Galina Borisovna (Berovna) Volchek (; 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 Notes1957 Don Quixote Maritornes 1965 The Bridge Is Built Rimma Sinayskaya 1966 Beware of the Car Tape recorder buyer (uncredited) 1970 King Lear Regan1976 The Little Mermaid Inn Hostess / Witch 1977 About the Little Red Riding Hood Mother Wolf TV movie1979 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"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» Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class (2004) Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2004) Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation (2017)Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 25 апреля 2017 года № 182 «О присвоении звания Героя Труда Российской Федерации
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