Svetlana Afanasyevna Svetlichnaya (russian: link=no, Светлана Афанасьевна Светличная; born 15 May 1940) is a Soviet and Russian actress most famous for her role in ''

The Diamond Arm ''The Diamond Arm'' (russian: Бриллиантовая рука ''Brilliantovaya ruka'') is a Soviet crime comedy film made by Mosfilm and first released in 1969. The film was directed by director Leonid Gaidai and starred several famous Soviet ...

'' (1968).

Biography

She was born in the city of Leninakan (now

Gyumri Gyumri ( hy, Գյումրի, ) is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country. By the end of the 19th century, when the city w ...

), Armenian SSR, Soviet Union on 15 May 1940 to Afanasy Mikhailovich Svetlichnyi and Maria Feodorovna Zolotareva. During

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the family lived in the town of Kolomak in the

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, then moved to the city

Okhtyrka Okhtyrka ( uk, Охти́рка, ) is a city located in the Sumy Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It is administratively incorporated as a city of oblast significance. The city has also served as the administrative center of the smaller Okhtyrka Ra ...

in the

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. Her father was in the military, and the family followed her father to his place of service. They lived in Ukraine and Austria, and at the age of 10 Svetlana lived on the

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, in the city of

Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast Sovetsk (russian: Сове́тск; german: Tilsit; Old Prussian: ''Tilzi''; lt, Tilžė; pl, Tylża) is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the south bank of the Neman River which forms the border with Lithuania. Geography Sov ...

. When Svetlana graduated from high school, her mother sent her to Moscow by a train. There Svetlana went to the

Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (russian: Всероссийский государственный институт кинематографии имени С. А. Герасимова, meaning ''All-Russian State Institute of Cinemat ...

(VGIK). At VGIK, she studied under Mikhail Romm, and his combined directing-acting course. Under this course, she studied Valery Spout,

Zhanna Prokhorenko Zhanneta "Zhanna" Trofimovna Prokhorenko (russian: Жаннета "Жанна" Трофимовна Прохоренко, uk, Жаннета "Жанна" Трохимівна Прохоренко; 11 May 1940 – 1 August 2011) was a Soviet and ...

, Galina Polskikh,

Andron Konchalovsky Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (russian: link=no, Андрей Сергеевич Михалков-Кончаловский; born 20 August 1937) is a Russian filmmaker. He has worked in Soviet, Hollywood, and contemporary Russian ...

, and Andrei Smirnov. On stage, she played a student Elisabetta Procter in ''Salem's process,'' Katyusha Maslova in ''Resurrection'', and Maryanka in ''Cossacks''. After her role of Anna Sergeyevna in ''

'', her phrase ''It's not my fault! He came by himself!'' became one of the most popular in the Soviet Union.

Selected films

*''

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'' (1965) *''

'' (1968) *''

The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers ''The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers'' (russian: Новые приключения Неуловимых, translit. ''Novye prikluchenya Neulovimykh'') is a 1968 Soviet action film, a sequel of ''The Elusive Avengers'', directed by E ...

'' (1968) *''

Seventeen Moments of Spring ''Seventeen Moments of Spring'' (russian: Семнадцать мгновений весны, Semnadtsat' mgnoveniy vesny) is a 1973 Soviet twelve-part television series, directed by Tatyana Lioznova and based on the novel of the same title by Yu ...

'' (1973) elevision series*''

Father Sergius "Father Sergius" (russian: Отец Сергий, Otets Sergiy) is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy between 1890 and 1898 and first published (posthumously) in 1911.Julian Connolly in Charles A. Moser (ed.), ''The Cambridge History of Russian ...

'' (1978) *''

Anna Pavlova Anna Pavlovna Pavlova ( , rus, Анна Павловна Павлова ), born Anna Matveyevna Pavlova ( rus, Анна Матвеевна Павлова; – 23 January 1931), was a Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th ...

'' (1983) *''

Day of Wrath ''Day of Wrath'' ( da, Vredens dag) is a 1943 Danish drama film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and starring Lisbeth Movin, Thorkild Roose and Preben Lerdorff Rye. It is an adaptation of the 1909 play '' Anne Pedersdotter'' by Hans Wiers-Jens ...

'' (1985) *''House on a Rock'' (1994) *'' Goddess: How I fell in Love'' (2004) *''

The Girl and Death ''The Girl and Death'' ( nl, Het Meisje en de Dood) is a 2012 Dutch film directed by Jos Stelling. Plot ''The Girl and Death'' is a love story of Nicolai and Elise (a courtesan). Their love is obstructed by materialism, wealth, and death. The fil ...

'' (2012)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Svetlichnaya, Svetlana 1940 births Living people People from Gyumri Soviet film actresses Russian film actresses A Just Russia politicians 21st-century Russian politicians Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni