A. Tozik supported the idea of creating a professional theater in Polotsk

June 21, Glubokoye / Diana Kurilo - BELTA/. Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Tozik supported the idea of establishing a professional drama theater in Polotsk. He announced this today at a meeting of the national organizing committee for the preparation of the Day of Belarusian Written Language in Glubokoye, a BELTA correspondent reports. The issue of Polotsk arose during the preparations for the Day of Written Language in connection with the creation of an exhibition at the Prozorki school in the Glubokoye district dedicated to the founder of Belarusian theater, Ignatiy Buyanitskiy, a native of the village of Prozorki. Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee Alexander Kosinets reported that the regional executive committee is initiating the creation of a theater in Polotsk and naming it after Ignatiy Buyanitskiy. Anatoly Tozik supported this initiative. "Cities like Polotsk and Baranovichi must have their own theaters," he believes. -0-