Vladimir Urin

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Vladimir Urin, 2013

Vladimir Georgievich Urin (Russian: Владимир Георгиевич Урин) is a People's Artists of Russia and a Bolshoi Ballet director.

Biography

Urin began his theatre career in 1973. In 1981 he moved to Moscow where he became in charge of the Youth and Puppet Theatres Department in Theater Union of Russia. Four years later, he graduated from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and from 1987 to 1996 was the secretary at the Theater Union of Russia where also worked as deputy President. Prior to it, in 1991, he became First Deputy President there, but all of the rankings ended for him in 1996. In 1994 he behind the creation of the Golden Mask award as a National Theatre Award. In 1995 he became general manager of Musical Theatre of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko and two years later held the same position at the International Festival of Contemporary Dance. In 2013, after the scandals inside the Bolshoi theatre and the attack on Artistic Director Sergei Filin, he was appointed as General Director of the Bolshoi Ballet, replacing Anatoly Iksanov.