A meeting with people's artist of Kazakhstan Yuriy Pomerantsev was held on November 8, in JCC "Rimon".

   Yuriy Borisovitch Pomerantsev is a person who became a theatrical legend of Kazakhstan. He has such awards as State Prize of the Republic of Kazakhstan, an independent "Tarlan" prize and, of course, the main prize - a sincere love of spectators. He is famous among numerous theatre lovers. 60 years of his life were devoted to a play on a stage. He played more than 300 roles in theatre and several of them - in movies, but each of his work was created with great love to his profession and to us, spectators.

   We can say a lot about Pomerantsev. More trustfully and subtly it was done by Igor Gonopolskiy, a film director, who is famous for his works about Sergey Kalmikov and Dmitriy Snegin. Having introduced his film, the author recognized that he had been in close friendly relations with Yuriy Borisovitch for a very long period of time.

   They got acquainted when in 1967 young Gonopolskiy for the first time came to the Theatre of Russian Drama as a photo artist. Exactly form his "photo spying" has begun that friendship that lasts for more than 30 years already.

   That evening the audience was very grateful. Each part of film was met by loud applause. After screening was finished, the audience started a vivid discussion.

   Yuriy Pomerantsev told about his first years on a stage, about his work on a role, about his relations with film director and partners. He also sincerely answered a question concerning his denying form one of the main roles that hi was offered.

   With trembling in a heart Yiriy Borisovitch told about Nataliya Ilyinichna Sats - a wonderful woman, organized a first Young People's Theatre in Kazakhstan.

   "Only an outstanding person could create a theatre in a pavilion saved after shooting a movie "Ivan the Terrible". That pavilion wasn't convenient for work of a theatre. And it was practically impossible to get building materials at a time when war had not been finished yet. There was lack of furniture for auditorium, there wasn't heating system at all", Yuriy Borisovoitch recalled.

   Guests of the evening turned to film's creator Gonopolskiy with a request to continue a film-story about Pomerantsev.

Olga Sergienko