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Buryat National Academic Opera and Ballet House named after G. Tsyrenzhapov

The Buryat national academic Opera and Ballet house is the only one in the Eastern Siberia and the Far East. The theatre opening was held in 1952. The building was designed as an integrated scientific and cultural complex to house a theatre, a library, a concert hall and a museum. In 1936 Fyodorov’s design was approved and the construction started in 1938 г. But it was stopped due to the World War II and resumed in 1945 with some alterations.

The combination of classical architecture with ethnic elements has determined the architectural  and decorative trim of the building and its spatial structure. The main entrance made as a big portal is decorated by two columns and ornamental panels. Six branchy chandelier lanterns placed on massive pedestals dominate by both sides of the portal. There are three doors with decorative metal parts in the portal with a large ornamented window over them. A bas-relief with Lenin’s order reminds of merits of the theatre.

Allegorical statues of horsemen – a man and a woman with a banner placed on top of the roof personify new Buryatia. The author is A. Timin, a people’s artist of the RSFSR.

Theatre’s front presents varied cubage: curvilinear circular corridors, overhanging with a balcony, flat third floor. Green-rooms with rhythmically repeated windows, monumental fencing of the yard, a stage… .

The rear facade is completed by a light five bay arcade with two massive pylons decorated with stucco ornament. In front of the arcade there is a terrace with a banister and staircases. The fretwork ornamentation attracts attention. So do gates with cast parts, stucco ornament on the fence inside the patio, decorations of sables and squirrels at the private entrance, the interior decoration with ornaments, colonnade, distemper decorated plafond «The triumph of the socialist system» (artists Rublev and Iordanov).

Staircases are decorated by colored stained glass and original lamp stands. It is the typical sample of soviet architecture of the post-war decade. In a small park to the right of the theatre there is a sculptural monument to people’s artists of the USSR, ballet dancers Larisa Sakhyanova and Pyotr Abasheev as Angara and Yenisej from the ballet «A Beauty Angara».

The theatre’s group created the richest repertoire of national and foreign authors. Theatrical experts from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Israel, France, and Mongolia are invited to stage performances.

The theatre building has been under restoration for the last 7 years and in June 2011 it opened its doors anew in a renovated House.