Lenkom Theatre [Moscow]
Lenkom
Teatro Lenkom
Theatre building in Moscow, Russia
theater in Moskou
Lenkom Theatre
Built 1909 by Illarion Ivanov-Schitz as a merchants' club house with an auditorium for cultural and other events. In World War II used as a hospital, later used as a political club, a party school and, from 1923 as a cinema. Since 1932 used as a youth theatre named Teatr im. Leninskovo Komsomola after the communist Youth organization Lenin Komsomol, shortened Lenkom.