Valentin Pluchek

He is known as a stage director of the Physical Culture Day parade in Moscow during the Stalinist epoch.

[1] The Physical Culture Day took place each summer at central squares of major Soviet cities.

[2] Pluchek worked with the director Vsevolod Meyerhold until he was arrested and shot in 1940, and then worked with the playwright Aleksei Arbuzov.

In 1950, he joined the "often-daring" Moscow Satire Theatre in 1950, and rose to chief director in 1957.

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