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| Native name | Ольга Всеволодовна Ивинская |
| Born | June 16, 1912 Tambov, Russian Empire |
| Died | September 8, 1995 (aged 83) Moscow, Russia |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | Russian |
| Nationality | Russian |
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| Partner | Boris Pasternak |
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Olga Vsevolodovna Ivinskaya (Russian: Ольга Всеволодовна Ивинская; June 16, 1912, in Tambov – September 8, 1995, in Moscow) was a Soviet poet and writer. She is best-known as friend and lover of Nobel Prize-winning writer Boris Pasternak during the last 13 years of his life and the inspiration for the character of Lara in his novel Doctor Zhivago (1957).