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Abstract: The article examines the sociocultural experience of the creative interaction of the Leningrad State Theater of Young Spectators with a youth audience and the Ural teachers in 1942–1944. Being evacuated in the city of Berezniki in the Molotov Region (now Perm Territory), the theater experienced a creative upsurge, embodying folklore and fairy-tale heritage, Russian and foreign classics, modern works in its productions, thematic evenings, concerts, and other cultural events that meet the public position of the theater and feelings of people during the war. In this difficult period, the problem of the relationship of the theater as a social institution with the educational structures of the city, the audience, the teacher community, which has not lost its relevance at the present stage, was solved. The subject of analysis is the experience of interaction between the Leningrad Youth Theater and social institutions associated with childhood during the theater evacuation in the Urals. As the main source, we used publications in the newspaper Bereznikovsky Rabochiy (Udarnik) for 1942–1944 from the funds of the MBO Archive of the City of Berezniki in the Perm Territory. The article presents such cultural and educational forms as a joint discussion of performances with spectators, the work of drama groups in schools and professional institutions, the opening of a puppet theater for children of preschool and primary school age, the holding of creative meetings, concerts and talks of stage masters, the preparation of city holidays, organization of conferences with the participation of the parent and teacher community. The pedagogical aspects associated with the expansion of the cultural space of childhood and its protection in a difficult historical period are highlighted. Concrete examples of the education of the patriotic feelings of children and adults by means of the sounding word, acting and theater, capable of integrating universal human values are shown.