Honored Artist of the RSFSR Galina Ivanovna Yatskina is a native of Makhachkala and comes from the family of a career soldier. She is more familiar to the mass domestic audience by her film works in the titular Soviet films French Lessons, Women and The End of the Lyubavins. In recent years, she changed her professional activity to missionary work, in which she succeeded.
Currently, Galina Yatskina does not go to the theatrical stage and film sets due to the fact that she lives exclusively by faith in God and is actively involved in the missionary activities of Orthodoxy. According to the actress, in her filmography there are no passing film works, although there could have been more. The Honored Artist of the RSFSR is preparing to write a book in the genre of memoirs and helps her son-director to set documentary films.
Biography and career of Galina Ivanovna Yatskina
On June 16, 1944, the future Soviet movie star was born in Makhachkala. At the age of three, Gale was diagnosed with bone tuberculosis, because of which she lay in the hospital for up to seven years, and then moved exclusively on crutches. However, the stubborn girl was not going to give up, but she studied fully at school like all healthy children and even engaged in physical education. It is interesting that Yatskina was able to overcome the pain of broken bones and engage in sports according to an individual program, which resulted in the 2nd sports category in the youth gymnastics program.
In high school, Galina Yatskina enrolled in the stage studio "Young Guard", which allowed her, after receiving a certificate of secondary education, from the first attempt to enter the legendary "Pike" (B. Zakhava's workshop). And then the creative career of the beginning actress began, in which she was part of the troupe of the Stanislavsky Theater for a year. Then there were six years in the Mayakovsky Theater, and, finally, work in the Lenkom.
The second half of the “seventies”, when the disease returned to Galina, became a difficult period in creative activity. Only the operation of G. Ilizarov himself could put the actress on her feet. And she used the time of rehabilitation to finish graduate school of her native university and begin teaching.
Galina Yatskina’s cinematic debut took place with the role of milkmaid Dasha in the film "High Water" (1962). The “Women” tape (1966) also belongs to the student time of the beginning actress, during the stubborn filming of which the young woman was even exposed to a hypertensive crisis. The most active period in the creative life of the film actress can be considered the "seventies" and "eighties." At this time, her filmography was replenished, including film projects "Hello, Doctor!" (1974), "French Lessons" (1978), "People and Dolphins" (1983), "Secret journey of the Emir" (1986).
The latest film works by Yatskina include roles in the films "Blessed" (2008) and "City Lights" (2009).
