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Photo: Vitebsk Theatre of Drama them. Yakub Kolas

Vitebsk Drama Theater named after Yakub Kolas- the best of the theaters in Belarus, which can boast not only an excellent repertoire and magnificent cast, but also with an interesting architectural layout and advantageous location. Built on the territory of the Upper Castle (where, in fact, the city itself began to be built), it is part of historical center city, offering a beautiful view of and many sights of Vitebsk.

Contemporary theater named after Yakub Kolas, a monument of the post-war period, was built in 1958 by architects Maksimov and Ryskina. The main façade of the building, overlooking the , is designed as an eight-column Doric portico, ending in a triangular pediment with a decorative relief. The architects decorated the side facades with rustication, pilasters, and stucco inserts. The end facade of the theater is made in the form of a four-columned Doric portico. In the very center of the building there is a three-tiered auditorium with a parterre and two balconies, service rooms are located on the sides.

It is curious that the first project of the theater provided for a basement floor for office space and dressing rooms. However, given the location of the theater (and it stands on the shore), they decided not to build the basement floor, since it would certainly have been washed away by river flows.

According to the old-timers of the theater, the building of the servants of Melpomene, before its reconstruction in 1985, was kept practically on the word of honor, since the city authorities saved on building materials.

Date of birth of Vitebsk Drama Theater named after Yakub Kolas- November 21, 1926. It was at that troubled time for Russia and Belarus that a decision was made to create the Belarusian Drama Theater on the basis of the Belarusian drama studio at the Moscow Art Theater. Among the first graduates of the studio at the Moscow Art Theater are such prominent figures, as People's Artists of the USSR Ilyinsky, Molchanov, Stanyuta, who made a huge contribution to culture of Vitebsk.

Few people know that in the 20-30s of the last century, serious political passions flared up in the theater. The head of the studio, Smyshlyaev, created the order of the Templars in the building on Zamkovaya Street, who preached the ideas spiritual development. One of the initiates of this medieval order, whose adherents burned at the stake of the Inquisition, but managed to leave their teachings to posterity, was Sergei Eisenstein himself, the director of The Battleship Potemkin. According to legend, it was in our theater that he was initiated into the order. In the 1990s, most of the Templars perished in the basements of the NKVD, and the newspapers ran a campaign against the "cornflower blue mysticism" (as the order was dubbed by Soviet ideologists).

For the development of national culture in 1944, the theater was given the name Yakub Kolas, and the play "Nesterka", which did not leave the stage during the war years, is awarded State Prize THE USSR. Troupe theater repeatedly showed excellent results on international stages and theater festivals Europe, representing culture of Vitebsk. So, in 2000 and 2001, productions of "Chagall ... Chagall" and "Madame Bonchance" became winners of the Edinburgh Festival.
In 1977 the team theater named after Yakub Kolas awarded the title of academician. In 2001 he receives proud title national theatre.

November 2011 Yakub Kolas Theater celebrated its anniversary by organizing the exhibition "We Remember Everything", dedicated to its history.

The theater hall is designed for 520 people. You can find out about the premieres of the theater by calling the theater +375 212 36 08 60 or on any Vitebsk site, such as popular city ​​portal.

Finding a theater is easy even for a tourist who comes to visit for the first time - walking from the picturesque, enjoying views of Vitebsk with , also one of monuments built in 1866.

On the other side of the bridge is located with domes proudly looking into the blue Vitebsk sky. - the first stone church of the city, erected under Princess Olga in the 11th century, one of the most interesting tourist attractions in Vitebsk. included in cultural and historical center " Golden ring of the city of Vitebsk Dvina", where is located with exhibition hall and creative workshops.

About other, no less interesting sights of Vitebsk can be found at city ​​portal, which gives detailed information About, what to see in Vitebsk guests of the city.

(BGT-2) staging the performance of I. Ben "In the old days." The opening was attended by Yakub Kolas and Janis Rainis. The theater troupe was formed on the basis of the graduation course of the Belarusian Drama Studio at the Moscow Art Theater in Moscow.
The theater was located in the building of the former Rostov Theater on Lenin Square.

In 1930-1932, the director of the theater was Vital Volsky (Volsky-Seidel Vitaly Friedrichovich), author of the play Nesterka (1940).

In May 1941 the theater was on tour in Vyborg and Petrozavodsk in the Karelo-Finnish SSR. With the outbreak of war, they returned to Vitebsk, and from there they were evacuated to the city of Uralsk in western Kazakhstan.
In the fall of 1943, the BGT-2 moved to Orekhovo-Zuevo near Moscow. In October 1944 the theater returned to Vitebsk. In 1941-1946, the artistic director of the theater was National artist BSSR A. K. Ilyinsky.

From 12/21/1944 Belarusian State Drama Theater named after Yakub Kolas Department of Arts under the Council of People's Commissars of the BSSR.

Since 1965, he worked as a production designer, and later (until 1995) - the main artist of the theater A. A. Solovyov.

From 10/13/1976 Belarusian State Order of the Red Banner of Labor Drama Theater named after Yakub Kolas Ministry of Culture of the BSSR.
From 7.12.1977 - Belarusian State Order of the Red Banner of Labor academic theater named after Yakub Kolas Ministry of Culture of the BSSR.

