Culture

The city has several dozen libraries including the V.G. Belinsky Scientific Library, the largest public library in Sverdlovsk region.

Ekaterinburg is famous for its theaters among which are some very popular theater companies: the Ekaterinburg Academic Ballet and Opera House, the Sverdlovsk Academic Theater of Musical Comedy (legendary company that is very popular in Russia and in the Commonwealth of Independent States countries), the Ekaterinburg Academic Drama Theater, the Ekaterinburg Theater for Young Spectators and the popular chamber theater “Volkhonka”.

Ekaterinburg is the center of the so called "New Drama" — a movement of contemporary Russian playwrights: Nikolay Kolyada, Vasily Sigarev, Konstantin Kostenko, Presnyakov brothers, Oleg Bogayev. Ekaterinburg is often called the capital of contemporary dance for a number of famous contemporary dance companies residing in the city: “Kipling”, “Provincial Dances”, and “Tantstrest” with a special department of contemporary dance at the Ekaterinburg University of Humanities.