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Maria Kalinina Winner of the first beauty contest in the 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.

51-year-old Svetlana Bondarchuk

Biography of Bondarchuk Svetlana

In her youth, Svetlana was fond of fencing and received the title of candidate for master of sports. She graduated from the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts, library faculty.

Gomez Inna Aleksandrovna Russian and Soviet actress

A bright beauty with long hair and blue eyes Inna Gomez (this is the name of her first husband) participated in the very first beauty contest in the USSR “Moscow Beauty”, and in the 2000s she was shot for women’s magazines. And today (January 2) the model and actress turned 51.

Taras Guryevich Gaponenko

Taras Guryevich Gaponenko was born on March 5, 1906 in the village of Staraya Zavoron (Smolensk region) into a poor peasant family. Lost his parents early. His mother died when he was 5 years old, his father – when he was 8 years old. They stayed alone with their sister, who was 6 years older than Taras, and they went to the people. In the summer, my sister, a thin girl, labored in the surrounding villages, and Taras grazed pigs, receiving one measure of rye and 5-6 measures of potatoes per season. In winter, interrupted than necessary. One winter Taras had to drive two blind beggars, trampling down half of the country roads of the Elninsky district of the Smolensk province with his little sandals. Lapti Taras wove himself.

Nikolai Petrovich Glushchenko

People’s Artist of the USSR Nikolai Petrovich Glushchenko is a legendary person. He spent most of his life in Berlin and Paris, was friends with famous artists Fernand Leger, Andre Matisse, Pablo Picasso And no one even knew that he, a post-impressionist artist, was also a counterintelligence agent.

Today, Nikolai Petrovich Glushchenko ‘s paintings adorn more than 8 world-famous museums, it is fashionable to collect his works among the Ukrainian establishment, and an active struggle is going on for his legacy.

Mylnikov Andrei Andreevich

Mylnikov Andrei Andreevich (1919-2012) the largest Soviet painter, People’s Artist of the USSR, professor, vice-president of the Russian Academy of Arts.
A. A. Mylnikov was born in Pokrovsk in 1919. In 1946 he graduated from the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He was a student of I. Grabar and inherited the best traditions of Russian art in all the variety of images and pictorial techniques. In 1948, here he entered the graduate school of the Academy of Arts and continued his studies in a creative workshop.

Simon Bagratovich Virsaladze

Biographical data on the life of Simon Virsaladze

Simon Virsaladze the artist who dresses the dance Simon Bagratovich Virsaladze was born in Tiflis on December 31, 1908. Already in childhood, he combined choreography lessons and drawing. Determining his future path in life, Virsaladze gave preference to painting.

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