The first amateur theater of European style appeared in Buryatia in the early XX century, when first plays in Buryat language were written. In 1929 in Verkhneudinsk the house of national art with theater and music studios was established, and two years later it was reorganized into a College of Arts. In 1932 with participation of first graduates Buryat professional theater was opened, the current Buryat Academic Drama Theatre.