People’s Artist of the USSR Tatyana Shmyga has died at the age of 82. The sad news was reported by Moscow Operetta Theater, where she had worked since 1953.
      
      Tatyana Shmyga is the only operetta actress in Russia to have got the title of the People’s Artist of the USSR. In 1962 the singer appeared on screen for the first time – it was in Eldar Ryazanov’s musical film Hussar Ballad.
      
      Altogether Tatyana Shmyga has performed over 60 roles on stage and in films. Among them is Chanita in the operetta Chanita’s Kiss and Gloria Rozetti in the stage production Circus Lights On, Lyubasha in Sevastopol Waltz and Violetta in The Violet of Montmartre.
      
      Source: itar-tass.com
      
Author: Vera Ivanova