Background
OGNENKO-AVANESOV, Karl was born on January 6, 1882.
OGNENKO-AVANESOV, Karl was born on January 6, 1882.
From 1900 actor, then stage director at Ukraine and Russian provincial theaters in Rostov, Lugansk, Sukhumi, Baku, Tiflis, Simferopol’, Kerch, Smolensk, Kaluga, Chernigov, Vilnius, Khar’kov and Poltava, et cetera 1916 moved to Uzbek; founded, directed and acted at soldiers’ theater in Tashkent. Then worked for Z.A. Malinovskaya’s company.
1918 co-founder, Soviet Theater, Tashkent. From 1920 head, Theater Department, Turkestani People's Commissariat of Education. Head, Centr Theaters Board.
Deputy head, Show Enterprises Board. 1936 director, Uzbek State Variety Theater. 1937-1941 director and stagecraft instructor, Tashkent Theatrical CollegeRoles: Bogdan and Mazepa in Staritskiy’s “Bogdan Khmel’nitskiy” and “Mazepa”.
The Deputy in Kotlyarevskiy’s “Natalka-Poltavka”. Gnat in Shevchenko’s “Nazar Stodolya”. Yaichnitsa in Zhenit'ba (The Wedding).
Nekhlyudov in Voskreseniye (Resurrection), after Tolstoy. Satin and Tcterev in Gorky's Meshchane (Philistines). The King in Lunacharskiy’s Korolevskiy bradobrey (The Trimming of the King’s Beard).
Dreissiger in Hauptmann’s “The Weavers”. Gaspard in Planquette’s operetta ‘The Bells of Comeville”. Agamemnon in Offenbach’s “Louisiana Belle Helene”, et cetera
Productions: Naydyonov's Deti Vanyushina (Vanyushin’s Children) (1919). Goryacheye serdtse (Warm Heart) (1919). Kovarstvo i lyubov’ (Guile and Love) (1920), et cetera
