N.P. Akimov State Academic Comedy Theater

The comedy theater in St. Petersburg is located in the city center, on one of the busiest highways - Nevsky Prospekt. It is the center of cultural life of St. Petersburg. The viewer, once found here, will want to return to the theater again.

The building of the theater is a historical place. Even before the revolution, there was the house of the merchant Eliseev, where a comedy theater – “Nevsky farce” was located above the deli.

Since 1929, the room housed the theater of satire directed by Gutman.

After 2 years, comedy and satire united in the Leningrad Theatre of Satire and Comedy, where the first Soviet comedies were born. Since 1935, the theater was headed by the great artist and director Nikolai Pavlovich Akimov. There were such famous productions as “Dog in the hay”, “School of slander” and many others.

The staff of the St. Petersburg Comedy Theatre has long been recognized as one of the best in Russia.

The comedy theater after the death of Akimov was headed by many directors, including V.S. Golikov, P.N. Fomenko and D.H. Astrakhan.

Since 1995, the Comedy Theatre has been led by Honored Artist Tatiana Kazakova. She filled the productions with sophistication, extraordinary expressiveness and expressiveness.