Salavat State Bashkir Drama Theater, State theater in Salavat, Russia.
The Salavat State Bashkir Drama Theater is a state-funded playhouse located in the city of Salavat, in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. It has a main stage and additional performance spaces where drama productions are shown throughout the year.
The theater was founded in 1933, at a time when the Soviet state was building new public institutions across Bashkortostan. It grew into one of the oldest professional drama companies in the republic.
The theater puts on plays in both Bashkir and Russian, so audiences can follow performances in their own language. Stage designs and costumes often draw on Bashkir folk motifs, which visitors can clearly notice during a show.
The theater sits in the center of Salavat and is easy to reach on foot from nearby streets. Checking the current program ahead of time is helpful, as performance days can vary depending on the production.
The company began in 1933 as a kolkhoz and sovkhoz theatre in the village of Tolbazy, founded by Elizaveta Shlyakhtina-Syrtlanova, one of the first professional Bashkir actresses. Its first troupe was made up of two acting families, the Akhmetovs and Gaziza Nasirova with Biktash Kalimullin. After the move to Salavat in 1956 the actors had to switch from Tatar to Bashkir stage speech.
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