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Vera Alexeyevna Dorofeeva was a candidate of sociological sciences, associate professor, organizer, educator, sociologist, former deputy director of the Leningrad State Choreographic School named after A.Ya. Vaganova (1987-2004), and former rector of the A.Ya. Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (2004). In 1970, she graduated from the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute named after A.I. Herzen, specializing in «pedagogue-defectologist.» Throughout her career, she was involved in organizational and creative work with youth. From 1976 to 1986, she worked at the Leningrad Palace of Youth, where she curated sections of youth creative unions such as cinematographers, composers, writers of the All-Russian Theatre Society, and participated in concert performances in remote areas such as BAM, Surgut, and the Far North. She played a key role in organizing and conducting cultural events such as St. Petersburg Culture Days in Finland, Poland, East Germany, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, as well as International Festivals of Creative Youth in St. Petersburg. From 1987, she served as the deputy director of the Leningrad Academic Choreographic School named after A.Ya. Vaganova. Together with the school’s director, L.N. Nadirov, she transformed it into a higher educational institution—the A.Ya. Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. From 1992, she was assistant rector of the Academy, becoming its rector in 2004. During the 1990s, with the support of the St. Petersburg Administration, she facilitated the relocation of creative workers from dormitories located in the courtyard buildings of the Academy to individual apartments, subsequently reallocating the premises for the educational needs of the Academy. She coordinated the Academy’s activities with ballet schools and choreographic schools in the former CIS countries. Dorofeeva intensified the activities of the International Department of the Academy of Russian Ballet, which she led from 1989 to 2004, focusing on organizing internships for foreign students at the Academy and sending leading pedagogues and specialists abroad. Under her leadership, the Academy’s students successfully toured Germany (1988, 1989), France (1989), the Netherlands (1989), the USA (1990), Ireland (1991), Greece (1992), Japan (1992, 1994, 1998, 2004), Italy (1995, 2003, 2005), England (2004), and other countries. She collaborated on cultural projects such as the Tchaikovsky Festival (1990) and the anniversary of N.M. Dudinskaya (1992) at the Bolshoi Theatre with the first President of the Academy, K.M. Sergeyev, and rector L.N. Nadirov. She oversaw the development and implementation of intensive Russian language courses for foreign students at the Academy using modern technologies. From 2004, she co-chaired the Educational and Methodological Association of Higher Educational Institutions of the Russian Federation for Education in Choreographic Arts and was a member of the Coordination Council for Education in Culture and Arts. In 2007, she introduced an innovative system for training ballet artists with higher education (bachelor’s level) at the Academy. In 2013 she moved to work at the Mikhailovsky Theatre.

My Teachers of general education disciplines of the Leningrad State Choreographic School named after A.Ya. Vaganova (1970-1980s)