- TURY.CLUB
- Tourist Objects
- Abkhazia
- Sukhumi
- Abkhaz State Drama Theater named after Samson Chanba
The theater is housed in a beautiful building that is an example of urban planning art from the early 20th century. The building was built in 1912 and housed a small 30-seat Grand Hotel and a 670-seat theater. They belonged to a local merchant of the 1st guild, Joachim Aloisi. The hotel housed a restaurant, a garage with rental cars, an Olympia cinema, a casino and two shops. Since 1921, the theater at the Grand Hotel was renamed the first State Theater of Abkhazia. In 1942, both buildings - the hotel and the theater - burned down, but in 1952 they were restored. Architect Chkhikvadze greatly changed the complex of ancient buildings. He combined the Aloisi Theater, the Grand Hotel and the Olympia cinema, built in the Art Nouveau style, into a large building in the Stalinist Empire style. Today, the theater's auditorium seats 700, the seats are radio-equipped, and performances are translated into Russian. At the entrance to the building there is a bust of the founder of Abkhaz drama, the famous writer and public figure of Abkhazia Samson Chanba. The theater square is very beautiful, decorated with a fountain with mythical griffins, from whose mouths streams of water flow.
