The circus, as a phenomenon, in Voronezh appeared long before had built the first stationary circus building. In the nineteenth century, itinerant artists regularly gave performances in this provincial city, sometimes used tent, sometimes the view was right under the open sky.
Winter wooden building was built on the money and the efforts of the famous Italian entrepreneur Maximiliano Truzzi in 1882. In Voronezh he arrived already-known Russian actor, to move to the hinterland with the goal to open his own circus, he worked in the Moscow circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, which is worth noting not much older than Voronezh. His numbers Icarian games, pantomime, naezdnikov - amazed the Moscow audience, and rightly deserved a standing ovation.
The truzzi circus was a great success from the public, in the hall often had no free space. He was one of the largest circuses of the time, so it often toured with circus artists from other cities to speak, in modern words, it was prestigious. In he owned the circus started his career as a clown in a famous circus artist Anatoly Leonidovich Durov. In Voronezh he tries to train animals, first among which were a sheep, a pig and a rooster.
The wooden building is not eternal, and already in 1905 was built new circus. Its owner, Popov I., had little to do with circus, he was the owner of the baths, but other than that he was a good businessman, with amazing benefits at different times, the priests handed over the building of this most famous of circus figures, as A. Ciniselli, C. Truzzi, A. Lapiado, N. Malugin, Miles, S. Danshin.
The civil war did not pass unnoticed to Popov, in the 1920s, the circus was destroyed, for many years the circus has lost a permanent shelter. The performances took place in the garden day, where once stood the building is a summer circus. There was another permanent circus, however, the story of his short - in 1929 it was erected, and during the great Patriotic war it was destroyed.
The Foundation of the modern circus of Voronezh was founded in 1972, the building was constructed to 2400 seats.
Voronezh circus is not only a beautiful and convenient structure, it is still a huge number of prominent artists who began their careers in this city. Among them are such names as Ivan Zolototrubov - balancer on the transition ladder, Zuev and Tertychnyi - power acrobats, Leonid Shaposhnikov - solo-gymnast, Paul Drygin and Alex Kozyavin - touristy and others.
In July 2008, on the second floor of Voronezh circus was a monument to Anatoly Leonidovich Durov. The author of the sculpture - Georgian sculptor Vano Arsenije. The appearance of this monument was a joint project of the national communities of Voronezh: Georgian, Greek, Armenian, Ukrainian, German and Kurdish.
Voronezh state circus today is a branch of the Russian state circus company, regularly to the city for a tour come a variety of circus troupes from all over Russia.