Zinovy Korogodsky

Zinovy Yakovlevich Korogodsky (Russian: Зиновий Яковлевич Корогодский; July 29, 1926, Tomsk, USSR – May 22, 2004, St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian theater director,[1] Professor, People's Artist of the RSFSR,[2] winner of the Stanislavsky Award, an honorary professor of the Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University.

In 1950 he graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts.

[3] In 1986 he was convicted on false charges of sodomy, but the sentence was canceled and the case closed for lack of evidence.

In 2001, he was appointed a professor at Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University where he taught until his death in 2004.

He received an honorary professor of the University (posthumously).