Children's puppet theater is located in the center of Makhachkala, it was founded in 1941 on the basis of an artistic group of puppeteers. The theater building with small turrets its shape resembles a medieval castle. Not far from the Children's puppet theater located no less famous - Russian, Lak, and Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Since the establishment of the theater on its stage were supplied a large number of performances - the best examples of Russian, Dagestan and foreign drama. The great success with the children enjoy the performances based on Russian folk tales - "The Gingerbread Man," "wave of the wand" and others. In addition, the theater boasts excellent performances of the works of the world classics - Charles Perrault, Leo Tolstoy, Samuel Marshak, Ernst Hoffmann and many others.

The creative work of children's puppet theater is not limited productions. So, since 1975, the theater is the initiator of the annual week of "Theatre and Children", which was held during the numerous meetings with the artistic personalities, creative people, poets. In addition, at the initiative of the troupe regularly recitation competition among pupils of Makhachkala and Kaspiysk, festival of children's theater studios, and more. The theater is the Dagestani theater on many well-known Russian and foreign festivals.