Russian State Institute of Performing Arts

The State Institute of Performing Arts is one of the oldest and largest educational institutions of its kind in Russia. Over the centuries of its history, the institute has been reorganized and renamed several times reflecting on the turbulent history of the Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation. Its current name and academic status were established in 1993, while before that it was named Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinema.

The academy has approximately 950 full-time students with 200 faculty in four departments — Drama Department, Puppetry Department, Set Design and Stage Technology Department, and the Theatre Studies Department.

The Academy Theatre gives public performances by students of the academy throughout the education process — from 10 to 16 different productions a year, amounting to between 150-180 public performances.

• Official website (in Russian) (in English)
• Information about the Academy in English
• Stanislavsky in Practice: Actor Training in Post-Soviet Russia by Vreneli Farber (New York: Peter Lang, 2008), ISBN 978-1-4331-0315-5