In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Borisovna and the family name is Volchek.
| Galina Volchek | |
|---|---|
| Галина Волчек | |
 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(s) | 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) |
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. People's Artist of the USSR (1989) and Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation (2017).
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.
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.
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.
On 26 December 2019, Volchek died in Moscow from pneumonia, one week after her 86th birthday.
Personal life
Galina Volchek said: I had two husbands, several romances and one fallacy. 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.
Selected filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Don Quixote | Maritornes | |
| 1965 | The Bridge Is Built | Rimma Sinayskaya | |
| 1966 | Beware of the Car | Tape recorder buyer (uncredited) | |
| 1970 | King Lear | Regan | |
| 1976 | The Little Mermaid | Inn Hostess / Witch | |
| 1977 | About the Little Red Riding Hood | Mother Wolf | TV movie |
| 1979 | Autumn Marathon | Varvara Nikitichna |
Awards and honors
- USSR State Prize (1967)
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1969)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1976)
- People's Artist of the RSFSR (1979)
- People's Artist of the USSR (1989)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (1993)
- Full cavalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"
- Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class (2004)
- Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2004)
- Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation (2017)
References
- ^ "Волчек Галина Борисовна". Кто есть кто в культуре (in Russian). Яндекс.Словари . Archived from the original on 26 May 2024. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
- ^ "Биография. Волчек Галина Борисовна [Biography]" (in Russian). kino-teatr.ru. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
- "Галина Волчек скончалась на 87-м году жизни". IZ. 26 December 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
- ^ "Бабье лето | Женские истории". Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
- Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 15 апреля 1996 г. № 556 «О награждении орденом «За заслуги перед Отечеством» III степени Волчек Г. Б.»
- Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 19 декабря 2003 г. № 1494 «О награждении орденом „За заслуги перед Отечеством“ II степени Волчек Г. Б.»
- Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 17 декабря 2008 г. № 1789 «О награждении орденом «За заслуги перед Отечеством» I степени Волчек Г. Б.»
- Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 21 декабря 2013 г. № 929 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»
- Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 25 апреля 2017 года № 182 «О присвоении звания Героя Труда Российской Федерации
External links
Categories:- 1933 births
- 2019 deaths
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- 21st-century Russian actresses
- 21st-century Russian women politicians
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- Theatre directors from Moscow
- Academicians of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences "Nika"
- Moscow Art Theatre School alumni
- Second convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
- Heroes of Labour of the Russian Federation
- Honored Artists of the RSFSR
- People's Artists of the RSFSR
- People's Artists of the USSR
- Knights of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
- Full Cavaliers of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"
- Recipients of the Golden Mask
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the USSR State Prize
- Artistic directors
- Jewish Russian actors
- Russian drama teachers
- Russian film actresses
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- Russian television actresses
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- Deaths from pulmonary edema
- Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery