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.

-- 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.

Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, famous for classic purity of technique, begins its first U.S. tour in New York ( through Sept. 30 ).

* 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.

Oh-the-pain-of-it, that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to the stage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.

This is all the more remarkable because the Kirov is to ballet what Senator Goldwater is to American politics.

* 1934 – In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolayev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.

** In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot and killed at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolaev ( it is widely thought that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered this murder ).

Combined nuclear and steam propulsion system ( CONAS ) is used on the Kirov class Guided missile cruisers.

Sovetsk (), formerly Kukarka (; ), is a town and the administrative center of Sovetsky District of Kirov Oblast, Russia.

Kirov (), formerly known as Vyatka () and Khlynov (), is a city and the administrative center of Kirov Oblast, Russia, located on the Vyatka River.

Kirov (; masculine ) or Kirova (; feminine or masculine genitive ) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.

They are the products of different design bureaus ; the T-80 is from the SKB-2 design bureau of the Kirov Factory ( LKZ ) in Leningrad while the T-72 is from the Uralvagonzavod factory in Nizhny Tagil, Russia.

When critics analysed Gayane, they saw that, in strict ballet terms, it is incompletely successful as a whole, because of its naïve libretto, and because of its overtly sociological story emphasis, yet, choreographers, critics, and historians persuaded the Kirov Theatre to profitably stage excerpts of the ballet.

* January 14-Nikolay Shaklein is sworn in as governor of Kirov.

It is said that the Kirov / Mariinsky Ballet still dance the ballet in Petipa's original design nearly unchanged.

Vetluga (,, Vütla ) is a river in the Kirov Oblast, Kostroma Oblast, Mari El Republic and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast of Russia.

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.

The horses left behind in East Prussia became important in the breeding of Russian breeds such as the Kirov as well as the Polish Mazury ( also known as the Masuren ) and Pozan ( or Poznan ), which developed into the Wielkopolski.

As Russian society went into crisis, Kirov became a Marxist and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party ( RSDLP ) in 1904.

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 ).

Several roads cross into Kirov Oblast, but they are all unpaved and badly maintained.

Following the adoption of the new Constitution in 1936, Kirov Territory was transformed into Kirov Region and the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( ASSR ) was separated from it.

Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov was born into a peasant family in the village of Butyrki in central Russia ( now in Kirov Oblast ).

In fact, the legends about Chudes ( Čuđit ) cover a large area in northern Europe from Scandinavia to the Urals, bounded by Lake Ladoga in the south, the northern and eastern districts of the Vologda province, and passing by the Kirov region, further into Komi-Permyak Okrug.

It was during a 1974 Bolshoi visit that a young Mikhail Baryshnikov, on loan from the Kirov, bolted from the Centre's stage door, down The Esplanade and into a waiting getaway car and freedom.

It flows through the city Glazov and flows into the Vyatka River in Kirovo-Chepetsk, east of Kirov.

Allied Arts then notified us that the Kirov would cut short its Los Angeles booking, fly here to open Nov. 28, and close Dec. 2.

This was followed for the next three seasons by the world-famous Mariinsky ( Kirov ) Theatre from St. Petersburg, by Covent Garden from London in 1998, the Opéra national du Rhin from Strasbourg in 1999, the New Israeli Opera in 2000, Los Angeles Opera in 2001, the Deutsche Opera am Rhein in 2002, and the Choir and Orchestra of the Municipal Theatre of Santiago in 2003, with a staging of Sergio Ortega's Fulgor y Muerte de Joaquín Murieta, after a libretto by Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.