Юрий Любимов

Yuriy Petrovich Lyubimov 30 September 1917, Yaroslavl, RSFSR – 5 October 2014, Moscow, Russia. Soviet and Russian outstanding theater director, actor, teacher Artistic director (1964-1984; 1989-2011) and director (1990-2011) of the Moscow Taganka Theater = Московский Театр Драмы И Комедии На Таганке. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1992), laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1997), the Stalin Prize II degree (1952) and the Golden Mask Prize (2000). One of the reformers of the Russian theater.