Rybakov, Yuri Sergeevich

Born in Moscow on February 21, 1931 .

In 1953 he graduated from the Theater History Department of GITIS (course leader P. A. Markov ).

In 1954 he worked as an envoy of the Saratov Theater Karl Marx . After some time he returned to Moscow. This time is characterized by a change in the political situation in the country with the beginning of the Khrushchev thaw . Life is changing in all atmospheres, primarily in the humanitarian fields. The leadership of the magazine " Theater " is changing. Instead of Nikolai Pogodin , the author of the famous plays about Lenin, V.F. Pimenov takes the place of the chief editor. And Yuri Sergeyevich Rybakov comes to work in an updated journal. And in 1960 he was appointed deputy chief editor of the magazine.

In the early 1960s, he was an instructor in the ideological department of the Central Committee of the CPSU during the Khrushchev thaw . But very soon he returned to the magazine "Theater", but already to the post of chief editor, and during 1965-1969 - the chief editor of the magazine, which immediately acquired a completely defined democratic direction. The magazine identified itself as a supporter of social updates, it raised important social problems that faced the country at this stage, the magazine became an intellectual reading, calling for an immediate solution to life situations and for a truthful, without social embellishment, display of the realities of life in art.

The encyclopedia Krugosvet described so that period of its activity. “The generation of the sixties was brought up precisely on the basis of the journal led by Rybakov” ^[1] .

But the time of the "thaw" is over. The magazine, led by Rybakov, could not correspond to the period that replaced it. When the time of persecution, hard for the magazine, came, Rybakova, promising him the preservation of the editorial chair, high authorities demanded the dismissal of some employees, including Natalya Krymova . Yuri Sergeevich did not agree and left ^[2] . The Soviet playwright, corresponding to the spirit of socialist realism, V. V. Lavrentyev , was appointed the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Theater" ^[3] .

Since unemployment in the USSR could not officially be, and even an article of the Criminal Code for parasitism existed, and Yu. S. Rybakov was considered a nomenclature worker, he was transferred to another job - at the All-Russian Research Institute of Art Studies. Since 1969 he worked at the All-Russian Research Institute of Art Studies and gradually became interested in the cinema, an area adjacent to the theater. In 1973, he was appointed editor-in-chief of the Goskino USSR thematic group, and in 1974 - adviser to the chairman of the Goskino.

In 1986, with the beginning of the Gorbachev Perestroika, he was invited to the post of chief editor of the magazine " Soviet Screen ". The magazine, with its arrival, immediately loudly declared itself in a new quality, turning into intellectual smart reading. However, after political changes, economic changes began in the country, state institutions and organizations began to be handed over to private hands, and the magazine Sovetskiy Screen appeared at the same time, which changed its name to Ekran at the same time, since everything was Soviet in the names, and already in the new Since 1989 the title has been headed by V.P. Demin .

From 1989, he was a professor at the RATI (until 1991 GITIS; since 1992, professor), he led a seminar on theater criticism.

He was a modest, tactful, a little shy person who kept forever in his soul a trace of monstrous interference with his personal life at the Komsomol meeting of GITIS when he was still a student. He was reserved, laconic, silent - his work spoke for him, and he avoided pomposity and excessive noise, knowing well what decency was and never deviating from this concept. Marina Dmitrevskaya wrote in an obituary of his memory: “They buried without requiem, did not say the last words to the legendary editor-in-chief of the once legendary Theater magazine. Without a pump and a guard of honor - it looks like him ... " ^[4]

He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery ^[5] .

Yu. S. Rybakov has written over 100 articles on theater problems, reviews of performances, and others. His main studies are devoted to domestic theater of the 20th century.

Author of books on the history of the theater:

• “Theater named after Evg. Vakhtangov, Moscow. Fifty seasons. 1921-1971 ”(1971) - text for the anniversary album of the Moscow Theater. Evg. Vakhtangov
• “Theater, Time, Director” (1975),
• "Soviet Theater" (1976, the book has been translated into English, German, Spanish ^[1] ),
• “Theater and Time” (1976),
• "G. A. Tovstonogov. Problems of directing "(1977) ,
• “Colors of life and scenes” (1978),
• “Faces of the theater” (1980),
• “Eras and people of the Russian scene” (1985; 1989, issue 2).
• Soviet drama. 1941-1980. Playbook (1984) - compiled.

In 2000, Yuri Sergeyevich Rybakov was awarded the title "Honored Artist of Russia".

• Rybakov, Yuri Sergeevich. Encyclopedia "Around the World"
• Marina Dmitrevskaya . In memory of Yuri Sergeyevich Rybakov // Petersburg Theater Journal . No. 45, 2006.
• Rybakov Yuri Sergeevich. Russian Encyclopedic Dictionary