Donetsk National Academic Ukrainian Musical and Drama Theatre

A year later, V. Vasilko, a student of Les Kurbas who later became an Honoured People's Artist of Ukraine, was appointed the art director.

In 1933, at the invitation of the People's Commissariat of Education of Ukraine, the creative team was transferred to Donetsk (then Stalino), where the first season opened on November 7, 1933, with the premiere of I. Mikitenko's play The Bastille of the Virgin (Ukrainian: Бастилія божої матері).

During its first 10 years the theatre visited the main cities of the Donets Basin (Voroshilovgrad, Mariupol, Gorlovka, Donetsk, Makiivka and Slavyansk) and also travelled outside the region, to Baku, Minsk, Vitebsk, Gomel, Mogilev, Leningrad, Rostov-on-Don and Kyiv.

Another, somewhat bigger group joined the Stalin Drama Theatre in Horlivka on their way to Central Asia and worked in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyz SSR.

[5] The theater became one of the centers of Ukrainian theatrical culture of the Donetsk region, so Ukrainian plays predominate in the repertory: The company's repertoire includes various works from other countries: A small stage, created after the renovation of the theatre, functions as a place for creative exploration and experimentation.