- Theatre director.
- He started out as an actor before moving into directing. Some of his productions were banned by Soviet authorities for being politically provocative.
- He moved to then-Soviet Georgia, and later to Leningrad. He took the helm of the Leningrad Comedy Theatre, where he lost his job in 1981 after falling out with authorities.
- At the time of his death, he was working on a new production of Alexander Pushkin's play "Boris Godunov".
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