Askold Makarov

Askold Makarov was a Russian ballet dancer and ballet professor, leading soloist at the Kirov Ballet during the 1960s and early 1970s. Director of the Saint-Petesburg State Academic Ballet from 1976 to 2000. Makarov became director of the theater Choreographic Miniatures after the Leonid Yakobson's death in 1975. He was awarded the State Prize of the USSR (1951) and People's Artist of the USSR (1983).