“Construction of a new building for Kazan Puppet Theater begins in 2006”

Construction of a new building for Kazan State Puppet Theater “Akiat” begins in 2006. RT Vice –prime minister and culture minister Zilya Valeyeva reported this piece of news on a session of RT State Council Committee on culture, science, education, and national subjects.

Kazan Puppet theater was established in 1934 and is at present situated in a former building of a church. There are 2 companies Russian and Tatar working in the theater at present. The group of the theater is a participant of international festivals. “Akiat” celebrated a 70-year’s anniversary in November 2004, that is when President Shaimiyev promised to build a new place and to return the church to believers. There was a land chosen for these aims in the center of Kazan, but later they founded that the lot has a different owner. The problem is presently settled in Kazan city Administration on exchanging this very lot to another one.