Litvak worked with Leningrad's Nordkino Studios where he was assistant director for nine silent films.

The strategy was motivated by Leningrad's political status as the former capital of Russia and the symbolic capital of the Russian Revolution, its military importance as a main base of the Soviet Baltic Fleet and its industrial strength, housing numerous arms factories.

In 1976, Enns nearly derailed plans by the Schreyer government to bring a series of Russian artworks from Leningrad's Hermitage and the State Russian Museum to Manitoba, during a North American tour.

After the fall of Communism in Russia, many prominent Soviets came to Turku to study Western business practices, among them Vladimir Putin, then Leningrad's deputy mayor.

" At Leningrad's Gates: The Story of a Soldier with Army Group North.

About 2, 000 of Leningrad's public figures were removed from their positions and exiled from their city, thus losing their homes and other property.

Leningrad's Rock Club was one of the few public places where rock bands were allowed to perform.

But this did not stop Leningrad's growing popularity, partly because of the rich brass sound.

" Several of Leningrad's recent songs portray women ( using Yuliya Kogan's voice ) worshiping man's penis.

Thus Leningrad's numerous performances in Moscow were limited to privately-owned night clubs or bars.

In the late 1980s the relics were discovered in Leningrad's Museum of Religion and Atheism, and on 16 September 1991 they were solemnly returned to the new Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in Belgorod, in the presence of Patriarch Alexy II.

He took part in the relief of Leningrad's siege in January 1944.

The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

The Kirov Ballet is firmly booked into the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, Nov. 21 thru Dec. 4.

-- For its final change of bill in its London season, the Leningrad State Kirov Ballet chose tonight to give one of those choreographic miscellanies known as a `` gala program '' at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

* June 16 – Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev requests asylum in France while in Paris with the Kirov Ballet.

One dancer who danced briefly for Balanchine was Mikhail Baryshnikov, an exemplar of Kirov Ballet training.

Traditionally " classical " companies, such as the Kirov Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet, also regularly perform contemporary works.

The first production was on 3 December 1942, staged by the Kirov Ballet while in Perm ( Russia ) for the duration of the Second World War and was broadcast on the radio.

During the 1960s and 1970s, audiences could see the Stuttgart Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, Bolshoi Ballet and Kirov Ballet as well as popular movies and performing artists.

Through the 1930s he conducted at the Kirov Ballet and Bolshoi Opera.

However, he felt that the Kirov Ballet school was the best, so he left the local touring company and bought a ticket to Leningrad .< ref >

Internationally, the Mariinsky Ballet is most commonly known by its former Soviet name the Kirov Ballet.

Following the assassination of the Bolshevik revolutionary Sergey Kirov in 1934, the then Soviet Ballet, was renamed the Kirov Ballet a name which is most commonly used to identify the company to this day.

Kirov Ballet logo used by Victor Hachhauser, promoting the Mariinsky Ballet in London

< center > Poster advertising the Kirov / Mariinsky Ballet ’ s performances of La Bayadère at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood during the company ’ s tour in 2003.

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After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he defected to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in western dance.

He joined the Kirov Ballet and Mariinsky Theater in 1967, dancing the “ Peasant ” pas de deux in Giselle.

The collection documents the famous Imperial Ballet's ( today the Kirov / Mariinsky Ballet ) repertory from the turn of the 20th century-the majority of which were staged by the great choreographer Marius Petipa.

Queried about the impasse, Allied Arts said: `` Better cancel the Kirov for the time being.

So the Kirov will fly back to Russia, minus a Chicago engagement, a serious loss for dance fans -- and for the frustrated bookers, cancellation of one of the richest bookings in the country.

After the murder of Sergei Kirov in 1934, Pavlov wrote several letters to Molotov criticizing the mass persecutions which followed and asking for the reconsideration of cases pertaining to several people he knew personally.

In 1906, Kirov was arrested once again, but this time jailed for over three years, charged with printing illegal literature.

The Kirov Factory and Omsk Transmash design bureau ( KBTM ) produced T-80 tanks from the 1970s, and were responsible for the BTR-T, TOS-1, and the prototype Black Eagle tank.

Another defendant, Ivan Smirnov, confessed to taking part in the assassination of Sergei Kirov in December 1934, at a time when he had already been in prison for a year.

In December 1934, it was renamed for the Soviet leader Sergey Kirov, who had been assassinated on December 1.

Most modern guided missile cruisers have a similar displacement ( 10, 000 tons for Ticonderoga, 12, 000 for Slava, 28, 000 for Kirov ).

After its premiere in Perm, Anisimova twice restaged Gayane for the Kirov ; after revising it, the 1952 version stands as the definitive version of Gayane.

On February 14, 1943 the State Defense Committee accepted it for Red Army service and immediately launched it into mass production at the Chelyabinskiy Kirovskiy Zavod ( Chelyabinsk Kirov Plant, ChKZ ).

The version passed down to the present day was staged by Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet ( today the Kirov / Mariinsky Ballet ).

As this process unfolded, Stalin consolidated near-absolute power using the 1934 assassination of Sergei Kirov ( which many suspect Stalin of having planned, although there is no evidence for this ) as a pretext to launch the Great Purges against his suspected political and ideological opponents, most notably the old cadres and the rank and file of the Bolshevik Party.

On June 25, 1974, the region was awarded the Order of Lenin for achievements in economic and cultural development, and the city of Kirov received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.

In 1978 Pierre Lacotte staged the Pas de Six for the Kirov / Mariinsky Ballet, who still retain it in their repertory.

The districts are generally named for Sergey Kirov, a Soviet statesman.

At a Party congress in January 1934, Kirov demonstrated his popularity over that of Stalin, where he received the fewest negative votes of any delegate ( three, as opposed to 292 for Joseph Stalin ).

" On October 15, 1934, he was arrested by the NKVD, allegedly for loitering around the Smolny Institute, where Sergei Kirov, the popular administrator of the Leningrad district, had his offices.

After Nikolaev's visit, the NKVD failed to augment Kirov's security ; instead, it withdrew all police protection for Kirov with the exception of a police escort to Smolny and a manned security post at the entrance to his offices.