Tatyana Shmyga

Shmyga in 2006

Tatyana Ivanovna Shmyga (Russian: Татьяна Ивановна Шмыга; born 31 December 1928 – died 3 February 2011) was a Soviet and Russian operetta/musical theatre performer. She went on to act in films as well. She was a People's Artist of the USSR (1978).[1]

Moscow-born Shmyga graduated from the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts, where she studied voice under Dora Borisovna Beliavskaia and acting under Joseph Mikhailovich 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]

  1. ^ Lenta.ru "Tatyana Shmyga dies", lenta.ru, 3 February 2011; accessed 2 June 2017.(in Russian)
  2. ^ Profile, encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com; accessed 2 June 2017.