Baltic Fleet Drama Theatre

The Drama Theater of the Baltic Fleet in Kronstadt, founded in 1930 as the Theater of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet, has produced over 400 plays, which have been seen by more than 7 million spectators. The troupe toured cities of the USSR, as well as in Poland, Germany, and Afghanistan, and actively performed in combat conditions, giving 900 concerts during the first month of the war and about 300 during the Soviet-Finnish War. In August 1941, the theater was relocated from Tallinn to Leningrad on ships under bombardment, during which a significant part of the troupe perished. Actress Evgenia Tserebilko became the only woman in the collective to be awarded the Order of the Red Star.