Nikita Aleksandrovich Dolgushin (November 8, 1938June 10, 2012) was a Russian Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher.Dolgushin in Encyclopedia of Ballet He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1988.Никита Долгушин at the kino-teatr.ru
Education and Career In 1959 he graduated from the Leningrad Choreographic School (Alexander Pushkin's course).Никита Долгушин. Балетный интеллектуал Following graduation, Dolgushin joined Kirov Ballet and then moved to Novosibirsk. In 1961–1966, he was the leading dancer of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre.Биография Никиты Долгушина. РИА Новости. From 1968 to 1983 Dolgushin was a ballet dancer with the Mikhailovsky Theatre and Ballet and in 2007 returned to Saint Petersburg as a pedagogue. From 2009 to 2011 he was a chairman of the Mikhailovsky Theatre's Art Council. Throughout 15 remaining years of his life, Dolgushin served on a choreography faculty of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
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Сказка его жизни. Никита Долгушин.