CultureNovember 13, 2026
St. Petersburg's first Tatar folk theatre collects festival awards and plans a jubilee album
The first Tatar folk theatre in St. Petersburg has come back from international and regional competitions with a string of awards, Tatar-inform reported on 12 November.
The company is a laureate of the Zakirov "Idel-yort" theatre groups contest, the "Miras" International Festival of Tatar Culture in Samara and the "Join Hands, Friends!" festival of national cultures in St. Petersburg. It also received diplomas at the "Apas, Tetyushi, Bua" international arts festival and the "Land of Arts" festival.
In 2022 the theatre won a Tatarstan grant competition with a project to stage Robert Thomas's play "Eight Women" in Tatar, titled "Sigez yoryak sere" ("The Secret of Eight Hearts"). It is now preparing a jubilee album about its early years, to be given to the Theatre Library in St. Petersburg.
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