The meeting was opened by the head of the Department of Culture of the Moscow City Executive Committee K. A. Ushakov. A memorial plaque on the house number 5/7 on VI Nemirovich-Danchenko Street in Moscow, where the director lived. Speeches are given by: the chief director of the Vakhtangov Academic Theater, People's Artist of the USSR R.N.Simonov, Director of the State Maly Theater, People's Artist of the USSR M.I. Prudkin, chief director of the Musical Theater named after KS Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemerovich-Danchenko, Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR L. V. Baratov. Among those present is the son of V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko - M. V. Nemirovich-Danchenko.