Nikolai Kolyada died. The playwright and director, who during his lifetime became a modern Ural classic, is remembered by Yan Levchenko Nikolay Kolyada. Photo: Alexander Avilov / AGN “Moscow” Kolyada died on the night of March 2, and on the same day his theater produced the play “Orpheus Descends to Hell.” During the rehearsal, the irrepressible artistic director ran away from the hospital, but a week ago he was connected to a ventilator, with which you can no longer escape.

material: Yan Levchenko illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili At the end of November, the largest Black Nights Film Festival in Northern Europe and the Baltic Sea region ended in Tallinn. The film “The Winners Are Seen at the Start” took part in the feature film competition of the Baltic countries. This is the first feature film by Zhannat Alshanova, a director from Kazakhstan who lives between Almaty and London.