The square is named after the three theatres situated there — Bolshoi Theatre, Maly Theatre, and Russian Youth Theatre.
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In Leningrad on the Theatre Square a monument was unveiled to great Russian musician and composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908).