Background
Alexander Dzekun was born on December 15, 1945 in the village of Olginka (now Volnovakhsky district of the Donetsk region of Ukraine).
Alexander Dzekun was born on December 15, 1945 in the village of Olginka (now Volnovakhsky district of the Donetsk region of Ukraine).
At the end of 8 class of secondary school Alexander entered the directing department of Dnepropetrovsk Theatrical School. When he finished Dnipropetrovsk school in 1966, was distributed to the Kirovograd regional philharmonic as the artist of the colloquial genre. At the same time Alexander Ivanovich tried to enter the director's department of the Kart State Technical University named after I. Karpenko-Kary, but the reception was refused.
As part of the concert brigade of the Kirovograd Philharmonic, Alexander traveled all over Ukraine. Then served an emergency service in the Soviet Army. After demobilization, returned to Volnovaha, where he became the head of the theatrical collective in the regional house of culture. A few years later, the collective which was headed by him received the status of a national theater. Dzekun went to enter LGITMiK. In 1974 he graduated from the Directing Department of LGITMiK, his teachers were Alexander Muzil, Vladimir Ehrenberg, Eugene Zlobin. Graduation performance planned to put in Riga, in the Riga theater of Russian drama. Initially, Dzekun staged a performance based on the play "Transit" by L. Zorin, but for political reasons, the rehearsals were interrupted (KGB ideologists also considered this play "Discrediting the honor of Soviet leaders"), and it was necessary to start rehearsing the play about the working class («Den' den'skoj» by Vekslera and Misharina).
In 1974, Dzekun went to work in the Saratov Drama Theater Slonova. Since 1974 he worked as director in the Saratov Academic Drama Theater, then, in 1982, he became the theater's chief director. From 1991 to September 1997 he was artistic director of the theater. On the stage of the Saratov Academic Drama Theater, Alexander Ivanovich had staged over 50 performances.