The names of laureates of the Marcel Salimzhanov Prize announced

7 November 2017, Tuesday

Today, November 7, 2017, at the Tatar State Academic Theater  named after  G. Kamal  a  ceremony of presenting the second Republican prize in the field of theatrical art named after Marcel Salimzhanov have been announced. The award is awarded for a significant contribution to the development of professional theatrical art of the Republic of Tatarstan and is awarded once every two years.

The award ceremony was opened by presenter of the evenings - People's Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan Lyutziya Khamitova and Honored Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan  Fanis Ziganshin. The first deputy minister of culture of the Republic of Tatarstan Elvira Kamalova made a welcoming speech. In a solemn atmosphere, Elvira Rafaelevna announced the names of laureates.

This year the prize has been  awarded to:

- director of Menzelinsky Tatar State Drama Theater named after S. Amutbayev, Honored Worker of Culture of RT  Shaimardanov Robert Shaykhilyevich;

-  the collective  of the Kazan State Theater of Young Spectator;

- playwright, Honored Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan Khamidullin Rizvan Mirkhabibullovich (posthumously).

After the award ceremony, the premiere of Mirkai and Aisilu Naki Isanbet, staged by Ilgiz Zainiev, was played on the stage of Kamalovsky Theater.

Marcel Khakimovich Salimzhanov was born on November 7, 1934 in Kazan to the family of actors Khakim Salimzhanov and Galiya Nigmatullina. After graduation, he entered the law faculty of the Kazan State University named after V.I. Ulyanov-Lenin, but left the last year and continued his education at the director's faculty of GITIS named after A.V. Lunacharsky in Moscow.

After graduating from the  GITIS, in 1962 he became the director of the Kazan Theater of Young Spectator. Since 1966 he has been working as the chief director of the Tatar Academic Theater named after G. Kamal and at the same time he teaches at the Kazan Theater School and the Kazan Academy of Culture and Arts (professor since 1992).

M. Salimzhanov performed 88 plays of national drama, domestic and foreign classics, included in the gold fund of the Tatar Academic Theater. G. Kamala.

M. Kh. Salimzhanov died on March 26, 2002. He was buried in the Tatar cemetery in the Novo-Tatar sloboda of Kazan.

Titles and awards M. Salimzhanov: Honored Artist of the Tatar ASSR (1969),  the laureate of the State Award  of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic named after G. Tukai (1971), Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1975),  the laureate of the State award  of the RSFSR named after K. Stanislavsky (1979) , People's Artist of the RSFSR (1980), People's Artist of the USSR (1984), Order of Friendship of Peoples (1994), the laureate of the National Theater Award "Golden Mask" in the nomination "For Honor and Dignity" (2001),  the full member of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan (2001) .

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