10 Facts About Andrey Goncharov

Andrey Aleksandrovich Goncharov was a Soviet and Russian theater director, pedagogue and author.

Andrey Goncharov is the author of four acclaimed books on the drama theory.

Andrey Goncharov was born on 2 January 1918, in the Sennitsy village of the Ryazan Governorate where he spent his early years.

In 1936 Andrey Goncharov enrolled into the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts; he studied in the actors' class of Vasily Toporkov, then moved to the director's group led by Nikolai Gorchakov.

In 1940 in Ivanovo Andrey Goncharov presented his diploma production of Oleksandr Korniychuk's In the Steppes of Ukraine.

Andrey Goncharov was injured twice in the action and demobilized.

In 1942 Andrey Goncharov became the head and the arts director of the 1st Frontline Theatre, formed by the All-Russian Theatre Society, performing all over the Western Front and at the Baltic Fleet military bases.

In 1944 Andrey Goncharov joined the Moscow Satire Theatre as its deputy director.

For decades Andrey Goncharov taught at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts.

Andrey Goncharov was the secretary of the Russian Theatre Union, and a chairman of the Moscow Art Awards committee.