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Valentina Titova

Valentina Titova

Valentina Titova

Valentina Titova is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. She was born on February 6, 1942 in Kaliningrad, Moscow region. In her youth, Valentina debuted at the Palace of Culture, then worked in Sverdlovsk Youth Theater, and then became a drama theater actress.
From 1970 to 1992 she was the actress in the studio theater in Moscow.
During her acting career Titova has played more than 50 roles. Her most famous roles she played in the movies: Blizzard (1964), Shield and Sword (1968), Dangerous Corner (1972), Days of Tobin (1976), Petrovka 38 (1979), Carnival (1981), The Testament of Professor Dowell (1984).
Among her recent works are roles in Yevgeny Matveyev’s melodrama Love Russian Style, Alexander Hwang’s crime film Dying Is Easy, TV series Another Life by Elena Raiskaya, Martiros Fanosyan’s comedy Unexpected Joy.
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Inna Gomes

Inna Gomes

Inna Gomes

Inna Gomes is a Russian actress, model and philanthropist. She is one of the twenty most famous Russian models, best Russian model of November 2001 according to the Model Cast agency.
Beautiful girl was born on January 2, 1970 in Barakovo, Ryazan region. Her maiden name is Churkina. Inna’s mother was the twelfth child in the family and her father was the sixth child. In her childhood the girl was fond of tourism and sport.
By the way, Inna Churkina appeared in the film Dangerous Nonsense in 1983. This small role was the first step to a career of an actress and a model. The authors of The Guest from the Future noticed cute girl and invited her to star in their film.
Later, in 1988, Inna took part in a beauty contest Beauty of Moscow. For the Soviet Union, it was the first beauty contest in history. The winner was Muscovite Masha Kalinina and Inna took the third place.
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Albina Dzhanabaeva, Russian singer

Albina Dzhanabaeva

Albina Dzhanabaeva, Russian singer

Albina Dzhanabaeva is a Russian singer, ex-member of the Russian-Ukrainian female pop group Nu Virgos (2004-2013), actress and TV presenter.
Beautiful girl was born on April 9, 1979 in Volgograd, Russia. In her childhood she studied at music school, where she learned to play the piano, and sang in the school choir. Pretty singer has a younger sister Ekaterina, who works as a hairdresser and brother Boris, who is a chef.
17-year-old girl entered the Gnessin State Musical College. During her studies, Albina starred in commercials and movies, participated in various theatrical productions.
By the way, in 1999, Albina played the role of Snow White in a Korean production Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, where she sang in Korean.
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Maria Shukshina

Maria Shukshina

Maria Shukshina

Maria Shukshina is a Russian actress and TV presenter, Honored Artist of Russia (2008).
She was born on May 27, 1967 in Moscow. Beautiful girl’s parents are writer, director and actor Vasily Shukshin and actress Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina. Her younger sister, former actress Olga Shukshina (born on July 29, 1968) works in the church. In addition, she has an elder sister Anastasia Voronina-Francisco (born in 1960).
At the age of one and a half Maria starred in the short story Bratka (1969). In 1972 Shukshina and her sister Olga played Rastorguev daughters in the movie Pechki-lavochki. Two years later Maria played the role of Masha in the film The Birds Over The City (directed by S. Nikonenko, 1974).
Wise mother once said: “If you’re lucky, you will marry the film director. Then he will give you roles. And if not, then you will remain unemployed.” And after these words Maria decided to choose another, more stable profession. She graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages.
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Natalia Sokolova, Playboy model

Natalia Sokolova

Natalia Sokolova – beautiful Russian girl


Natalia Sokolova is a Russian model and actress. She was chosen as Playboys Playmate of the Month for April, 1999 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos. Beautiful girl was born in 1976. In the early 1990s, young Natasha moved from her native Moscow to the United States of America. There she worked in the Baltimore restaurant belonging to a businessman from the Soviet Union, Igor Gorsky. However, the girl was eager for a different career. At one of the castings she could attract the attention of an agent who worked directly for Hugh Hefner.
Sokolova became Playboy girl of the month in April 1999, thereby becoming one of the few Russians who received such honor.
Pretty girl graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park.
In addition to her modelling career she starred in small roles in TV series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1996-2003), Swordfish (2001), Role of a Lifetime (2002), Boat Trip (2002), Sea Adventure (2003).
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Sokolova Natalia – beautiful Playboy model


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Lyudmila Chursina

Lyudmila Chursina

Lyudmila Chursina


Lyudmila Chursina is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People’s Artist of the USSR (1981).
Lyuda Chursina was born on July 20, 1941 in Stalinabad (now Dushanbe) on the way to evacuation. Her home town is Velikie Luki, Pskov region. According to Lyudmila Alekseyevna, she did not plan to become an actress and wanted to enter the aviation institute. However, her friend, who dreamed of becoming an actress, invited Lyudmila to go with her to Moscow.
So, in 1959 they graduated from school and went to Moscow to enter the institute. Unexpectedly Chursina was admitted to three theater universities: Cinematography, GITIS and Shchukin Theater School. In 1963 she graduated from the Shchukin Theater School.
Chursina’s film debut took place in 1961 in the film When the Trees Were Big, in which she played together with Yuri Nikulin and Leonid Kuravlev.
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Olesya Rulin, Russian American actress

Olesya Rulin

Olesya Rulin, Russian American actress

Olesya Rulin is an American actress of Russian origin, best known for her role of Kelsi Nielsen in the film High School Musical.
Olesya Rulinkova (her real name) was born on March 17, 1986 in Moscow, USSR. She spent her childhood in a small town Likhoslavl, where her parents were engaged in the manufacture of hats. As a child she was fascinated by ballet.
In the early 1990s, her father emigrated from Russia to the United States. Two years later, when Olesya was eight years old, she together with her mother and brother moved to Texas. Later the family moved to Utah. When the girl was 12, she entered Model Search America modeling agency.
Beautiful Olesya studied at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. Later Rulin graduated from West Jordan High School in 2005.
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