Category Archive: Soviet People

Nikolai Karachentsov

Actor Nikolai Karachentsov

Nikolai Karachentsov worked for almost 40 years at Lenkom (now the Moscow State Theater Lenkom Mark Zakharov). World fame brought him the role of Count Rezanov in the rock opera Juno and Avos. Films with the participation of Karachentsov were popular among domestic viewers: “The Elder Son”, “The Adventures of Electronics”, “The Man from the Capuchin Boulevard”. And the actor also learned to play the guitar with Vladimir Vysotsky and played tennis with Boris Yeltsin.

Yuri Petrovich Kugach

Yuri Petrovich Kugach was born in 1917 in Suzdal.

In 1936 he graduated from the Moscow Fine Art School in memory of 1905. He studied under N. P. Krymov and K. F. Morozov. In 1942 he graduated from the Moscow State Art Institute, in the same place in 1945 postgraduate studies with S. V. Gerasimov, N. K. Maksimov, I. E. Grabar.

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.

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.

Ilmira Shamsutdinova Miss USSR

All-Union beauty contests in the Soviet Union began to be held in 1989. In history, there were only 3 girls who bore the title “Miss USSR”, the last of which was 15-year-old Ilmira Shamsutdinova from the Saratov region.

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.

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.

Soviet Art

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