The star of "Hussar ballad" actress Larisa Golubkina has died

People's Artist of the RSFSR, Soviet and Russian actress Larisa Golubkina died at the age of 86. This was announced by TV presenter Andrei Malakhov in his telegram channel.

"Half an hour ago, the news came that my friend, the star of the Hussar Ballad, the magnificent actress Larisa Golubkina, had passed away," the showman wrote.

Larisa Golubkina was born on March 9, 1940 in Moscow. She graduated from the conducting and choral department of the Moscow Music and Pedagogical College, then entered GITIS, the department of musical comedy. During her studies, she began acting in films. The role in Eldar Ryazanov's film "The Hussar Ballad" became the debut and hallmark of the actress for many years, during her career she starred in more than two dozen films, including the films "Give a plaintive book" and "Three in a boat, not counting the dog." After graduating from GITIS in 1964, she became an actress of the Central Academic Theater of the Soviet Army (now the Central Academic Theater of the Russian Army). As a guest artist, she worked at the Pushkin Moscow Drama Theater. She participated in many performances, convincingly embodying the images of lyrical and characteristic heroines.

In addition, since the 1960s Golubkina began to perform as a pop singer. She sang songs by Soviet composers, works from the repertoire of Claudia Shulzhenko and Russian romances to the accompaniment of Leonid Utesov and Anatoly Kroll orchestras, toured in the 1970s and 1980s with her husband Andrei Mironov and concertmaster Levon Oganezov. In 1991, the first solo concert was held in Moscow at the State Concert Hall Russia, accompanied by the orchestra of folk instruments named after N. Osipov.

The Asteroid 3940 Larion (1993) was named after Larisa Golubkina, she was awarded two orders of the Badge of Honor, the Order of Friendship, the Order of M.V. Lomonosov, as well as the Order of the Kemerovo region "Key of Friendship" for her outstanding contribution to the development of culture and art in Russia and Kuzbass.