In 1985, the theater created puppet group(first performance April 20, 1986), in 1990, separated into an independent team - Belarusian theater "Lyalka".

From 27.08.2001 State Institution "National Academic Drama Theater named after Yakub Kolas" Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus.

The director of the theater is Grigory Shatko, Honored Artist of Belarus.
The artistic director is Vitaly Barkovsky, a hardened figure of arts of Belarus.

theater building

The modern building of the theater was built in 1958 according to the project of architects A. Maksimov, I. Ryskina. The main façade of the building facing Millennium Square in Vitebsk solved in the form of an 8-column Doric portico, completed with a triangular pediment with a decorative relief. The side facades are decorated with pilasters, stucco inserts and rustication. End facade in the form of a 4-column portico.
On the main axis of the building there is a vestibule, a foyer, an auditorium with a parterre and two balconies.

Its construction, begun in 1956, coincided with changes in Soviet architecture. The project has been revised. This mainly affected the design of volumetric solutions and interiors. As a result of “clearing away excesses”, the building, which occupies a responsible place in the ensemble of the city center, turned out to be inexpressive. This is especially true of the side facade from the side of the embankment on the high bank of the Dvina.

theater studios

In the 1920s - 1960s. at the theater there were studios for the training of young actors.

• Studio 1928-1931
  Artistic director N. Mitskevich. Acting skills, stage movement and plasticity, make-up, stage speech, and social disciplines were taught. The graduates of the studio were enrolled in the staff of the theatre. Among them: A. Coward, A. Sheleg, I. Matusevich, L. Budko and others. Diploma works- the performance "Avant-garde" by V. Kataev and parts of the staging "Property" based on Karavaeva's story "The Yard".
• Studio 1931-1933
  Artistic director N. Mitskevich. Acting skills were taught (teachers N. Mitskevich, Sannikov, Rozanov, T. N. Sergeychik) and stage speech (Stelmakh).
• Studio 1934-1938
  Artistic director T. Sergeychik. Teachers: Ilyinsky, P. Molchanov, L. Chernov. General education disciplines were taught by employees and music school, directors Rozanov, Zubov, Litke, composers, artists and other creative workers gave lectures. 11 people were enrolled in the studio. Among the studio works: participation in the performances "Fighters" by Romashov, "Death of the Squadron" by Korneichuk, excerpts from the plays "Pinsk nobility" by Dunin-Martsinkevich, "War to War" by M. Gorky and others. Vanyushin" Naidenov. The graduates of the studio were enrolled in the staff of the theater, and also sent to collective farm and state farm theaters.
• Studio 1939-1941
  Artistic director V. Aksyonov. Teachers Ilyinsky, Sergeychik. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the studio stopped working. Some of the students stayed to work in the theater.
• Studio 1945-1948
  Artistic director T. Sergeychik. Teachers Gorelov, I. Ilyinsky, E. P. Rodzyalovskaya, L. Mozolevskaya, F. Shmakov. Studio work - the play "Old Friends" by Malyugin. Among the graduates G. A. Orlova and her husband Nikolay Eremenko.

• Studio 1956-1958
  Artistic director T. Sergeychik. Teachers N. Loitor, V. Shmakov, Skibnevsky, Ya. Burakov. Studio works - excerpts from the works of A. S. Pushkin, A. P. Chekhov, J. Rainis, K. Krapiva.

• Studio 1962-1964
  Artistic director B. Bragantsev, I. Popov (since 1963). Teachers: Sergeychik, Shmakov, Burakov, Rodzyalovskaya. Among the graduates are M. Morozov, L. Pisarva, Zabolotnikov and others. Diploma works: excerpts from Ostrovsky's "Dowry", Gogol's "Inspector General", K. Simonov's "A Boy from Our City", Stein's "Ocean".

Gallery

A group of actors of the Belarusian State Drama Theater. Ya. Kolas, among them - Fyodor Shmakov (1st from the left) and Alexander Ilyinsky (3rd from the left), Zinaida Konopelko (3rd from the right). 1950, Vitebsk



Artists of the Belarusian State Drama Theater named after Ya. Kolas: E.P. Rodzyalovskaya, T.N. Sergeychik, Ya.K. Glebovskaya, A.K. Ilyinsky, M.S. Belinskaya, E.I. Lagovskaya, Z.S. Veliky and L.A. Gepner. January 5, 1952, Vitebsk



The chairman of the collective farm named after Gastello, Minsk region, M. Volodko welcomes Alexander Ilyinsky after watching the play "Alazani Valley" by K. Gubarevich at the Y. Kolas Theater. February 2, 1953, Vitebsk

A scene from the play "Alazani Valley" by K. Gubarevich at the Belarusian State Drama Theater. Ya. Kolas; cast: grandfather Nuprey - A. Ilyinsky, Tuliashvili - A. Trus. February 25, 1953, Vitebsk

Alexander Ilyinsky as Nesterka in play of the same name Vitaly Volsky. February 5, 1953, Vitebsk



Theater construction. 1962



Late 1950s - 1970s.



Early 1970s.



Early 1980s.