MOSCOW, September 27 Doctor of art history and professor at GITIS Yuri Orlov died at the age of 83, the institute’s telegram channel reported.
«The founder of production education in Russia, GITIS professor Yuri Matveevich Orlov has passed away. At the age of 83, Doctor of Art History, scientific director of the department of production and management of performing arts of the production faculty, Yuri Matveevich Orlov, passed away,» the message says. .
GITIS noted that Orlov, for many generations of theater managers in Russia, has become a high example of love for the theater and the highest professionalism.
«It was thanks to the initiative and energy of Yuri Matveevich, as well as G.G. Dadamyan, A.Ya. Rubinstein, B.B. Sorochkin that the department of economics and organization of theater business arose in 1976 at GITIS, consisting of Faculty of Theater Studies, now the Faculty of Production, and in 1978, Yuri Matveevich headed the Department of Economics and Organization of Theater Business, which he created,” the institute noted.