Tatyana Shmyga, Russian operetta singer and film actress (Hussar Ballad), People's Artist of the USSR, died from vascular disease she was , 82.

Tatyana Ivanovna Shmyga  was a Soviet-born Russian operetta/musical theatre performer. She went on to act in films as well. She was a People's Artist of the USSR (1978)  died from vascular disease she was , 82..^[1]
She graduated from the A.V. Lunacharskii State Institute of Theatrical Arts, where she studied voice under D.B. Beliavskaia and acting under I.M. Tumanov, later becoming a soloist with the Moscow Operetta Theater the same year. She began acting in films in 1962, notably appearing in Eldar Ryazanov's The Hussar Ballad.^[2]

(December 31, 1928 — died February 3, 2011)

Awards

Shmyga remains the only musical theatre actress to date to receive the title of People's Artist of the USSR. She also received the M.I. Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR in 1974, the Order of the Badge of Honor and several other medals.^[3]

Personal life

She was married three times: to television journalist Rudolf Borecki, to musical director Vladimir Kandelaki, and to composer Anatoly Kremer. It is not clear if she had any children.

Death

She died in her native Moscow, aged 82, from vascular disease.

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