Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova (Corporate Name)
- Kirov Ballet Company
- Leningradskiĭ gos. akadem. teatr opery i baleta im. S.M. Kirova
- Leningradskiĭ teatr opery i baleta akademicheskiĭ im S.M. Kirova
- Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre
- Gosudarstvennyĭ ordena Lenina akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova
- Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ ordena Lenina akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova
- Russian S.F.S.R. Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova
- Russian S.F.S.R. Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre
- Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre in Leningrad
- Leningradskiĭ gos. teatr opery i baleta im. S.M. Kirova
- Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ teatr opery i baleta
- Leningrad State Opera and Ballet
- Leningrad "S.M. Kirov" State Opera and Ballet Theatre
- Kirov Theatre
- Earlier heading: Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta im. A.V. Lunacharskogo
- Later heading: Mariinskiĭ teatr (1991- )
Data from Armand Hammer Productions for Backstage at the Kirov [MP] 1982 (Kirov Ballet Company; Leningrad)
Bol. sov. ėnt︠s︡ikl., 3rd ed., 1973: v. 14, p. 324 (Leningradskiĭ teatr opery i baleta akademicheskiĭ im. S.M. Kirova)
Petrov, A. P. Petr I [SR] 1980: labels (Khor i orkestr Leningradskogo gos. akadem. teatra opery i baleta im. S.M. Kirova) synopsis (Khor i orkestr Leningradskogo gosudarstvennogo akademicheskogo teatra opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova; Chorus and Orchestra of the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre, Leningrad [in rom.])
Muzyk. ėnt︠s︡ikl., 1973-1982: v. 3, col. 247 (Gosudarstvennyĭ ordena Lenina akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova)
Muzyk. zhiznʹ SSSR, 1970: p. 21, etc. (Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ ordena Lenina akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova; named in honor of Kirov since 1935; awarded the Order of Lenin in 1939)
Mussorgsky, M.P. Khovanshchina [SR] 1978?: labels (Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre in Leningrad) program notes ( ... Leningradskogo gos. teatra opery i baleta im. S.M. Kirova [in Cyrillic])
Borʹba zimy i vesny, 195-?: labels (Khor Leningradskogo gosudarstvennogo teatra opery i baleta) container (Leningrad State Opera and Ballet Theatre Chorus)
Tishchenko, B.I. Simfonii︠a︡ no 3, 1970?: label (Leningrad "S.M. Kirov" State Opera and Ballet Theatre)
New Grove dict. of opera (Mariinsky; theatre in St Petersburg, built in 1860; known as the State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet from 1917 and as the Kirov Theatre from 1935; reverted to the name Mariinsky in 1991)
Asafʹev, B. Lebedinoe ozero, 1934: t.p. (Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta im. A.V. Lunacharskogo); Coppélia, c1994: title frame (Maryinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg)