Zinovy Korogodsky

Zinovy Yakovlevich Korogodsky (Russian: Зиновий Яковлевич Корогодский; July 29, 1926, Tomsk, USSR - May 22, 2004, St. Petersburg, Russia) is a Russian theater director, Professor, People's Artist of the RSFSR,[1] winner of the Stanislavsky Award, an honorary professor of the Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University.

In 1950 he graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts.[1] He worked in the theaters of Leningrad, Kaluga, Kaliningrad. In 1962-1986 he was the leader of the Leningrad Young People’s Theatre.[2]

In 1986 he was convicted on false charges of sodomy, but the sentence was canceled and the case closed for lack of evidence.[3][4] He was head of the laboratory young playwrights Russia.

In 2001, he was appointed a professor at Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University where he taught until his death in 2004. He received an honorary professor of the University (posthumously).

He was buried in Komarovo, Saint Petersburg.

References

  1. 1 2 Зиновий Корогодский
  2. ↑ "Bryantsev Youth Theatre (Saint Petersburg)".
  3. ↑ Зиновий Корогодский (1926—2004). Золотое зерно театра ISBN 5-91108-006-0
  4. ↑ Дело Корогодского (Ленинградский ТЮЗ). Пятый канал

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