The famous ballet dancer, who made the whole world to admire the ballet art again. He was born on April 17, 1938, in the train on the way to Irkutsk. The artist through all his life kept his love for travelling. The metaphor of eternal movement, which was the base of his being, was incarnated in his dances.

For the first time Rudolph Nureyev saw the ballet art in Ufa, when he was six – at Bashkir State Theatre of Opera and Ballet, the performance “The Crane Song”, with Zaituna Nasretdinova starring, whom Nureyev regarded the best national ballet-dancer till the end of his life.

Ufa Choreographic College is located at Ufa school N2, where Rudolph Nureyev studied. In 1993 the memorial tablet was installed there with such words: “The prominent ballet-dancer of the XX century Rudolph Nureyev started his splendid way on this stage in 1953-1955”.

For his 30-years career Rudolph Nureyev played more than 100 parts, he worked with 40 world troupes and staged practically all classical ballets (“The Swan’s Lake”, “Raimonda”, “The Nutcracker” etc) and produced new ballets (“Cinderella”, “The Storm” and others).

In 1961, touring with his theatre in Paris, Nureev requested a political asylum. Then he played at London’s “Royal Ballet”, in the ballet troupe of Chicago Opera and was the head of the ballet troupe of Paris Opera.

He died in 1993 and was buried near Paris at the cemetery of Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois.