Mikhail Shvydkoy

Mikhail Shvydkoy
Михаил Швыдкой
Shvydkoy in 2023
Special Presidential Envoy on International Cultural Cooperation
Assumed office
31 July 2008
PresidentDmitry Medvedev
Vladimir Putin
Minister of Culture
In office
8 February 2000  24 February 2004
Prime MinisterMikhail Kasyanov
Viktor Khristenko (acting)
Preceded byVladimir Yegorov
Succeeded byAleksandr Sokolov
Personal details
Born
Mikhail Yefimovich Shvydkoy

(1948-09-05) September 5, 1948
Kant, Kyrgyz SSR, Soviet Union
Alma materRussian Institute of Theatre Arts
ProfessionTheatre critic, artistic director
AwardsState Prize of the Russian Federation, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", Order of Alexander Nevsky, Order of Friendship, Order of the Badge of Honour, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Order of Merit of Ukraine, Legion of Honour, Ordre national du Mérite, Dostlug Order

Mikhail Yefimovich Shvydkoy (Russian: Михаи́л Ефи́мович Швыдко́й; born September 5, 1948) is a Soviet and Russian theater critic, drama, social and political activist. Laureate of the State Prize of Russia. The artistic director of the Moscow theater musical, supervisor of the Faculty of the Graduate School of cultural policy and management in the humanitarian sphere, Moscow State University.

Russian Minister of Culture February 8, 2000 – March 9, 2004. Chairman of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography (June 30, 2004 – June 7, 2008).