Olga Lepeshinskaya (dancer)

Olga Lepeshinskaya (dancer)

Soviet ballerina (1916–2008)

Died aged 92VirgoRussian Empire

Biography

Olga Vasilyevna Lepeshinskaya (Russian: Ольга Васильевна Лепешинская; 28 September [O.S. 15 September] 1916 – 20 December 2008) was a Soviet ballerina. She was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1951.

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Career highlights

Employers / organisations

  • Russian Institute of Theatre Arts

Awards & honours (21)

  • Stalin Prize
  • Order of Lenin
  • Order of the October Revolution
  • Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
  • Order of the Badge of Honour
  • People's Artist of the USSR
  • Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class
  • Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour
  • Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
  • Medal "Veteran of Labour"
  • Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
  • Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
  • People's Artist of the RSFSR
  • Honored Artist of the RSFSR
  • Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
  • Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
  • Order of the Flag of the People's Republic of Hungary
  • Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Gratitude
  • State Stalin Prize, 1st degree
  • Stalin Prize, 2nd degree

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