Background
LAVROVSKIY, Leonid was born in 1905.
LAVROVSKIY, Leonid was born in 1905.
1922 graduate Petrograd Choreographic College.
1922-1936 with ballet ansemblc, Leningrad State Academy Opera and Ballet Theater (now Kirov Opera and Ballet Theater). 1936-1938 artistic director, ballet ensemble, Maly Opera Theater. 1938-1944 at Leningrad’s Kirov Theater.
From 1944 chief choreographer, Moscow Bolshoy Theater. Artistic director, Moscow Choreograohic College. From ¡950 teacher; 1959 toured United States of America and Canada with ballet ensemble, Bolshoy Theater.
Communist Party member from 1944.