographic School under A.Y ... | | ULANOVA Galina Sergeevna (1910, St. Petersburg - 1998), dancer, pedagogue, Hero of Socialist Labor (1974, 1980), People"s Artist of the USSR (1951). Graduating from the Leningrad Choreographic School under A.Y. Vaganova, she was a soloist at the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre from 1928 until 1941. She was the first to play the role of Maria in The Fountain of Bakhchisaray (1934, ballet master R.V. Zakharov) and Juliet (1940, ballet master L.M. Lavrovsky). She also played Odette/Odile, Giselle, and other major roles. Ulanova"s roles were characterised by an extraordinary harmony of dancing, imparting grace to simple movements and naturalness to complex ones. Through her art she made real the tender poetic heroines who lived in love and defended love at the expense of their lives. Tragic finales became light and hopeful when Ulanova played them. A bronze bust modelled after her was installed in Moscow Podeby Park (1984, sculptor M.K. Anikushin). She was awarded the Stalin Prize (1941, 1946, 1947, 1950) and Lenin Prize (1957). She lived at 8 Dzerzhinskogo Street (today Gorokhovaya Street), and 13 Gogolya Street (today Malaya Morskaya Street). References: Голубов В. И. Танец Галины Улановой. Л., 1948; Богданов-Березовский В. М. Галина Сергеевна Уланова. 2-е изд., испр. и доп. М., 1961; Львов-Анохин Б. А. Галина Уланова. 2-е изд., доп. М., 1984. G. N. Dobrovolskaya.
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VAGANOVA Agrippina Yakovlevna (1879, St. Petersburg - 1951, Leningrad), ballet-dancer, pedagogue, choreographer, People's Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1954) ... | | VAGANOVA Agrippina Yakovlevna (1879, St. Petersburg - 1951, Leningrad), ballet-dancer, pedagogue, choreographer, People's Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1954). Upon graduating from the Petersburg Drama School, where she had studied under P.A. Gerdt, she danced at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1897-1916. Gave brilliant variations on many ballet performances, and played the roles of Queen of Water (The Little Humpbacked Horse), and Lady of Dryads (Don Quixote, both by A.A. Gorsky). By the end of her career - having acted the leading parts in M.I. Petipa and L.I. Ivanov's Swan Lake, Gorsky's The Little Humpbacked Horse, Giselle by Petipa - she achieved the title of ballerina. In 1920, Vaganova started teaching at the Russian Ballet School under the guidance of A.L. Volynsky; from 1921, she was a teacher of the Petrograd (Leningrad) Choreographic School (see Academy of Russian Ballet). She integrated her stage experience with her predecessor's lessons and created her own teaching method (expounded on in her book Basic Principles of Classical Ballet, Leningrad; Moscow., 1934; several editions), which put emphasis on newer developments and technique in classical dance. Among her students were M.T. Semenova, G.S. Ulanova, O.G. Iordan, T.M. Vecheslova, N.M. Dudinskaya, F.I. Balabina, A.Y. Shelest, N.A. Petrova, N.A. Kurgapkina, O.N. Moiseeva, I.G. Hensler, A.E. Osipenko, and I.A. Kolpakova. The Choreographic School was named after Vaganova in 1957. In 1931-1937, Vaganova was an art director for the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre's ballet troupe, where she choreographed Petipa and Ivanov's ballet Swan Lake (1933) and J. Perrot's Esmeralda (1935). She was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1946. In 1937-51, Vaganova lived at 4 Dzerzhinskogo Street (today Gorokhovaya Street, memorial plaque installed). Buried at Literatorskie Mostky. References: Богданов-Березовский В. М. А. Я. Ваганова. М.; Л., 1950; Агриппина Яковлевна Ваганова: Статьи. Воспоминания. Материалы. Л.; М., 1958; Красовская В. М. Ваганова. Л., 1989. G. N. Dobrovolskaya.
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The Centre of the Communist Party Education, where 6-month courses of Marxism-Leninism for functionaries of the Communist Party, Young Commuinist League and Trade Union were organized, was opened on S.M ... | | The Centre of the Communist Party Education, where 6-month courses of Marxism-Leninism for functionaries of the Communist Party, Young Commuinist League and Trade Union were organized, was opened on S.M. Kirov's initiative in the Reserve Palace and the Palace of Paley. S.M. Kirov, the First Secretary of the Leningrad Oblast Committee of VKP (b), often visited the Centre.
Persons Kirov (real name Kostrikov) Sergey Mironovich
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1 January. The balloon "Osoaviakhim - 1" was risen at a height of twenty two hundred metres; the Tsarskoye Selo native A.B. Vasenko, a graduate of the Tsarskoye Selo Nicholas Gymnasium, a worker of the Pavlovsk upper-air observatory ... | | 1 January. The balloon "Osoaviakhim - 1" was risen at a height of twenty two hundred metres; the Tsarskoye Selo native A.B. Vasenko, a graduate of the Tsarskoye Selo Nicholas Gymnasium, a worker of the Pavlovsk upper-air observatory, was a member of the crew. The finish of the expedition was tragic, stratonauts have perished and they were burried as heroes in the Kremlin Wall in Moscow. Late July. The English writer Herbert Wells visited A. Tolstoy's house in Detskoye Selo and presented his book "Borba mirov" ("The War of the Worlds") to Tolstoy. 1 December. S.M. Kirov was killed in the Smolny Institute building. On 1 December 1935 the monument to S.M. Kirov was opened near the Reserve Palace (it was destroyed during World War II). The Cathedtral of St. Sophia was closed for believers. It began working again in 1989.
Persons Kirov (real name Kostrikov) Sergey Mironovich Vasenko, Andrey Bogdanovich Wells Herbert George
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