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Lyubov Orlova

Lyubov Orlova Armenian Soviet actress

Lyubov Orlova Armenian Soviet actress

Lyubov Orlova studied music since childhood, then studied choreography and singing, took acting lessons. In the films, she herself sang, danced and performed acrobatic stunts. In the cinema and on stage, the actress played only a few dozen roles, but was very popular with Soviet audiences – the girls of the Soviet Union even dressed and combed their hair like Orlov.

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Svetlana Kryuchkova – Soviet actress

Svetlana Kryuchkova in the film cannot be

Svetlana Kryuchkova in the film cannot be

Kryuchkova was born on June 22, 1950 in Chisinau (Moldova). Her father was from Belarus (he served as an investigator in the MGB, had the rank of major), her mother was a pomorie from Arkhangelsk. According to the actress, as a child, no one cared about her. Therefore, she learned to make decisions herself.

“I did not dream of being an actress, but I felt that I must have some special, unusual destiny …”
After graduating from school in 1967, Kryuchkova went to Moscow to enroll in a philologist. However, she happened to be near the Shchepkin Theater School and decided to tempt fate. However, the competition there was huge (400 people per seat), and although Kryuchkova successfully completed three rounds, she could not enter.

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Natasha Koroleva Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian pop singer

Natasha Koroleva

Natasha Koroleva

Natasha Koroleva biography

In 1990, the singer toured the United States with the children’s rock opera Peace Child. In the same year, Natalia moved to Moscow, where she began her creative collaboration with the composer Igor Nikolaev: the very first song of Nikolaev “Yellow Tulips” brought her real fame and success. It was Nikolaev who suggested that Natasha take the name of the Queen.

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Tatyana Mikhalkova

Tatyana Mikhalkova

Tatyana Mikhalkova

Biography of Tatyana Mikhalkova

Tatyana Evgenievna Mikhalkova, the wife of the famous director Nikita Sergeevich, is a recognized public figure. She heads the Russian Silhouette Charitable Foundation, the organization of which was to support national fashion designers. Tatyana Mikhalkova is engaged in the preparation and implementation of a large-scale project “New Russia – XXI century”, issues of providing young fashion designers with the opportunity to interns in the legendary foreign high fashion houses – “Yves Saint Laurent”, “Lecoane-Eman”, as well as in domestic enterprises working in the field fashion industry. She has repeatedly emphasized that fashion is her profession and life.

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Kezha Maria Vladimirovna

Kezha Maria Vladimirovna

Kezha Maria Vladimirovna

Youth of Kezha Maria

Masha was born into a family of radio engineers in 1973. Place of birth – Ryazan, but when the girl was 5 years old, her parents moved with her to the BSSR. Here Masha grew up, studied, turned into a beautiful swan. True, in her youth, the future Miss USSR was ashamed of her tall stature and thinness.

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Maria Kalinina Winner of the first beauty contest in the USSR

Miss USSR

Miss USSR Maria Kalinina

Maria Kalinina Winner of the first beauty contest in the USSR Moscow Beauty

Born September 14, 1971.

The victory in the Moscow Beauty-88 competition came as a shock for Maria Kalinina. Masha was not Lolita, before the Kalinina competition she had already worked as a model. But after the victory, another life began …

Kalinina bathed in the rays of glory and condemnation, but there is no money. Unprofitable contract with Burda Moden and Soviet magazine covers without payment. The money was in the West, where the beauty became part of the beloved perestroika. And the proposals were not long in coming.

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