By creating a theater where many artists have found their home for the whole life, stage director Viktor Panov opened the way to art to the audience who wanted to see not always smooth, but free action. The Youth Theater, organized in 1975, walked a long path from banned performances in its native Arkhangelsk to participating at the Avignon Festival and getting Russia’s main theater prize “Gol-den Mask”. In 1990 Viktor Panov launched the International Festival of Street Theatres, which still gathers companies from all over the world in the city near the White Sea. The festival was included in the UNESCO cultural development program. Each of these steps is an aspiration to rise above reality, to combine fiction and reality, to create the world where everything is art and life is a miracle.