Askold Makarov

Askold Anatolievich Makarov (Russian: Аскольд Анатольевич Макаров, 1925-2000) was a Russian ballet dancer and ballet professor, leading soloist at the Kirov Ballet during the 1960s and early 1970s. Director of the Saint-Petesburg State Academic Ballet from 1976 to 2000. Awarded with: State Prize of the USSR (1951) and People's Artist of the USSR (1983).[1][2]

Askold Makarov became director of the theater Choreographic Miniatures after the Leonid Yakobson’s death in 1975.[3]

Sources

  1. ↑ Askold Makarov Encyclopedia of Russian Ballet, accessed December 27, 2007. (in Russian)
  2. ↑ Saint-Petesburg State Academic Ballet Ballet's site, accessed December 27, 2007.
  3. ↑ St. Petersburg State and Academic Ballet Theatre at the Wayback Machine (archived May 9, 2008). Retrieved May 15, 2014/