Children's puppet theatre is located in the center of Makhachkala, it was founded in 1941 on the basis of the artistic group of puppeteers. The theater building with small turrets its shape resembles a medieval castle. Near Children's puppet theatre located not less famous – Russian, Lak and the Theatre of Opera and ballet.

Since the establishment of the theatre on the stage was supplied a large number of performances of the best samples of Russian, Dagestan and foreign drama. Great success with the children enjoying the performances, inspired by the Russian folk tale "the Gingerbread man", "By magic", etc. in addition, the theatre boasts excellent performances on the works of world classics – Charles Perrault, Leo Tolstoy, Samuel Marshak, and Ernst Hoffmann and many others.

The creative work of the Children's puppet theatre is not confined to the productions. So, since 1975, the theatre is the initiator of the annual week of "Theatre and children", during which held numerous meetings with artists, creative people, poets. In addition, at the initiative of the troupe regularly reading competition among the school students of Makhachkala and Kaspiysk, festival of children's theatre studios and more. The theatre presents Dagestan performing arts on many famous Russian and foreign festivals.