Pavel Shulgin and Olga Shtele talked about the Theater within Regional Cultural Framework

On September 28, 2019, St. Petersburg hosted the Festival "Culture 4.0. Economy and Culture". This edition was mainly focused on the Theater as 2019 being declared the Year of Theaters in Russia. The Festival program included as well a scientific conference which discussed economic and socio-cultural aspects of the theater.

The conference heard a joint report devoted to "The Role and Place of the Theater within the Cultural Framework of the Region" presented by Pavel Shulgin, Head of the Centre for Comprehensive Regional Programmes of Sociocultural Development and Olga Shtele, Leading Expert at the same Centre. The report showed the results of the Centre's researches on forming cultural policy in Russian regions and on using local cultural potential.