Music and Time Annotation << Back Taras Shevchenko National Opera and Ballet Theatre during the evacuation in Ufa (1941–1942) G.A. Baymukhametova One of the most poorly studied pages in the history of the Taras Shevchenko Kiev Opera and Ballet theater is the activity of the theater in Ufa from 1941 to 1942. In this article, an attempt is made to reconstruct the life of the Kiev theater in the first years of the Great Patriotic War. On the basis of archival documents, not only creative, but also financial, material problems, as well as staffing issues, first productions, and so on, are revealed. Keywords: Great Patriotic War, evacuation, Kiev theater, Bashkiria, Ufa, Opera singing. Pp. 03-06.