KARELIAN STUDIO: THE REASONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE ACTOR's CLASS CREATION

The article examines the history of creation of the Karelian studio of the Central Theater School - Leningrad Theater Institute in 1938-1943. The author focuses on the reasons for the formation of actors' studio in connection with the transformation of the Finnish Drama Theater KASSR into Karelian one. The article discusses the specifics of the work of theater schools in the 1930s which prepare the national personnel. Attention is focused on the stages of the formation of the Karelian studio and its composition. The work is based on a complex of methods with the dominance of the historical and biographical method. Variety of sources, mainly archival documents, have been used in the study, most of which are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. As a result of the work done, the personnel of the Karelian workshop was restored. It is concluded that the emergence of the national studio was caused by a complex of circumstances, the dominant role among which was played by the vector of national-state policy in the USSR.