THE PROBLEM OF TRAINING THEATER PERSONNEL FOR CHUVASHIA IN THE 20–30s OF THE XX CENTURY

Abstract

In the 1920s Chuvashia was developing rapidly, and the growth in the number of cultural institutions was observed. The cadres of the creative intelligentsia were in demand, but there were no field-oriented specialized educational institutions in the republic. The issue of training specialists began to be dealt with at the level of state and party bodies. One of the first to open was the theater studio, which gave the opportunity to strengthen the staff of two republican theaters. Moderate funding allocated to support the theater arts, and the entire culture as a whole, of course affected its quality. But the enthusiasm of I.S. Maksimov-Koshkinsky, I.A. Slobodsky and other people of art allowed to continue the work of personnel training.
 
 In the 1920s and 1930s, training of creative intelligentsia cadres reached a new qualitative level. Financing of cultural institutions, provision with qualified teaching staff, regulation of admission, training, and graduation in educational institutions yielded positive results. In 1935, a theater vocational school was opened in Cheboksary. In 1934, a special collective farm-state farm department was opened at the extramural department of the State Institute of Theater Arts, and a little later, in 1940, a specialized Chuvash theater studio was opened. The activity of the theater school was curtailed, but specialists training was successfully conducted by the studio under GITIS (the Russian University of Theatre Arts). In the pre-war years, 6 new theaters were opened in the republic. The national creative intelligentsia was formed.