Zinovy Yakovlevich Korogodsky (Russian: Зиновий Яковлевич Корогодский; July 29, 1926, Tomsk, USSR – May 22, 2004, St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian theater director,[1] Professor, People's Artist of the RSFSR,[2] winner of the Stanislavsky Award, an honorary professor of the Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University.
In 1950 he graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts.[2] He worked in the theaters of Leningrad, Kaluga, Kaliningrad. In 1962-1986 he was the leader of the Leningrad Young People’s Theatre.[3]
In 1986 he was convicted on false charges of sodomy, but the sentence was canceled and the case closed for lack of evidence.[4][5] He was head of the laboratory young playwrights Russia.
In 2001, he was appointed a professor at Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University where he taught until his death in 2004. He received an honorary professor of the University (posthumously).
He was buried in Komarovo, Saint Petersburg.