The Palace of culture named after Gorky is a famous theatre and concert venue. All the leading theaters of Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities in the country, starting with the theater of Vsevolod Meyerhold (1927), showed their best performances on stage in Palace of culture. In the early years of the Palace here Vladimir Mayakovsky had repeatedly performed.The stage of the Palace remembers Zinaida Reich and Alice Koonen, Erast Garin and Igor Ilyinsky, Klavdia Shulzhenko and Leonid Utesov. The plaque on the wall of the Palace of culture reports that for many years here delighted the audience with incomparable Arkady Raikin. On the glorious stage of the Palace of culture named after Gorky made publicly favorite actors: Andrei Mironov, Anatoly Papanov, Oleg Basilashvili, Gennady Hazanov, Valery Zolotukhin, Yevgeny Leonov, Oleg Yankovsky, Alexander Abdulov, Nikolai Karachentsev, Alisa Freundlich, Inna Churikova, Irina Kupchenko,Vasily Lanovoy, Joseph Kobzon, Edita, Sergey Zakharov, and others. These walls are remembered the performances: Duke Ellington and orchestra, Rafael, Dean reed, Salvatore, B. B. King, Joe Bonamassa.
Its large theatre hall, which seats about two thousand spectators, the Palace is rightly proud of. This is in many ways a unique structure to the 80-th anniversary of the Palace of culture has been carefully restored and equipped with modern facilities. In addition, the Palace has a small theatre hall with 300 seats, a concert hall with 120 seats.
Not only famous masters, but also a talented Amateur entertainers perform on the stage of the Palace of culture. Amateur Palace of culture is characterized by a mass, the brilliant teaching staff, a high artistic level. It is in the Palace of culture named after Gorky in 1935 appeared the first Amateur Studio of classical ballet, which still exists today. In the children's dance team for the first time in the USSR were staged ballets for children "The Stork", "The Cherished Apple tree" and others. Here began her professional journey as an choreographer Yuri Grigorovich and the composer Andrei Petrov. Currently in Palace of culture has 78 sports and creative units, which involved about three thousand Petersburgers.
In conjunction with the Administration of the Kirov district of St. Petersburg and the Palace of culture is conducting a massive urban celebrations holidays and significant dates. All activities are distinguished by the originality, high level of training.
Hard work on the preservation and enhancement of our cultural wealth is successfully conducted in Palace of culture of A. M. Gorky under the direction of the Director – the honored worker of culture of the Russian Federation, candidate of pedagogical Sciences A. R. Setbegin. The Palace is staffed by qualified, loving their profession specialists, nine staff members have the title "Honored worker of culture". They retain the rich traditions of the ordenonosnogo cultural and recreational facilities and have their finger on the pulse of time trying to meet the changing needs of citizens and guests of the city.
House culyure the Moscow – Narva district in Leningrad (later the Palace of culture named after A. M. Gorky) was opened on the 8-th of November, 1927 the anniversary of the October revolution. This is the first in the city and the country House of culture for which the funds of the trade unions was built a special building with a theater and concert venue and a cinema. The Palace was constructed by architects A. I. Gegello, A. I. Dmitriyev with participation of the architect D. L. Krichevsky, engineer V. F. Rilana. In 1937 the Palace received the Grand Prix at the world exhibition in Paris, and in 1968 officially declared a monument of architecture of an epoch of constructivism.
The name of A. M. Gorky was awarded the Moscow – Narva House of culture on July 8, 1929. At the solemn meeting dedicated to this event, the proletarian writer himself was present. During the Great Patriotic war and blockade of Leningrad house of culture. Gorky was not closed for a single day. There were concerts, performances, film screenings, library served the readers. On the stage of Palace of culture in between bombings were made by outstanding artists, among them is the greatest performer of the Shakespearian repertoire Vahram Papazyan. In the most severe winter of the siege on January 2, 1942, the workers of Palace of culture at the cost of enormous efforts spent for kids holiday Christmas tree.
The merits of the Palace of culture are marked by numerous awards. Those are the diplomas of the country's leadership, ministries of culture, trade unions, diplomas ENEA, gratitude enterprises and public organizations. In 1978 the Palace was awarded the Order of red banner of Labor.
The working hours of box office the Palace from 12:00 to 19:30
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