Zinovy Yakovlevich Korogodsky (Russian: Зиновий Яковлевич Корогодский; July 29, 1926, Tomsk, USSR – May 22, 2004, St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian theater director,^[1] Professor, People's Artist of the RSFSR,^[2] winner of the Stanislavsky Award, an honorary professor of the Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University.

In 1950 he graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts.^[2] He worked in the theaters of Leningrad, Kaluga, Kaliningrad. In 1962-1986 he was the leader of the Leningrad Young People’s Theatre.^[3]

In 1986 he was convicted on false charges of sodomy, but the sentence was canceled and the case closed for lack of evidence.^[4][5] He was head of the laboratory young playwrights Russia.

In 2001, he was appointed a professor at Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University where he taught until his death in 2004. He received an honorary professor of the University (posthumously).

He was buried in Komarovo, Saint Petersburg.

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• Зиновий Корогодский (1926-2004). Золотое зерно театра