The Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation or STD of RSFSR (russian: Союз театральных деятелей Российской Федерации (СТД РСФСР), links=no) is the principal actors and theatrical workers union of

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

founded in 1887. It was previously known as the

Russian Theatrical Society Russian Theatrical Society or RTO (russian: Русское театральное общество (РТО)) was a theatrical society, which was formed in the Russian Empire and worked during Bolshevik Russia and Soviet Union periods. It was a Trade ...

. The Russian Theatrical Society had its own theatrical and opera ensembles, which toured the Soviet Union, and also the frontline during the

Great Patriotic War The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Sout ...

. The VTO Soviet Opera Ensemble was founded by

Ivan Kozlovsky Ivan Semyonovich Kozlovsky (russian: Ива́н Семё́нович Козло́вский, uk, Іван Семенович Козловський; also referred to as Kozlovskiy or Kozlovskij; 21 December 1993) was a Soviet lyric tenor and on ...

in 1938.Михаил Михайлович Яковлев ''Гордость советской музыки: музыканты, Герои Социалистического ...'' 1987, p. 179: "В 1938 г. по инициативе Козловского был создан Ансамбль оперы. Здесь он осуществил постановку ряда опер, в которых участвовал и как исполнитель. Чрезвычайно широк концертный репертуар Козловского, включающий .."

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