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Svetlana Savelova
Svetlana Ivanovna Savyolova (russian: Светлана Ивановна Савёлова, 7 January 1942 – 30 January 1999) was a Soviet Russian film and stage actress. Savyolova starred in seven films and then acted on stage. For her look Savyolova was sometimes called "the Russian Brigitte Bardot". Early life Savyolova was born in the city of Simferopol, then part of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic which was in the grip of World War II at the time. Having finished school, Savyolova initially planned a medical career. She started to work in a Sevastopol drugstore. In her student years, Savyolova was briefly married to film director Gennadiy Baysak, but the marriage fell apart. Films Savyolova was discovered by film director Yakov Segel, who was searching for an actress in his film '' Farewell, Doves''. Having a headache, Segel visited a drugstore in Sevastopol where Savyolova was working. Segel decided it was Savyolova he was searching for and gave her the ...
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Simferopol
Simferopol () is the second-largest city in the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula. The city, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, and is considered the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. However, it is under the ''de facto'' control of Russia, which Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexed Crimea in 2014 and regards Simferopol as the capital of the Republic of Crimea. Simferopol is an important political, economic and transport hub of the peninsula, and serves as the administrative centre of both Simferopol Municipality and the surrounding Simferopol District. After the 1784 Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Empire, annexation of the Crimean Khanate by the Russian Empire, the Russian empress decreed the foundation of the city with the name Simferopol on the location of the Crimean Tatars, Crimean Tatar town of Aqmescit ("White Mosque"). The population was Etymologies The name Simferopol ( uk, Сімферо́ ...
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Natalya Seleznyova
Natalya Igorevna Seleznyova (russian: Ната́лья И́горевна Селезнёва; born 19 June 1945) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. Biography She first took the stage at the age of six, participating in the Red Army Theatre plays. Her notable cinema work includes roles in films directed by Leonid Gaidai, like ''Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures'' and '' Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future''. In 1966 she graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute (course of Boris Zakhava) and became an actress of Moscow Academic Theatre of Satire. In 1968, on the set of film "'' Caliph-Stork''" met the actor Vladimir Andreyev, whom she married. In the 1970s she became famous in the USSR as Mrs. Katarina, one of the main characters in ''" The 13 Chairs Pub''" TV series. In 2014, Seleznyova became an assistant to the Children's Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation (children's ombudsman). Awards *Honored Artist of the ...
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1942 Births
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus and Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar become Roman Consuls. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 ...
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Soviet Stage Actresses
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Saint Petersburg, Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kyiv, Kiev (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, Uzbek SSR), Almaty, Alma-Ata (Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the wo ...
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Soviet Film Actresses
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government that ...
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Mark Zakharov
Mark Anatolyevich Zakharov (russian: Марк Анатольевич Захаров; 13 October 1933 – 28 September 2019) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film director, screenwriter and pedagogue best known for his fantasy parable movies. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1991. Zakharov served as the artistic director at the Lenkom Theatre from 1973 till his death. He gathered a "dream team" of actors and reestablished Lenkom as one of the leading Soviet theatres.History of the theater
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Vakhtangov Theatre
Yevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov (also spelled Evgeny or Eugene; russian: Евге́ний Багратио́нович Вахта́нгов; 13 February 1883 – 29 May 1922) was a Russian-Armenian actor and theatre director who founded the Vakhtangov Theatre. He was a friend and mentor of Michael Chekhov.Martin BanhamThe Cambridge guide to theatre Cambridge University Press, 1995, p. 1157:"''Armenian born, Vakhtangov studied law at Moscow University before enrolling at A. I. Adashev’s drama school, where he was taught by, among others, Leopold Sulerzhitsky''." He is known for his distinctive style of theatre, his most notable production being ''Princess Turandot'' in 1922. Early life and education Vakhtangov was born to an Armenian father and a Russian mother in Vladikavkaz, Northern Ossetia. He was educated at Moscow State University for a short time before joining the Moscow Art Theatre in 1911. Career Vakhtangov rose in the ranks at the Moscow Art Theatre, and by 1920 ...
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Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute
The Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute (russian: Театральный институт имени Бориса Щукина) is a Russian drama college in Moscow, formed in 1914 as part of the Vakhtangov Theatre. In 2002 it was granted the Academy status. History The history of the Shchukin Institute (or Shchuka, The Pike, as it is informally known) goes back to November 1913, when a group of Moscow art students formed their own studio and invited actor and director Evgeny Vakhtangov to become their leader. October 23, 1914, when the latter held his first class with the group (then called the Mansurova School, after the street it was standing on), is celebrated as the Vakhtangov Academy's official birthday. In the spring of 1917 the Studio was named the Moscow Evgeny Vakhtangov Drama School, in 1920 it became the Moscow Art Theatre’s Third Studio and in 1926 (after the death of Vakhtangov in 1922) it became part of the newly formed Vakhtangov Theatre, with Boris Zakhava at the h ...
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Lyudmila Gladunko
Ludmila, Ludmilla, or Lyudmila (Cyrillic: Людмила, ''Lyudmila'') may refer to: People * Ludmila (given name) a Slavic female given name (including a list of people with the name) * Ludmila da Silva (born 1994), Brazilian footballer, commonly known as Ludmila * Ludmilla (singer), Brazilian singer and songwriter Ludmila Oliveira da Silva (born 1995) * Anna Ludmilla, American ballerina born Jean Marie Kaley (1903–1990) Arts and literature * a title character of ''Ruslan and Ludmila'', a poem by Alexandr Pushkin * a title character of ''Ruslan and Lyudmila'' (opera), by Mikhail Glinka * the title character of ''Ludmila's Broken English'', a 2006 book by D.B.C. Pierre * the title character of ''Saint Ludmila'' (oratorio), by Antonín Dvořák Places * Ludmilla, Northern Territory, Australia, a suburb of the city of Darwin * 675 Ludmilla, an asteroid Other uses * Ludmila, nickname of DR Class 130 family The DR 130 family of locomotives comprises the DR Class 130 (''DB ...
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Seven Old Men And A Girl
''Seven Old Men and a Girl'' (russian: Семь стариков и одна девушка, Sem starikov i odna devushka) is a 1968 Soviet comedy film directed by Yevgeny Karelov. Plot Elena Velichko — a young graduate of the sports institute, is sent to work as a coach in a sports club. She is full of bright hopes. However, instead of promising athletes, she is given a "group of health" - six not very young men, who are neither healthy nor complaisant. Elena tries in every possible way to get rid of her charges. She gives them some ridiculously light, sometimes overwhelming burdens, screams and is verbally rude, she tries to get herself fired, but this proves to be difficult: according to Soviet legislation, a young specialist can only be dismissed for a very serious offense. Soon, a seventh student, Volodya Tyupin, joins the group of six "old men". He likes Elena and he wants her affection. Volodya in every possible way tries to help the girl realize her plan: to the best of ...
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