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Galina Borisovna (Berovna) Volchek (Russian: Гали́на Бори́совна Во́лчек; 19 December 1933 – 26 December 2019) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress, theater director and pedagogue.[1][2] People's Artist of the USSR (1989) and Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation (2017).

Galina Volchek
Volchek in 2013
Born	Galina Berovna Volchek (1933-12-19)19 December 1933 Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Died	26 December 2019(2019-12-26) (aged 86) Moscow, Russia
Occupation	Actress, theater director, pedagogue
Years active	1953–2019
Awards	USSR State Prize People's Artist of the USSR Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (full cavalier)

Biography

Galina Volchek was a daughter of the cameraman and director Boris (Ber) Volchek. After finishing the Moscow Art Theatre School (1955, Karev course) she co-founded the Sovremennik Theatre, together with Igor Kvasha, Oleg Tabakov, Oleg Yefremov and Yevgeny Yevstigneyev. Since 1972 she was the chief director of the theater, and since 1989 its artistic director. Volchek directed over thirty productions. Among them were Russian and world classics, works of contemporary domestic and foreign authors.[1][2]

She was repeatedly invited to productions in theaters in Germany, Finland, Ireland, the US, Hungary, Poland and other countries. She was engaged many times in theater pedagogy activities abroad.[2]

Volchek was elected a deputy into the State Duma in 1995, where she became a member of the Committee on Culture. In 1999, Volchek left the parliament.[1][2]

On 26 December 2019, Volchek died in Moscow from pneumonia, one week after her 86th birthday.[3]

Personal life

Galina Volchek said: I had two husbands, several romances and one fallacy.[4] She was married twice:

• First husband: Yevgeny Yevstigneyev. The marriage lasted for 9 years, after she initiated divorce proceedings.
  • The son Denis Yevstigneyev (born 1961), filmmaker.
• Second husband: a doctor of technical sciences, professor of Moscow State University of Civil Engineering Mark Abelev, winner of the State Prize of the Soviet Union. Also divorced.[4]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1957	Don Quixote	Maritornes
1963	Greshnyy angel	Afrodita
1966	The Bridge Is Built	Young Girl
1966	Children of Don Quixote
1966	Beware of the Car	Customer
1968	Parviyat kurier	Tyotya Nyusa
1969	Svoy
1970	King Lear	Regan
1970	Moya sudba
1976	Klop 75 ili Mayakovskiy smeyotsya	madam Renesans / aktrisa-khalturshchitsa
1976	The Little Mermaid	Inn Hostess - Witch
1977	About the Little Red Riding Hood	Mother Wolf	TV movie
1979	Autumn Marathon	Varvara Nikitichna
1983	Unikum
1985	Tevye the Dairyman	Golda	TV Mini-Series

Honors and awards

• USSR State Prize (1967)[1][2]
• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1969)
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1979)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1989)[1][2]
• Full cavalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"[5][6][7][8]
• Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation (2017)[9]

References

External links

• Galina Volchek at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Galina Borissowna Woltschek

Galina Borissowna Woltschek (russisch Галина Борисовна Волчек, wiss. Transliteration Galina Borisovna Volček; * 19. Dezember 1933 in Moskau; † 26. Dezember 2019 ebenda) war eine russische Theater- und Filmschauspielerin und Theaterregisseurin. Von 1972 an bis zu ihrem Tod war sie künstlerische Leiterin des Sowremennik-Theaters in Moskau.

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- [en] Galina Volchek

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[ru] Волчек, Галина Борисовна

Гали́на Бори́совна (Бéровна) Во́лчек (19 декабря 1933, Москва — 26 декабря 2019, там же) — советская и российская актриса театра и кино, театральный режиссёр, педагог, художественный руководитель Московского театра «Современник» (1989—2019). Герой Труда Российской Федерации (2017), народная артистка СССР (1989)[5], лауреат Государственной премии СССР (1967) и премии Президента РФ в области литературы и искусства (2002). Полный кавалер ордена «За заслуги перед Отечеством».

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