Sergey Kurginyan
| Sergei Ervandovich Kurginyan | |
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| Born |
14 November 1949 Moscow Moscow, Russia |
| Residence | Russia |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Fields | Physics, mathematics |
| Institutions | Experimental Creative Center |
| Alma mater | Moscow Institute of Geological Exploration, Shchukin's Theatre School |
| Known for | political scientist founder and leader of a Russian movement Essence of Time |
Sergei Ervandovich Kurginyan(Russian: Сергей Ервандович Кургинян) is a Russian scientist, better known as a theatre producer and a politician. He is the founder and leader of a Russian public communist patriotic movement Essence of Time.
He was born in Moscow; his father, Yervant Amayakovich Kurginyan (1914–1996), of Armenian origin, was a professor of Modern History and a specialist on the Middle East. His mother, Mary S. Kurginyan (Beckman) (1922–1989), was a Senior Research Fellow at the Gorky Institute of World Literature, an expert on T. Mann and the author of several monographs. His grandfather on the mother's side was a white officer, who went over to the red side in the Civil War; he was executed on 2 November 1938.
Sergey Kurginyan has graduated from the Moscow Institute of Geological Exploration with specialty of "geophysics" (1972). He finished the Shchukin's Theatre School (1983), specializing in "directing the drama." Sergey got his Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences, Fellow Institute of Oceanology, USSR Academy of Sciences (1974–1980). Up to 1986, he was a senior research fellow at the Laboratory of Applied Cybernetics, Moscow Institute of Geological Exploration.
Kurginyan was a member of the commission on new theatrical forms of the Theatre Union of the RSFSR and the initiator of the socio-economic experiment "Studio Theatre at the collective work contract." In 1967, while a student, Kurginyan created his own Theatre Studio which in 1986, together with the studios of M. Rozovsky, "the South-West", "Man" and others took part in the experiment "Theatre in the collective work contract." According to the results of the experiment Kurginyan's theatre "On the boards" got the status of a state theatre. The theatre of Sergey Kurginyan confesses Philosophy and metaphysical approach to the phenomena of our time.
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