Murmansk Regional Puppet Theater

The oldest professional theater in the Arctic Circle!

It was founded in August 1933 in Khibinogorsk (now Kirovsk) by V. A. Podobedov and young Leningrad actors. The first performance of the theater is "Ivashka-batrachonok".

During the Great Patriotic War, the theater served the cause of Victory over the Nazis. In total, during the war years, more than 100 concert programs were prepared and about 1000 front-line concerts were played, at least 200 –directly in the front-line zone. For their work, the entire staff of the puppet theater was awarded medals, commendations and certificates.

In 1972, an event occurred that radically changed the life of the theater – the Murmansk Regional Puppet Theater moved to a new premises at the address: Sofia Perovskaya Street, house 21A, in the building of the regional scientific library. For a long time, the theater did not have its own separate building. At the moment, the major renovation of the building at 27 Lenin Avenue has been completed and the theater has its own house!

The Murmansk Regional Puppet Theater was one of the initiators of the International Festival of Puppet Theaters of the Barents Region. In 2001, the puppet Theater hosted the III International Festival of Puppet Theaters of the Barents Region, and in 2011 – the VIII-th Festival. In 2019, the theater again became the organizer of the IX International Festival of Puppet Theaters of the Barents Region.