The State Academic Russian Drama Theatre after A. Pushkin

The Russian Theatre was opened in 1920 on the basis of amateur group. This was the first professional theater in Yakutia. The first season opened on September, 15, 1920 with Maxim Gorky's play «At the Bottom » .

At different times various performances of such prominent authors as Lev Tolstoi, Maxim Gorkiy, Anton Chekhov, Alexey Ostrovskiy, Feodor Dostoevskiy, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller, Molire, Lope de Vega, Karlo Goldoni, etc were stagedat the theatre.

Ideological - aesthetic traditions of theatre have been incorporated by such well-known masters of the stage, as V.Saprygin, D.Hadkov, P.Urbanovich, V.Buturlin, A.Krupnova, V.Stalsky, A.Kramova, V.Batashov, M.Vladimirova, K.Anufriev, N. Konstantinova.

In 1980 the theatre was awarded «the Mark of Honor » and in 1998 the title of academic theatre was bestowed upon it and in 2000 the theatre was named after Alexander S. Pushkin. Creative biographies of People's Actors of Russia - Nina Konstantinova, Valentin Antonov, Alexander Kuznetsov, the Honored Artist of Russia Edwardas Kupshis, the Honored Worker of Arts of Russia (the main artist) Nikolay Popov, including the entire artists of the theatre, their professional skill, fidelity to theatrical business serve as a model for the theatrical youth.

The Pushkin State Academic Russian Theater much refers to children's repertoire.

The performances of the theatre cover a huge territory; 85 settlements and regional centers, Khabarovsk, Chita, Magadan, Minsk and Bobruisk in Belarus, Ust Kamenogorsk and Leninsk in Kazakhstan, festivals in Ioshkar-Ola in the Republic Mary El, «The Good message» in Blagoveshchensk. Since the theatre opened here have been 551 opening nights.