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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Iya Savvina, Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR, died she was 75.

Iya Sergeyevna Savvina was a Soviet film actress who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1990 died she was 75..

( 2 March 1936 – 27 August 2011) 

Savvina was not a professionally trained actress. She graduated from the Department of Journalism of the Moscow State University and has appeared in 30 films following her star turn as Anna Sergeyevna in Iosif Kheifets's The Lady with the Dog (1960). Since 1977, she had served in Moscow Art Theatre. During her career she received many awards including the Crystal Turandot Award and State Prizes of USSR and Russian SFSR.
She was also a notable memoirist and cinema scholar who wrote about her colleagues Faina Ranevskaya, Mikhail Ulyanov, Lyubov Orlova and others.


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