Lenfilm

Kinostudiya Lenfilm Russian is a production unit of the Russian film industry, with its own film studio, located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, formerly Leningrad, R.S.F.S.R. Today OAO Kinostudiya Lenfilm is a corporation with its stakes shared between private owners, and several private film studios, which are operating on the premises. Since October 2012, the Chairman of the board of directors is Fyodor Bondarchuk.

The territory of Lenfilm was originally in the private ownership of the Aquarium garden, which belonged to the merchant Georgy Alexandrov, who operated a restaurant, a public garden and a theatre on the same site. The composer Peter Tchaikovsky came to what was then the Aquarium theatre and is now Stage of Lenfilm as a guest to the 1893 performance of the overture to his The Nutcracker ballet. Famous Russian bass singer Feodor Chaliapin performed here in the 1910s and the early 1920s. Stars of the Soviet era also gave performances here, such as Isaak Dunaevsky, and Leonid Utyosov with his jazzband during the 1920s and 1930s.The facilities and land of the Leningrad film studio were nationalized in 1918 and it was established as a Soviet Statefunded film industry. Within just a few years it bore several different names, such as Petrograd Cinema Committee and SevZapKino among various others. In 1923 the nationalized Aquarium garden was merged with SevZapKino and several smaller studios to form the Soviet Statecontrolled film industry in St. Petersburg. During 1924 1926 it was temporarily named Leningrad Film Factory Goskino and eventually changed its name several times during the 1920s and 1930s. ........

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