Lenkom Theatre [Moscow]
type: Item
label: Lenkom @nl
label: Teatro Lenkom @it
label: Lenkom Theatre
description: Theatre building in Moscow, Russia
description: theater in Moskou @nl
EUTA building identifier: 3030
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Russia
City: Moscow
GPS: Point(37.6067 55.7678)
Wikidata source: Q2396186
opening date: 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
Web: lenkom.ru
architect: Illarion Ivanov-Schitz
Carthalia ID: 5603
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Built 1909 by Illarion Ivanov-Schitz as a merchants' club house with an auditorium for cultural and other events. In World War II used as a hospital, later used as a political club, a party school and, from 1923 as a cinema. Since 1932 used as a youth theatre named Teatr im. Leninskovo Komsomola after the communist Youth organization Lenin Komsomol, shortened Lenkom.