Company
The faces of our stage
People's and Honoured Artists of Azerbaijan alongside a young generation raised in the theatre's own studio.
Artistic leadership
Artistic director · People's Artist of Azerbaijan
Alexander Sharovsky
With the theatre since 1976 and artistic director since 1993. A recipient of the Orders of Glory and Honour, the Russian Order of Friendship and the Pushkin Medal.
Theatre director
Adalat Hajiyev
Has headed the theatre's administration since 2008.
The theatre's actors
The faces of our stage
Fakhraddin Manafov
People's Artist of Azerbaijan
Hadji Murad Yagizarov
People's Artist of Azerbaijan
Lyudmila Dukhovnaya
People's Artist of Azerbaijan
Natalia Sharovskaya
People's Artist of Azerbaijan
Safa Mirzagasanov
People's Artist of Azerbaijan
Mabud Maharramov
People's Artist of Azerbaijan
Yevgenia Nevmerzhitskaya
People's Artist of Azerbaijan
Fuad Osmanov
People's Artist of Azerbaijan
Alexandra Nikushina
People's Artist of Azerbaijan
Ayan Mirkasimova
People's Artist of Azerbaijan
Mehriban Zeki
Honoured Artist of Azerbaijan
From the company's history
Over a century dozens of outstanding actors have played on this stage — among them People's Artists Margarita Anninskaya, Pyotr Zharikov, Nina Sarnatskaya and Grigory Sorin. Their school lives on in the company today.
The theatre studio
Many of the actors came to the stage through the drama studio and the Azerbaijan University of Culture and Arts — and so the tradition is passed from one generation to the next.