✨ Nikulin Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard

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Moscow's oldest circus, operating since 1880: a classic program with acrobats, clowns and trained animals.

The circus was founded by the equestrian Albert Salamonsky; the first show took place on 12 October 1880.
Salamonsky came up with the idea of children's circus shows and Christmas trees.
The clown Karandash performed here from 1936.
Yuri Nikulin got into the second intake of the clown studio opened at the circus in 1946; he ran the circus from 1983, and it has borne his name since 1996.
In 1985 the old building was taken down; the new one was built by the Finnish company Polar, preserving the look of the facade and the auditorium.
The auditorium seats 2,000, the dome is 25 meters high and the ring is 13 meters in diameter.
Since 2000 a monument to Nikulin by Rukavishnikov has stood at the entrance, with the convertible from "Kidnapping, Caucasian Style".

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