People's House in Chelyabinsk, Theatre in Revolution Square, Chelyabinsk, Russia

The People's House in Chelyabinsk is a theatre building on Ploshchad Revolyutsii, constructed in 1903 to a design by Perm architect Rudolf Karvovsky. Its facades are finished in cut Ural granite, with wrought-iron lanterns, stair railings and parapets. The building originally housed the city's largest theatre and concert hall, a library-reading room, a tea house, a museum of visual aids and the first kindergarten in the city.

Built in 1903 to a design by Perm architect Rudolf Karvovsky, the People's House was funded by the Orenburg provincial committee (10,000 rubles) and donations (25,000 rubles) as a temperance society leisure centre. It opened in November 1903 with the city's largest theatre hall, a library from 1907, a tea room, a museum and the first kindergarten. From May 1917 the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies met here; since 1982 it has housed the Theatre for Young Spectators, now the Molodyozhny Theatre.

The building has housed the Chelyabinsk Youth Theatre since 1982, renamed the Chelyabinsk State Drama "Molodyozhny Theatre" in 2011. Its name comes from the pre-revolutionary people's house movement, funded by the temperance committee. The stage once hosted V. N. Pashennaya, the Adelgeim brothers and V. F. Komissarzhevskaya.

The building stands on the north side of Ploshchad Revolyutsii, the former Yuzhnaya Ploshchad, in central Chelyabinsk. The main entrance staircase, dismantled in 1944 and rebuilt in 1986–1988, leads up from street level; the basement holds the cloakrooms, buffet and toilets. The hall seats 650, so latecomers may wait for a pause in the performance.

The entrance staircase was dismantled in 1944 to open a ground-floor level with cloakrooms, a buffet and smoking rooms; its original form was restored only in 1986–1988. The facades are finished in Ural cut granite with forged metal lamps, stair railings and parapets.