Boris Mezdrich became the director of the theater on Litein

Boris Mezdrich was appointed Executive Director of the St. Petersburg Theater on Litein, dismissed by the Ministry of Culture from the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater (Ngatoib).

“Today, Boris Mezdrich met an administrative part of the collective as a leader,” Tatyana Platonova, deputy director of the theater for finance, told Interfax on June 4.

The State Drama Theater on Litein (the former regional theater of drama and comedy, under the current name - since 1991) was founded in 1909. It was debuted by the directors of Efim Padwe, Lev Dodin, Kama Ginkas, Henrietta Yanovskaya. The theater is in departmental subordination of the Leningrad region.

The former leadership of the theater on Litein was resigned by the Government of the Leningrad Region due to ineffective financial and economic activities and non-fulfillment of state orders for visiting productions for residents of the region.

Earlier, the acting governor of the Leningrad Region, Alexander Drozdenko, reported that the materials for checking the financial and economic activities of the theater on Litein will be transferred to law enforcement agencies and that he intends to invite to the theater as the artistic director of the famous Russian director.

Boris Mezdrich was dismissed from the post of director of Ngatoib at the end of March in connection with the scandal around the production of Wagner's opera Tangeyer .