State drama theatre of the city of Vorkuta was created in 1943. The theatre has a unique history of its formation, because it was created in the camp, intended for political prisoners during the great Patriotic war, the year before, when Vorkuta became known as the city. Previously Vorkuta was only a village, most of whom were prisoners and convicts. In this place at the end of the 1930s, there was the construction of one of the largest camps of the Gulag called "Vorkuta".

Among the camp prisoners were quite a large number of professional musicians, singers, actors, writers and artists. One of the most respected people Mordvinov was Boris Abramovich – the Honoured artist of the Republic of Komi, as well as former chief Director of the Bolshoi theater in Moscow and Professor of the Moscow Conservatory. Mordvinov was the Director of the famous Opera "Life of Tsar" or better known as "Ivan Susanin". Originally this man, like all other prisoners belonging to the creative and scientific workers, worked as a Junior porter at the pier, small work in a large warehouse and duty.

Soon the largest part of the professional theatre workers motivated him to create a unique theatre camp. It is known that in the Great Patriotic war began, so all the forces were sent to the front, therefore creating their own theatre left by the wayside. But still the interest in this undertaking proved themselves civilian, and families of the guards – so the idea of the theatre came to life again, because the chief of Workoutsthat - Maltsev Mikhail Mitrofanovich personally manifested itself in the formation of professional musical drama. Once the permission to create theatre was given, he immediately began work on the incarnation. As a place for rehearsals and productions was selected by the local club or the House of culture of miners.

October 1, 1943, the long-awaited opening of Vorkuta theatre by staging the operetta under the name "Silva" author Imre Kalman. In the future, the operetta "survived" more than a hundred productions than forever left a mark in the life of the theatre. Established theatre became a second life for the prisoners, because even in detention, creative people have been able to prove itself, that has brought a lot of joy to viewers. Drama was a unique phenomenon, because the scene came together not only the prisoners themselves, but also their guards.

As for the first performances, among them we can mention: the operetta "the circus Princess" and "Maritsa", the Opera "Faust", "the Barber of Seville", "Eugene Onegin" tragedy "Mary Stuart" by Schiller, F., A. Ostrovsky's plays: "Forest", "bride", "plum", "guilty Without guilt" and many other well-known works.

The pioneers of the theatre became artists: Rutkowski K., Mikhailova E. N. Glebova.And., Saleska A. J., and bass singer B. Deyneka – soloist of the all-Union radio, baritone Rutkowski T. I. – soloist of the Kirov theatre. Among professional actors worth mentioning Boris Kozin, Valery Golovin, Ishchenko V. M., concertmaster of Stoyanka A. K., choreographer Dubin-Belov A. M., choreographer Zhiltsov G., pianist Dobromyslova E., cellist Press A., composer and conductor of Macosko Vladimir

In the year of the great Patriotic war, the theatre was visited by tokarski Valentine – the musical star of the Moscow satire theatre, which later was taken prisoner. Once in the prison camp, she met her future husband, A. J. Kapler

True inspiration Vorkuta drama theatre was B. A. Mordvinov, which artistic Director and principal stage Director. Mordvinov was released in 1946, but the influx in the camp theatre only increased. During the great Patriotic war, the audience was presented more than six hundred concerts and performances each year, in 1948, the theater company had more than 150 participants.

In 1950, the year the GULAG was disbanded, and the theatre became really dramatic. Currently this is a professional drama theatre, whose repertoire is contemporary authors and world drama classics.