KURGINYAN Sergey Yervandovich (b. 1949) graduated from the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute with a degree in geophysics in 1972. In 1974 – 1980, he was a researcher at the Institute of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, in 1980 – 1986, he was a Senior Researcher at the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute. He has been a theater director since his student years.