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Alla (female Name)
Alla (russian: А́лла) is a Russian and Ukrainian female given name. The Eastern Orthodox Church usually relates the name with ,Martyr Alla the laywoman in the Crimea on the page: Lives of all saints commemorated on March 26 the widow of a chieftain, ed in King 's times. Since the name is also spread among , there is some speculation that the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Language
Russian (russian: русский язык, russkij jazyk, link=no, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language mainly spoken in Russia. It is the First language, native language of the Russians, and belongs to the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. It is one of four living East Slavic languages, and is also a part of the larger Balto-Slavic languages. Besides Russia itself, Russian is an official language in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, and is used widely as a lingua franca throughout Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and to some extent in the Baltic states. It was the De facto#National languages, ''de facto'' language of the former Soviet Union,1977 Soviet Constitution, Constitution and Fundamental Law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1977: Section II, Chapter 6, Article 36 and continues to be used in public life with varying proficiency in all of the post-Soviet states. Russian has over 258 million total speakers worldwide. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Demidova
Alla Sergeyevna Demidova (russian: link=no, А́лла Серге́евна Деми́дова; born 29 September 1936, Moscow) is a Russian actress internationally acclaimed for the tragic parts in innovative plays staged by Yuri Lyubimov in the Taganka Theatre. She was awarded the USSR State Prize (1977) and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland (twice, 2007, 2001). Biography Alla Demidova was born on 29 September 1936 in Zamoskvorechye, Moscow, and spent her early years at the Osipenko (now Sadovnicheskaya) Street. Her father Sergey Alekseyevich Demidov, an heir to the Russian industrialists' family, was jailed in 1932 in the course of the Great Purge, but soon got acquitted. In 1941 he joined the Red Army as a volunteer and was killed in action 1944, near Warsaw. Alla's mother, Aleksandra Dmitriyevna Demidova (née Kharchenko) was working at the Economy department of the Moscow University (later at its Cybernetics and economic programming section).Rasskazova, TatyanaAlla Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Shekhovtsova
Alla Viktorovna Shekhovtsova (russian: Алла Викторовна Шеховцова; born 2 November 1964 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian figure skating judge and ISU Technical Specialist and a former ISU Ice Dance Technical Committee member; a former ice dancer, the wife of Valentin Piseev who used to be the general director of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia. They have a son, Stanislav (born 1989). Biography Shekhovtsova started skating at the age of 5. Her father was a hockey player. Shekhovtsova first competed as an ice dancer. When she realized that she could never compete at the highest level, she left skating. She graduated from the Ural State University of Economics and later from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (ice choreography faculty), where she studied in the same class with Zhanna Gromova. At the same time she started coaching at the Sverdlovsk figure skating school, where she trained under Igor Ksenofontov. After a year she became a senior coach of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Pugacheva
Alla Borisovna Pugacheva, ) (born 15 April 1949), is а Soviet and Russian musical performer. Her career started in 1965 and continues to this day, even though she has retired from performing. For her "clear mezzo-soprano and a full display of sincere emotions", she enjoys an iconic status across the former Soviet Union as the most successful Soviet performer in terms of record sales and popularity. Pugacheva's repertoire includes over 500 songs in Russian, English, German, French, Kazakh, Hebrew, Finnish, Ukrainian, and her discography has more than 100 records, CDs and DVDs. In addition to Russia and the former Soviet Union, Pugacheva's albums were released in Japan, Korea, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. In total, Pugacheva has sold more than 250 million records. She became a People's Artist of the USSR in 1991, a Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1995, and was decorated as a Chevalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Osipenko
Alla Yevgenyevna Osipenko (Russian:Алла Евгеньевна Осипенко , born 16 June 1932 in Leningrad) is a retired Soviet ballerina. She studied at the Leningrad Choreographic School (now Vaganova Academy) in the class of Agrippina Vaganova. Upon graduation she joined the Kirov Ballet (now the Mariinsky Ballet) in 1950, and was promoted to prima ballerina in 1954. Her repertoire included: Lilac Fairy in '' The Sleeping Beauty'', Odette-Odile in '' Swan Lake'', Gamzatti in ''La Bayadère'', Waltz and Mazurka in '' Chopiniana'', Masha in ''The Nutcracker'', Frigia in '' Spartak'', the Mistress of the Copper Mountain in ''The Stone Flower'' (1957), and Mekhmene-Banu in '' Legend of Love'' (1961). In 1961, while Osipenko was on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, one of her main dance partners, Rudolf Nureyev defected to the west on her 29th birthday. Osipenko, who was not a Communist Party member, was under considerable suspicion by the KGB upon her return to the Sov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Nazimova
Alla Nazimova (Russian: Алла Назимова; born Marem-Ides Leventon, Russian: Марем-Идес Левентон; June 3 Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._May_22.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>O.S._May_22">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html"_;"title="nowiki/>Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._May_22_1879_–_July_13,_1945)_was_a_Russian-American_actress,_director,_producer_and_screenwriter. On_ O.S._May_22">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html"_;"title="nowiki/>Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._May_22_1879_–_July_13,_1945)_was_a_Russian-American_actress,_director,_producer_and_screenwriter. On_Broadway_theatre">Broadway,_she_was_noted_for_her_work_in_the_classic_plays_of_O.S._May_22">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html"_;"title="nowiki/>Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._May_22_1879_–_July_13,_1945)_was_a_Russian-American_actress,_director,_producer_and_screenwriter. On_Broadway_theatre">Broadway,_she_was_noted_for_her_wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Kudryavtseva
Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva (; born 3 November 1987) is a retired Russian tennis player. Kudryavtseva won one singles title and nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as two singles titles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 4 October 2010, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 56. On 8 September 2014, she peaked at No. 15 in the WTA doubles rankings. On 2 November 2021, Kudryavtseva announced on Instagram that she had retired from the sport. Professional career Early career Kudryavtseva debuted on the WTA Tour at the 2004 Kremlin Cup, where she could not succeed beyond the qualifying rounds. In the following season, her best WTA Tour result was reaching the first rounds of the Nordea Nordic Light Open in Stockholm in singles and the Banka Koper Slovenia Open in doubles. Her first major appearance was at the 2006 Australian Open, where she could not win a qualification round. The same result was seen at the other three Grand Slam tourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Kravets
Alla Kravets (Алла Кравець; born 12 January 1973) is a Ukrainian volleyball player. She was part of the Ukraine women's national volleyball team at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She also competed at the 1994 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship and 2001 Women's European Volleyball Championship The 2001 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 22nd edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball The European Volleyball Confederation (french: Confédératio .... On club level she played with Olexandria Bila. Clubs * Olexandria Bila (1994) References External links * * * * http://www.cev.lu/Competition-Area/PlayerDetails.aspx?TeamID=7030&PlayerID=19354&ID=51 * http://www.todor66.com/volleyball/Olympics/Women_1996.html * http://www.todor66.com/volleyball/Europe/Women_2001.html 1973 births Living people Ukrainian women's volleyball players Sportspeople from Zaporizhzhia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Korot
Alla Korot (born November 1, 1970) is a Ukrainian-American actress and dancer best known for her soap opera roles of List of All My Children characters#D, Allie Doyle Martin on ''All My Children'' and List of General Hospital: Night Shift characters#Stacey Sloan, Stacey Sloan on ''General Hospital: Night Shift''. Early life Korot was born in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, to Elena and Alex Korot. Korot and her family immigrated to the United States in 1977, and she subsequently grew up in San Francisco. Before acting, she performed for Ballet Celeste International with her family for six years. After touring, the family settled in California, where Korot won the title of California Miss T.E.E.N. in 1987. One of her very first acting appearances was opposite actor-musician, Scott Grimes in his music video, "I Don't Even Mind" in 1989. Career Film Korot portrayed Angelique in ''Night of the Cyclone'' (1990), Sophia Petrenko in ''Domestic Import'' (2006), and a Russian translator in ''Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Kazanskaya
Alla Alexandrovna Kazanskaya () (15 June 1920 – 25 June 2008) was a Russian stage and film actress. She began her career at the age of 18 at the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. Her most notable film appearance was in the Academy Award-winning drama ''Burnt by the Sun'' (1994). Composer Aram Khachaturian dedicated the ''Waltz'' from Masquerade (Khachaturian), his incidental music to Mikhail Lermontov, Lermontov's ''Masquerade'' to her. By the time of her death at age 88, she was the theatre's oldest working actress. She had received the Crystal Turandot, Russia's foremost theatre award, in 2007. Kazanskaya was the fourth wife of director Boris Barnet, who committed suicide in 1965. Their daughter Olga Barnet (1951–2021) was also an actress. Awards * People's Artist of the RSFSR (1971) References External links Russian-language obituary * 1920 births 2008 deaths Actors from Chișinău Soviet film actresses Soviet stage actresses Russian film actresses Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Ilchun
Alla Ilchun (10 December 1926 – 6 March 1989) was a Chinese-born Kazakh-Russian fashion model. A muse for Christian Dior, who referred to her as "his personal talisman", she was the first prominent Asian woman to model European fashions. Biography Ilchun was born in Harbin, China in 1926. Her father, Kuantkhan Ilchun, was a railway engineer from a wealthy family in Kazakhstan. Her mother, Tamara, was a Russian opera singer and the daughter of a White Army officer. Due to political unrest in Harbin, with the city passing between the Chinese, Japanese, the Ilchun family fled to France. Her father was caught and sent to the Tokyo. As a teenager, Ilchun worked as a dishwasher in a Parisian restaurant. During World War II, she joined the French Resistance. Ilchun attended a model casting in Paris, as a favor to a friend, and was chosen by Christian Dior to work for the fashion house. She became a very successful model, and a muse for Dior, who referred to her as "his personal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Hasanova
Alla Hasanova (born 6 August 1970) is an Azerbaijani volleyball player, who competed for the Women's National Team at the 1994 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Brazil. At the 2005 Women's European Volleyball Championship in Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = " Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map = , map_caption = , capi ... she ended up in fourth place with the national squad, and was named ''Best Server'' of the tournament. Clubs * Emlak Bank Ankara (1994) Individual awards * '' 2005 European Championship "Best Server"'' References FIVB Profile 1970 births Living people Azerbaijani women's volleyball players Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Azerbaijani women {{Azerbaijan-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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