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Lyudmila Gurchenko

Actress/Singer
12 November 1935 to 29 March 2011

A star of the post-Stalin Soviet era, Gurchenko came to prominence in musical comedy Carnival Night (1956) and matured into an enduringly popular character actress. Her other films include Twenty Days Without War (1976), Siberiade (1979), Five Evenings (1979), Her Beauty Secrets (1983) and A Railway Station For Two (1983).

- Read Lyudmila Gurchenko's Guardian obituary.