Valentin Nikolayevich Pluchek (Russian: Валенти́н Никола́евич Плу́чек; real name Isaak Nokhimovich Gintsburg, Russian: Исаа́к Нохи́мович Ги́нцбург; 4 September 1909 – 17 August 2002) was a Soviet and Russian theater director and actor. He is known as a stage director of the Physical Culture Day parade in Moscow during the Stalinist epoch.[1] The Physical Culture Day took place each summer at central squares of major Soviet cities. Peter Brook's cousin.[2]
Pluchek worked with the director Vsevolod Meyerhold until he was arrested and shot in 1940, and then worked with the playwright Aleksei Arbuzov. In 1950, he joined the "often-daring" Moscow Satire Theatre in 1950, and rose to chief director in 1957.[3]
Awards and honors edit
- Two Orders of the Patriotic War, 2nd class (1945, 1985)
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1956)[4]
- People's Artist of the RSFSR (1964)[5]
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1970)
- People's Artist of the USSR (1974)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (1979)
- Order of Lenin (1986)
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (1999)
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
- Medal "For the Defence of the Soviet Transarctic"
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
References edit
- ^ Edelman, R. Spartak Moscow: A History of the People's Team in the Workers' State. page 100
- ^ Русский англичанин Питер Брук
- ^ "Valentin Pluchek". The Scotsman. 20 August 2002. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
- ^ Владимир Дуров — В МИРЕ ЦИРКА И ЭСТРАДЫ
- ^ Театральная энциклопедия (под ред. П. А. Маркова)
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