Valentin Pluchek

{{Short description|Soviet and Russian theater director and actor}}

Valentin Nikolayevich Pluchek ({{langx|ru|Валенти́н Никола́евич Плу́чек}}; real name Isaak Nokhimovich Gintsburg, {{Langx|ru|Исаа́к Нохи́мович Ги́нцбург}}; 4 September 1909 – 17 August 2002) was a Soviet and Russian theater director and actor. He is known as a stage director of the Physical Culture Day parade in Moscow during the Stalinist epoch.Edelman, R. [https://books.google.com/books?id=SKw1XTpiqMIC&dq=%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BA+%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BB&pg=PA112 Spartak Moscow: A History of the People's Team in the Workers' State]. page 100 The Physical Culture Day took place each summer at central squares of major Soviet cities. Peter Brook's cousin.[https://www.svoboda.org/a/1989241.html Русский англичанин Питер Брук]

Pluchek worked with the director Vsevolod Meyerhold until he was arrested and shot in 1940, and then worked with the playwright Aleksei Arbuzov. In 1950, he joined the "often-daring" Moscow Satire Theatre in 1950, and rose to chief director in 1957.{{cite news|title=Valentin Pluchek|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/valentin-pluchek-1-617996|accessdate=17 November 2015|work=The Scotsman|date=20 August 2002}}