Khabarovsk Circus is the most beautiful and youngest circus in Russia

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

State. circus of Khabarovsk is the youngest in Russia. It is located in a beautiful park. Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin. Its official opening took place in 2001. The circus does not have its own permanent team; Russian and foreign artists who come on tour perform in it. During the existence of the circus, a large number of circus groups gave performances on its arena.

A bit of history

The very first circus artists appeared in Khabarovsk at the end of the 19th century. Their performances were a great success with the audience. But due to the remote location of Khabarovsk from the central regions of Russia, they were fickle. A large number of performances were held in tent circuses, temporarily located on the market square. In the first half of the 20th century, entrepreneur Martini built a stationary circus building in Khabarovsk and rented it out to artists who came on tour.

After some time, the circus building became very dilapidated, and the local authoritiesdecided to rebuild a new summer room. This stationary circus building operated until 1959. In the same year, the newest summer building of the circus in Khabarovsk was rebuilt, its hall for spectators consisted of 1950 seats. The main drawback of this circus was the short summer period.

The permanent, all-season circus building was erected in 2001.

Until October 1, 2005, the circus was managed by the Directorate of the Khabarovsk Circus together with the branch of the Russian State Circus.

With the break of the agreement on the lease of the circus complex by the Russian State Circus, on October 1, 2005, it was transferred to the Khabarovsk Regional Film and Video Distribution, then renamed the Khabarovsk Regional Cinema and Circus Association.

On January 1, 2011, the Cinema Circus Association was reorganized into the Regional State Autonomous Cultural Institution "Khabarovsk Regional Cinema Circus Association".

Permanent Circus of Khabarovsk

The plan of the stationary building combined the schemes of the premises of the Yaroslavl, Ussuri and Irkutsk circuses. This is the first permanent complex, which includes a circus and a hotel for artists. The hall can accommodate 1340 people, the height of the dome is 17 meters. The result was a unique masterpiece of architecture, which is the main decoration of the city. Residents of the city call the circus the pearl of Khabarovsk architecture. According to the project, the circus building was supposed to be built in three years, but it was built in one year. The building of the State Circus of Khabarovsk is equipped with new acoustic and lighting special equipment, with the help of which high-level performances are made.

In the arenaa large number of Russian and foreign circus groups staged their performances. Performances of the circus in Khabarovsk were successfully shown under the guidance of famous artists: Nikolai Pavlenko, Mstislav Zapashny, Tigran Akopyan, Natalia Serzh and others.

Held in the circus and city-scale events. KVN teams, singers, dance groups give performances to the audience.

Circus team

For the twelve-year period of the circus's work, a friendly team has formed. An old-timer of the circus is the chief administrator Zhdanko Tamara Petrovna, she started working in it when he was still at the Central Market on Tolstoy Street.

Vet doctor Natalya Vitalievna Pozdeeva has been working in the circus since the very opening. She helps sick animals get well, she also delivers animals, which is a big deal for the circus.

Sound engineer Alexander Vasilyevich Oblachnov has also been working since the opening of the circus. He is a virtuoso of his craft. His talent is highly appreciated by all the artists who come on tour.

Senior Administrator Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Gerber has been with the circus since 2003. Has been running various advertising campaigns for ten years.

Since October 1, 2005, Irina Gennadievna Tumashova has been working in the circus, who moved from the position of chief engineer of the Voskhod cinema to the Cinema Circus Association to the position of deputy chief engineer, later she was transferred to deputy director. Now she leads the team.

Circus performances

During the existence of the circus, the audience was shown the programs of the Russian State Circus, the Nikulin Circus, the BolshoiSt. Petersburg State Circus, Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, Mongolian Circus, Romanian Circus, Chinese Circus, Diamond Circus of Yakutia, Warsaw and others.

In a short period of time, the circus presented about 90 circus programs:

"Circus on the Water";

• "Circus on Ice";
• "Five Continents" - Gia Eradze;
• Mstislav Zapashny's program - "Triumph of the 21st century";
• "Show of exotic animals" - Shatirov's program;
• "18 tigers" - N. Pavlenko;
• "Phantom Tropic" by T. Hakobyan;
• "Tiger Show" - M. Bagdasarov's program;
• "Mysterious Amazons" by Valentina Kulkova;
• VITALI - Vitaly Vorobyov;
• "Bravo" - the program of N. Serge;
• "White Tigers" by O. Denisova;
• "Empire of lionesses" - V. Smolsky;
• "The Illusionist Show" - Doveiko's program;
• "Miracles in the world of Magic" - A. Sokol-Sadoha;
• "Gold-domed Rus" - Dobryakov's program;
• "Elephants and Bear Show";
• "Tales of the East";
• "Eurasia";
• "Soviet circus";
• "Northern Lights";
• "Grando";
• "Shine of little stars" and others.

Artists of various genres from the former republics of the Soviet Union, from Kenya, France, Egypt performed at the circus arena of Khabarovsk.

In the programs of the circus in Khabarovsk, artists in the arena and under the dome showed very complex and dangerous tricks:

• man moving by car;
• American wheel;
• flight;
• trapeze;
• air;
• flip boards;
• voltage;
• oncoming swing;
• predator rides;

rope walkers

The performances were attended by clowns, leaving no one indifferent, the audience constantly laughed at their jokes and antics.

About 2 thousand animals performed in the arena: cats, dogs, horses, cows, ponies, pigs, geese, roosters, goats, foxes, bears, wolves, deer, bison, tigers, monkeys, lions, elephants, parrots, hippos, crocodiles, snakes, ostriches, peacocks, pelicans, pigeons, zebras, kangaroos, raccoons, silver foxes, arctic foxes, porcupines, sea lions, fur seals, penguins and others.

At the request of the audience, many programs came on tour to Khabarovsk many times. Children from boarding schools and orphanages, veterans, children from low-income families, conscripts are always invited to the circus for charity performances.

City Events

The Khabarovsk circus hosts various events at the city and regional level. The arena hosted events dedicated to the anniversaries of the Khabarovsk and Industrial districts, the year of the family, and celebrated the seventieth anniversary of the Committee of Physical Culture and Sports of Khabarovsk.

In the circus of Khabarovsk all the time show performances of touringartists and groups. Among them are Natasha Koroleva, Alexander Malinin, Verka Serduchka, Grigory Leps, Lesopoval, Ranetki, Ural dumplings, Verasy and others.