Circus on Fontanka

The circus on Fontanka is located in St. Petersburg, on the Embankment of the Fontanka River. It has been operating since December 1877. The idea to build a circus in St. Petersburg belonged to the Italian trainer Gaetano Ciniselli. Therefore, before the revolution of 1917, the institution was called the Ciniselli Circus. Circus on Fontanka was built according to the project of Vasily Alexandrovich Kenel. Its building is distinguished by the fact that the dome is built without an internal support.

In the circus performed artists from all over the world. These are famous clowns - Mikhail Shuidin, Yuri Nikulin, Leonid Engibarov Oleg Popov, Gennady Makovsky, Evgeny Maykhrovsky, Heinrich Rotman, Yuri Kuklachev, Anatoly Marchevsky. And also well-known trainers - Margarita Nazarova, Irina Bugrimova, Boris Biryukov, Lyudmila and Vladimir Shevchenko, Nikolai Pavlenko, Lyudmila and Vladimir Deryabkin. There was also an ensemble of Dzhigits, led by Tamerlan Nugzarov, as well as illusionists Lyubov and Anatoly Sudarchikov.

The circus on Fontanka turned 130 years old in January 2013. The Circus has platforms for a water pool, an ice arena. There are 2,345 seats in the room. Today, the best artists of Russia perform in the circus.