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Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian figure and theater director, People’s Artist of Ukraine Roman Viktyuk died at the age of 85. This is reported by “Interfax” with reference to the assistant to the artistic director of the Roman Viktyuk Theater Lyudmila Isakovich.
“Roman Grigorievich has passed away,” he said.
On October 27, it became known that Viktyuk was hospitalized with coronavirus.
Roman Viktyuk was born in Lviv on October 28, 1936. He studied at the Moscow State Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS), after graduating he returned to Lvov. Here he worked as an actor in the theater for young spectators and later created a theater studio in the Palace of Pioneers in Lviv.
Later, Viktyuk worked in many cities of the former USSR: Tver, Vilnius, Tallinn, Kiev, Odessa, Saratov, Kazan, Riga, Moscow. In 1991, Viktyuk founded a theater in his name in Moscow and was its main director and artistic director.
He also founded a dance school in Italy, a theater branch in Israel. Viktyuk participated in many theatrical projects in Ukraine. The director is the author of more than 250 theatrical performances, among which are “The lady without camellias”, “Madame Butterfly”, “Lolita” and others.
The director is a People’s Artist of Ukraine and Russia, member of the Institute of Dramatic Theater of Italy, winner of the Maratea Prize for Theater of the Center for European Drama, the Kiev Pectoral Prize, the Triumph Prize of the Union of Ukrainian Theater Workers , the International Prize of the Italian Drama Institute for the best incarnation of contemporary drama.
In 2014, Viktyuk supported Ukraine.
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