Aleksandr Belinsky(1928-2014)

Meritorious Artist, the State Prize Laureate, director, actor and scriptwriter Aleksandr Arkadyevich Belinsky was born on 5 April 1928 in Leningrad. In 1944, he entered Department of Theatre History of GITIS. Later, he went to Leningrad and entered the Directing Department of the Leningrad Theatre Institute, which he finished in 1950, making his debut with the performance of "The Third Year Student" by A. Borozina on the stage of the V. F. Komissarzhevskaya Drama Theatre. He staged 193 performances on TV and at Moscow and Leningrad - Saint-Petersburg theatres. In 1988, Alexander Belinsky staged at the Vakhtangov Theatre the play "Glass of Water" by E. Skrib - it was a benefit performance of Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev, to mark his 60th birthday. Yuliya Borisova, Lyudmila Maksakova, Olga Chipovskaya, Maksim Sukhanov took part in the performance. Belinsky also prepared a celebration evening for the anniversary of the Vakhtangov Theatre. In 1961-1985, Alexander Belinsky worked as a production director at Leningrad Television; he staged 112 performances and TV films, regardless of "Blue light" New Years show and "Kabachok 13 stulyev" editions. During his work at the Cherkasov Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography, the associate professor of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Alexander Belinsky trained such students as E. Safonova, T. Kuznetsova, K. Vorobyev, etc. He headed the Saint Petersburg Theatre of Musical Comedy from 1995 until 2002.