Zinovy Korogodsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Zinovy Korogodsky

Date of Birth: 29-Jul-1926

Place of Birth: Tomsk, Tomsk Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 22-May-2004

Profession: dramaturge, drama teacher, theater director

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Zinovy Yakovlevich Korogodsky (Russian: ??????? ????????? ???????????; July 29, 1926, Tomsk, USSR – May 22, 2004, St.
Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian theater director, Professor, People's Artist of the RSFSR, winner of the Stanislavsky Award, an honorary professor of the Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University. In 1950 he graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts.
He worked in the theaters of Leningrad, Kaluga, Kaliningrad.
In 1962-1986 he was the leader of the Leningrad Young People’s Theatre.In 1986 he was convicted on false charges of sodomy, but the sentence was canceled and the case closed for lack of evidence.
He was head of the laboratory young playwrights Russia. In 2001, he was appointed a professor at Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University where he taught until his death in 2004.
He received an honorary professor of the University (posthumously). He was buried in Komarovo, Saint Petersburg.