Premiere of the play "The Block" at the Sovremennik Theatre

USSR. Moscow. Actor Mikhail Vasilyevich Zhigalov, who read the prologue, writer Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov, actors Valentin Iosifovich Gaft, who played Boston, and Alyosha Zakharko, who played Kendzhash (from left to right) after the premiere of the play "The Block" directed by Galina Borisovna Volchek at the Moscow Sovremennik Theatre. The play was staged in a stage version of the novel of the same name by Ch. T. Aitmatov. Viktor Budan/TASS