“The sad news for the theater world was the death of the People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Lenin Prize laureate Temur Nodarovich Chkheidze,” RIA Novosti quotes her words.

Lyubimova called the director a man of many-sided talent and inexhaustible energy.

Earlier it became known that the Honored Artist of the RSFSR Natalya Velichko died at the age of 81.