Svetlana Efimovna Pronina

Background

Svetlana Efimovna Pronina was born on October 26, 1939 in Moscow. She was the daughter of Smirnov Efim Ilich and Smirnova Nadezhda Aleksandrovna.

Education

In 1968, Svetlana Efimovna entered Moscow State Art and Cultural University, the department of general stage management, which she successfully graduated in 1973.

Career

Svetlana Pronina started her career in 1957. During 1959-1961 worked as an actress of the Orlov Drama Theater named after I. S. Turgenev. She was an art director in the young Pioneer camp "Artek".

In the next four years, she was working as a singing teacher in regular schools in Moscow and the Moscow region. Further Svetlana Efimovna consistently served as choragus of the steelworks rolling mill named after F. Dzerzhinsky in Odessa, 1965-1966, art director of community center in the village of Chervonoarmejskoe, Odessa region, art director of community center in Lunga and Chimishliya, Moldavian SSR, 1967-1969.

After the university Svetlana Efimovna worked as an art director in the holiday hotel "Sosny" of the Department of Affairs of the USSR Cabinet Council, 1973-1976, art director of specialized school number 49 in the town of Zhukovskij, Moscow region, 1976-1979 and specialized school number 58 in Moscow, 1979-1980. From 1982 to 1985, Svetlana headed the cultural center at the specialized school number 58 in Moscow, from 1985 to 1989, headed the cultural center at the specialized school number 205.

In 1990, Svetlana Efimovna was appointed director of the Center for Aesthetic Education for Children and Young People. On November 5, 1996, the center was awarded the status of the Moscow Children's Academy of Folk Art "Russia". Svetlana Efimovna continues to work as a director.

She is a permanent main director of gala concerts, which conclude the annual international competition-festival "Christmas holidays" in the central public concert hall "Russia".

Svetlana Pronina is the author of a number of publications in the newspapers "Moskovskij Komsomolets" and "Teacher's Newspaper", devoted to various aspects of the work of out-of-school institutions and institutions of preschool education. She regularly travels abroad to give lectures on innovative methods of teaching, speaks at international conferences and symposia.

Achievements

• In 1979, Svetlana Efimovna was appointed one of the leading directors of the program "World Universiade", and in 1980, she was part of the director's group of the cultural program of 1980 Summer Olympics.
  
  In 1971, in the town of Luhovicy, Svetlana Efimovna put forward the idea of holding a Town Day, which has become traditional in Moscow and the region. She wrote the first script and was a director. In the same place, she also embodied another idea – the constant creative and interrelated connection "theater – village". In 1973, Svetlana Efimovna performed the production of "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" based on the eponymously-named book by B. Vasilyev.
  
  Among her projects and programs, there are charity children's matinee in the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, holidays of the national calendar in the schools of Moscow, City Days for Muscovites in the memorial estate Kolomenskoe, in Perovskij Park, concerts in the children's hospital named after Filatov, etc.
  
  She is laureate of three All-Union festivals of amateur art.

Membership

• National Fund of UNESCO

Connections

Father:

Smirnov Efim Il'ich

Mother:

Smirnova Nadezhda Aleksandrovna

Spouse:

Pronin Vladimir Viktorovich

Daughter:

Ajnetdinova Oksana Aleksandrovna

Daughter:

Efimovich Irina Aleksandrovna