Young Spectator's Theatre (Театр Юного Зрителя, ТЮЗ) was a standard name of a theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 for children and youth in many cities of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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, usually referred to by this abbreviation: тюз, TYuZ (sometimes translated as "TUZ theatre"). The oldest children's theatre under such a name was Moscow

Moscow

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 TYuZ (Московский театр юного зрителя), created in 1918.

A TYuZ was typically a stationary theatre, with a dedicated building that housed several scenes, including a puppet

Puppet

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 theatre.

While considered by many actor

Actor

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s to be less prestigious than "adult" theatres, such theatres served well as entertainment for youth not yet sophisticated enough for more mature theatre.