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- Birth nameLyudmila Markovna Gurchenko
- Lyudmila Gurchenko was a popular actress in the Soviet Union during the 1950s - 1980s, she was best known for Carnival in Moscow (1956), Five Evenings (1979) and Sibiriada (1979).
She was born Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko on 12 November 1935, in Kharkov, Ukrainian Soviet Republic of the USSR. She studied acting at the VGIK (Soviet State Institute for CInema), graduating from the class of Sergey Gerasimov in 1956. That same year she shot to fame in the Soviet Union, aftr delivering a stellar performance as singer Lenochka Krylova in Carnival in Moscow (1956), by director Eldar Ryazanov.
Gurchenko's film partners were such Russian stars, as Oleg Borisov, Sergei Shakurov, Aleksandr Abdulov, Oleg Basilashvili, Mikhail Boyarskiy, Igor Ilyinsky, Yuriy Nikulin, Armen Jigarhanian, Oleg Tabakov, Stanislav Lubshin, Andrey Mironov and Aleksandr Mikhaylov among others.
Lyudmila Gurchenko was married five times and had one daughter with her first husband, Boris Andronikashvili. She died of a pulmonary failure on 30 March 2011, at age 75, and was laid to rest in Moscow, Russia.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Shelokhonov
- SpousesSergei Senin(1993 - March 30, 2011) (her death)Iosif Kobzon(1967 - 1970) (divorced)Aleksandr Fadeyev(1962 - 1964) (divorced)Boris Andronikashvili(1958 - 1960) (divorced, 1 child)Vasili Ordynsky(1954 - 1955) (divorced)
- Had one daughter, Maria Korolyova (nee Andronikashvilli; June 5, 1959-November 8, 2017), with her ex-second husband Boris Andronikashvili. Mariya died from heart failure at the age 58, 6 years after her mother died.
- Had two grandchildren, Mark Korolyov (September 22, 1982-December 14, 1998, died from drug overdose at the age 16) and Elena Korolyova (b. November 17, 1983), and one great-granddaughter Taisiya (b. February 11, 2008).
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