Soviet theatre directors

Vitaly Mefodievich Solomin (Russian: Виталий Мефодьевич Соломин; 12 December 1941 – 27 May 2002) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter.

Lev Abramovich Dodin (Russian: Лев Абрамович Додин, born 1944) is a modern Russian theater director, the leader of Saint Petersburg Maly Drama Theater.

Konstantine "Kote" Marjanishvili (Georgian: კონსტანტინე [კოტე] მარჯანიშვილი), also known by the Russified name Konstantin Aleksandrovich Mardzhanov (Russian: Константи́н Алекса́ндрович Марджанов) (May 28, 1872 – April 17, 1933), was a Georgian theater director regarded as an important contributor to the pre- and post-revolutionary evolution of Georgian, Russian and Soviet stages.

Sandro Akhmeteli (Georgian: სანდრო ახმეტელი; real name: Aleksandre Akhmetelashvili, ალექსანდრე ახმეტელაშვილი) (April 13, 1886 – June 27, 1937) was a Georgian theater director whose innovative conceptions and skill at mass scenes profoundly influenced the evolution of Soviet and post-Soviet Georgian theater tradition.

Lev Shulimovich Shekhtman (Russian: Лев Шулимович Ше́хтман; born March 10, 1951) is a Russian-American theatre director and actor.

Alexander Akimovich Sanin (Russian: Александр Акимович Санин, né Shoenberg, Шёнберг; 15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1869 — 8 May 1956) was a Russian actor, director and acting teacher.

Nikolai Evgenievich Sorokin (Russian: Николай Евгеньевич Сорокин; February 15, 1952 — March 26, 2013) was a Russian theatre and film actor, theatre director, educator, and People's Artist of Russia (1999).

Vyacheslav Semyonovich Spesivtsev (Russian: Вячеслав Семёнович Спесивцев; born 6 February 1943, in Moscow) is a Russian and Soviet actor and director.

Viktor Ivanovich Khokhryakov (Russian: Виктор Иванович Хохряков; 1913–1986) was a Soviet Russian film actor, theater actor and director.

Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski (né Alexeiev; Russian: Константи́н Серге́евич Станисла́вский; 17 January [O.S. 5 January] 1863 – 7 August 1938) was a seminal Russian theatre practitioner.

Matvey Dubrovin (Matvey Grigor'evich Dubrovin) (Russian: Матве́й Григо́рьевич Дубро́вин; IPA: [matveˈj grigoˈrjevich dubroˈvin] ; born September 27, 1936) July 12, 1911 was born in Saratov, Russian Empire – died October 22, 1974 in Leningrad, USSR).

Alexander Vladimirovich Galibin (Russian: Александр Владимирович Галибин, born 27 September 1955 in Leningrad).

Eduards Smiļģis (23 November 1886 – 19 April 1966) was a Latvian actor and theatre director.

Yury Mefodievich Solomin (Russian: Ю́рий Мефо́диевич Соло́мин; born 18 June 1935 in Chita) is a Soviet/Russian actor and director who has been art director of the Maly Theatre in Moscow since 1988.

Sergei Nikolayevich Artsibashev (Russian: Серге́й Никола́евич Арциба́шев), less Artsybashev (Russian: Арцыба́шев); September 14, 1951, the village of Kalja, North Urals District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, USSR - July 12, 2015, Moscow, Russia) was a theater director, actor, People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2005), chevalier Order of Honour (2009).

Igor Vladimirov (January 1, 1919, Ekaterinoslav – March 20, 1999, St. Petersburg) - Soviet film and theater actor, theater and film director, and teacher.

Galina Borisovna Volchek (Russian: Гали́на Бори́совна Во́лчек; born December 19, 1933) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film director, actress and teacher.

Andrey Alexandrovich Goncharov (Russian: Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Гончаро́в, January 2, 1918, Ryazan Governorate, Soviet Russia, - September 7, 2001, Moscow, Russian Federation) was a Soviet theatre director, drama pedagogue and author.

Yevgeny Arye (also "Yevgeni", Russian: Евгений Арье, Hebrew: יבגני אריה, born 1947 in Moscow) is an Israeli theater director, playwright, scriptwriter, and set designer.

Maria Osipovna Knebel (31 May [O.S. 19 May] 1898 – 1 June 1985) was a Russian theatre practitioner.

Margarita Terekhova (Russian: Маргари́та Бори́совна Те́рехова, b. August 25, 1942, Turinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress.