Oktyabrskiy Big Concert Hall is one of concert platforms in the centre of Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

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Concert hall it is used basically for performance of variety actors

Variety show

A variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and sketch comedy, and normally introduced by a compère or host. Other types of acts include magic, animal and circus acts, acrobatics, juggling...

, rock music

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

ians, and also dancing

Dance

Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....

 and ballet

Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...

 collectives.

As the director of a hall since 1988 Emma Lavrinovich works.

History

Till 1961 on a place occupied now "Oktyabrskiy", there was a Greek church (1861, architect Roman Kuzmin), entitled the Greek Square and Greek Prospekt.
Circumstances of a pulling down of church are described in Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters...

 Ostanovka v pustyne's poem.

The new building has been constructed in 1967 under the project of the group of authors headed Alexander Zhuk.
Over the project architect

Architect

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s worked Alexander Zhuk, Vflentin Kamensky, Jean Verzhbitsky, engineer

Engineer

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s Galkin, Maksimov.
The building silhouette is allocated with strict geometry, the facade decorates a huge stained-glass window.
Over a front entrance there is a bronze frieze of work of sculptor Mikhail Anikushin

Mikhail Anikushin

Mikhail Konstantinovitch Anikushin a famous Soviet Russian sculptor. Among his most famous works are a monument to Alexander Pushkin at Pushkinskaya Station of the Saint Petersburg Metro , a monument to Alexander Pushkin at Arts Square in Saint Petersburg , a monument to Vladimir Lenin at...

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At steps at an input in a building sculpture "October" sculptor Alexander Matveev

Alexander Matveev

Alexander Matveev was one of the leading Russian sculptors of his generation, working in a simple, vigorous, modern classical style similar to Aristide Maillol of France...

 (It is cast from bronze

Bronze

Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...

 after death of the author - in 1968 under the original of 1927) is established.

The hall has been opened by fiftieth anniversary of October revolution

October Revolution

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, its capacity makes 3727 places (including a balcony 1,043).
According to administration, attendance of a concert hall — about one million spectators in a year.

In 2009 repair was necessary for a concert hall.
Works will mention all systems of a building, they will be is spent from July till October, 2009.