YOUTH

Biography

Ballet in 3 acts, 8 scenes.

Composer - Mikhail Chulaki. Libretto - Yuri Slonimsky, based on the novel by Nikolai Ostrovsky "How the Steel Was Tempered". Choreography and staging - Dauren Abirov, Diploma thesis at the A. V. Lunacharsky GITIS. Production designer - Vladimir Kolodenko. Production conductor - Evgeny Manayev.

The premiere took place on February 3, 1952 on the stage of the Abay SAOBT.

Characters and performers: Semyon - German Trostyanko; Petya - Rafkhat Urazbaev, Leonid Taganov; Dasha - Nina Krasnova, A. Solntseva, Lidiya Simagina; Dima - Maksut Akzhanov; Lena - Rakul Tazhieva, Valentina Nikitina; Victor - Dmitry Samokhin; Matvey - Sergey Ilnitsky, Almas Bekbosynov.

In one of the southern cities of Russia, during the Civil War period, an experienced conspirator-revolutionary Semyon and a guy Matvey are doing underground activities. A teenager, Petya, the son of a Red Army soldier who died at the front, becomes a witness of their struggle against the Whites. Inspired by what he saw, he calls on his friends Dasha and Dima to join the fight against the whites and takes out the blade of his father-Budennovits, on which three friends swear allegiance. Their childhood is over. The youth has begun.

In the next operation, the underground fighter Matvey must strike the bells. This is a sign of the beginning of the struggle. However, he dies at the hands of the enemy - Victor. The bells are silent. Then Petya rises to the bell tower and throws the enemy from it. Wounded, he gathers strength and pulls the rope of the bell, which sounds louder and louder.

People led by Semyon climb the bell tower and hoist a red flag. Under the flag, there are Petya, his girlfriend Lena, who is the gymnasium student, Dasha and Dima together with other fighters.