Voronezh Academic Drama Theatre named after Alexei Koltsov

The history of the theater begins in 1802. Then, in the premises of the former house of V. A. Chertkov, a professional Voronezh public theater was opened. The audience was presented with the opera “Miller – a sorcerer, a deceiver and a matchmaker”. In 1821, a new theater building was built. The theatre building was rebuilt again in 1886. With the advent of Soviet power, the theater became known as the Voronezh Grand Soviet Theater. In 1937, the theater became the Voronezh State Drama Theatre. During the Great Patriotic War, the theater, being in evacuation, worked in Sterlitamak and Kopeysk.

In 1959, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the Voronezh State Drama Theatre was named after Alexei Vasilyevich Koltsov. A year before that, the main director of the theater Firs Efimovich Shishigin staged the play “Alexei Koltsov” based on the novel by V. A. Korablinov.

In connection with the 75th anniversary of the formation of the Voronezh region in 2009, by the Decree of the Governor Alexei Gordeev, he was awarded the badge of distinction “For services to the Voronezh region”.

Voronezh Drama Theatre actively tours both in Russia and abroad. In recent years, the theater has visited Munich, Yerevan, Trabzon. Trips to the International Theatre Festival, the countries of the Black Sea basin, in the Turkish Trabzon became almost an annual event.