Valentina Telegina
Born(1915-02-23)February 23, 1915
DiedOctober 4, 1979(1979-10-04) (aged 64)
OccupationActress
Years active1934—1978

Valentina Petrovna Telegina (Russian: Валенти́на Петро́вна Теле́гина; 1915 — 1979) was a Soviet and Russian actress.

Biography

Telegina was born on February 23, 1915, in Novocherkassk, capital of Don Cossacks (now the Rostov Oblast).

In 1937, she graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Performing Arts, workshop of Sergei Gerasimov. Since 1937 the actress of Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre, in 1940-1941 of the Baltic Fleet Theatre. In the cinema since 1934. She had her first big role as Motya Kotenkova in Sergei Gerasimov's film Komsomolsk.[1]

After the war she moved to Moscow, working at the Gorky Film Studio from 1946.[2]

She aimed to embody the character of the Russian woman in all its diversity.

Valentina Petrovna Telegina died on October 4, 1979. She was buried in Moscow at the Mitinskoe Cemetery.[3]

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Awards

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