Ukraine · Donetsk
The Donetsk Theatre of Opera and Ballet was founded in 1932 in the cities of Lugansk and Vinnitsa, based on the Lugansk Theatre of Opera and Ballet and Vinnitsa's Itinerant Opera of Right-Bank Ukraine.
The Theatre's first season was opened on 1 September 1932 with Aleksandr Borodin's opera "Prince Igor".
In 1936, as part of a major redesign, ...
Ukraine · Donetsk
The biography of Donetsk State Music and Drama Theatre (the Theatre, for short) started in 1927 when it was created as a Ukrainian worker's theatre, in Chernozavodsky District of the city of Kharkov (then the capital of Ukraine); the Theatre had a mission to bring culture and education to eastern Ukraine. The core of the Theatre's company was made ...
Ukraine · Donetsk
On 6 September 1939, in the city of Donetsk (then Stalino) the Shevchenko Cinema was opened; it was one of the USSR's best cinemas and Ukraine's first two-auditorium cinema.
Its building was constructed to a design by the most talented architect L. Teplitsky.
At present, there are two auditoriums in the cinema: the Malachite Lounge and the Ru...