biography
| name: |
Ulanova, Galina Sergeyevna
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pronunciation:
[oolahnova]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1910–98)
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| biography:
| Ballerina, born in St Petersburg, NW Russia. She studied at the Mariinski Theatre School, and made her debut at the Kirov Theatre in St Petersburg in 1928. After 1944 she was prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, with which she had first appeared in 1935. She became the leading ballerina of the Soviet Union, and was four times a Stalin Prize winner. She appeared in several films made by the Moscow State Ballet Company, and in 1957 was awarded the Lenin Prize. She gave her final performance in 1962, and continued to teach at the Bolshoi. |
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