Personnel

The total number of the company is 157; administrative staff - 16; technical staff - 24; choral group - 62; dance group - 37; orchestra - 18.

Founder

Department of Culture of Krasnodar Region

Achievements

The Kuban Cossack Chorus has numerous high awards and victories in many art contests both in Russia and abroad. It is twice the laureate of the All-Russia Contests of state Russian folk choruses, the laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine, the laureate of a number of international folk festivals. In 1989 the Chorus was awarded the Order of Peoples' Friendship and in 1993 - an honorary title of "academic".

The foreign press say that representing the Russian culture in the world the Chorus is on a par with St.Petersburg symphony orchestra and the Bolshoi.

Leadership

Art director and chief conductor of the Kuban Cossack Chorus - People's Artist of Russia, Ukraine, the Republic of Adygueya and the Republic of Abkhazia, laureate of the State Prize of Russia, composer Victor Zakharchenko.

Director of the Chorus - Honoured Cultural Worker of Russia, Ukraine and the Republic of Adygueya Anatoly Arefyev

Chief ballet-master – Valery Anuchin

Orchestra leader - Honoured Artist of Ukraine Boris Kachur

Plans

In 2011 the Chorus is planning to celebrate its bicentennial and make a major tour around Russia with a new program.