Vladivostok State Circus

The first circus performance residents of Vladivostok saw in 1885 from the Lamberger troupe, the circus was then located in the Club ravine on Svetlanskaya Street, today it is the territory of the Sailor Club of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Pacific Fleet. The success of the Vladivostok Circus is also evidenced by the fact that Tsarevich Nikolai, having visited the performance in May 1891, granted 100 rubles to the circus as an award - a very significant amount for those times.

Since then, nine different circuses have opened in Vladivostok in turn, in which both Russian and foreign troupes performed. In 1889, a circus was built in the area of the Officer's Sloboda, located between the stops "Dalzavod" and "Avangard".

In 1901, at the intersection of the streets of the 1st Sea and Korean (the area above the station square), entrepreneur Boroviks built a "Public Access Theater", which burned down ten years later. The same fate befell the “City Circus”, located in the 30s of the last century at the intersection of Ocean Avenue and Ensign Komarov Street. Thirty years, from 1938 to 1968, in the area of the central square of Vladivostok opposite the cinema "Ussuri" in the city square was a summer circus chapito, which worked from early spring to late autumn. And in late 1973, the city finally received the famous “shell”. The first performance, titled "Dream to meet", took place on January 1, 1974.

Since the end of 2017, the circus has been renovated and invites guests!