Galina Yatskina, biography, personal life, photos of which will be presented below, is an actress, teacher and director, whose impeccable taste causes envy. She did not star in a single film that was not included in the golden fund of Russian cinema. Among her students are Alexander Gordon, Sergei Makovetsky and Sergei Zhigunov. And low-budget films shot at the Kinokontakt studio have such a high moral component that they receive the approval of not only the management, but also the Orthodox Church. What is known about this amazing woman?
Childhood
Galina Yatskina is originally from Makhachkala, but the future actress spent her childhood in Saratov in the Volga region. Date of birth: 06/16/1944. The family was the most ordinary: mother Zinaida was an elevator operator, father Ivan was a security guard. The girl spent four years of her childhood in bed due to tuberculosis of the right ankle joint. For the rest of your life, the affected leg will remain much thinner than the other; make-up artists in films will have to correct this defect. The first year of study was spent in the hospital, after which little Galya began attending regular school on crutches, trying to be like her peers in everything. Limping, she came to the gymnastics section, impressing the coach with her persistence.
The girl not only attended training, but also competed, receiving a youth rank. She completely abandoned her crutches and ran to classes at the theater club of the Saratov Palace of Pioneers, standing out as a special talent among her peers.
Childhood
At the age of three, little Gala was given a disappointing diagnosis related to bone disease. Before school, the girl practically lived in hospitals and could not fully walk. I went to first grade on crutches, but whenever possible I tried to move independently and not be different from my peers.
As she grew older, Galina began attending the gymnastics section. Even then, one of her legs was thinner than the other and there was a slight limp. But the girl worked hard to strengthen her body and accustom it to stress.
Galya Yatskina - actress from the galaxy of Natalia Sukhostav’s circle members
The circle was headed by a truly unique woman - Natalya Iosifovna Sukhostav, the daughter and wife of those repressed during Stalin's times. From 1944 to 1985, she worked at the Palace of Pioneers, staging performances at the level of the city Youth Theater. An actress by training, once fired from the theater, she had an instinct for talent, preparing the real creative elite of the new generation. More than 150 future famous actors with titles came out of her circle. Among her students are Vladimir Konkin, Oleg Tabakov, Oleg Yankovsky.
She advised the girl to enter the theater school, but not in Saratov, but in Moscow. The father reacted negatively to his daughter’s decision, but seventeen-year-old Yatskina Galina, an actress whose personal life is widely covered in the press, did it her way, showing character. She entered the Shchukin School, where the competition was 400 people per place. During the entrance exams, the teachers didn’t even notice the applicant’s natural defect. Marianna Vertinskaya, Alexander Kalyagin and Nikita Mikhalkov studied with her, to whose level she had to reach.
Biography
The future artist was born in 1944 in Makhachkala, into a military family. Her parents met during the war. When young Ivan, Galina's father, went to the front, he proposed to his beloved Zinaida, Galina's mother. They were only 19 years old. The parents lived together for 50 years, and after the death of his wife, Ivan became a monk.
At the age of 3, Galina survived bone tuberculosis, which confined her to bed for 4 years. She started first grade while in the hospital, and came out hobbling on crutches. The doctors thought that she would remain disabled, but Yatskina did not give up. In high school, she received a junior rank in gymnastics. This is will and diligence!
"Seasons". Source m.kino-teatr.ru
In high school, she began attending the Young Guard theater studio in Saratov.
After school, she went to enroll in Moscow at the Shchukin School. She got in on the first try, and none of the examiners even noticed that the applicant was limping.
After receiving her diploma in 1966, she worked in the theaters named after Stanislavsky (about a year), named after Mayakovsky (6 years), and at the same time she served in the Lenin Komsomol theater.
"Ex-dad, ex-son." Source m.kino-teatr.ru
In 1970, the actress was forced to go back on crutches - the disease made itself felt. But Galina managed to graduate from graduate school and begin teaching in the theater.
Yatskina’s very first film was “Flood,” when the actress was in her first year. She managed to bypass even Lyudmila Gurchenko, who was competing for the main role in the film.
Then came “Women”, “Blow, another blow”, “The unexpected is nearby”.
The film “A Word for Defense” stood out clearly among all, where the main character, out of jealousy, makes an attempt on the life of her husband.
Long hours of filming took a toll on her health, so the actress took a break and returned only in 2000 as a director. Together with their son, they made many good films.
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Film debut
As a freshman, the girl had already played a milkmaid in the film “Flood,” but her real success was brought to her by the role of Alka in the feature film “Women.” Director Pavel Lyubimov set the actors the task of being themselves, so the film turned out to be truly popular. Screenwriter Irina Velembovskaya rewrote the dialogues during filming to make the character closer to each artist playing one or another character. The 1966 film starred the luminaries of Russian cinema: Valentina Vladimirova, Nina Sazonova, Inna Makarova, Nadezhda Fedosova. The role of Ekaterina's son (N. Sazonova), who fell in love with his single mother Alka, was played by Vitaly Solomin, a student at the Shchepkinsky School.
Yatskina Galina, an actress (you can see the photo in this material), who played one of the main roles, made a documentary about the film for the fiftieth anniversary of the film, which at one time became one of the distribution leaders. In it, she tried to find the answer to why the melodrama about furniture factory workers still excites modern viewers.
Filmography of the actress
Among the twenty-three roles of the actress, the most famous are:
- "Hit! Another blow! Victor Sadovsky (1968). The role of the girlfriend of a football player named Sergei, who played a decisive role in the outcome of the football match.
- “Echo of Distant Snows” by Leonid Golovnya (1970). The role of a geologist named Irina.
- “The End of the Lyubavins” by Leonid Golovnya based on the work of Vasily Shukshin (1971). The role of Claudia.
- “A Word for Defense” by Vadim Abrashitov (1977). For her role as a lawyer, Galina Yatskina, an actress whose filmography includes 23 film works, received an award (“Best Actress”).
- “French Lessons” by Evgeny Tashkov based on the work of the same name by Valentin Rasputin, where the actress played the mother of the main character (1978).
- “I’ll Take Your Pain” by Mikhail Ptashuk (1981). The role of Tasya Batrak.
- “Burn” by Gennady Glagolev (1989). The role of Lydia. The film received a festival prize in Germany (1989).
- “Provincial Women” by Boris Kvashnev (1990). The role of Lydia Andreevna.
Galina Yatskina stopped acting in 2009, but since the nineties she rarely agreed to roles, believing that cinema had been replaced by the film industry, and participating in commercial projects was not in her rules.
Leonid Golovnya in the life of an actress
Filming with director Golovnya, the author of one of the sensational films based on V. Zakrutkin’s story “Mother of Man,” the young woman was already married. The first husband is an engineer in the field of space exploration named Vladimir. But the advances of the director, who by that time was also married to the daughter of a military attache, were too persistent. Yatskina Galina, an actress whose personal life interests many, could not resist the onslaught of the talented master of Russian cinema. Both left their former families to unite their destinies. In 1972 they became husband and wife, living together for 4 years. The woman still regrets that she left her first husband, who after her departure became an alcoholic and died early.
The marriage with Leonid Golovnya was not happy. After the birth of her son Vasily in 1972, she again ended up in a hospital bed with a diagnosis of tuberculosis. This was the price to pay for the decision to become a mother. Fortunately, it turned out that the child simply took the bone tissue. The problem was resolved at the clinic of Dr. Ilizarov, whom the actress considers her savior. She will make a film about him, “Doctor of Last Resort.”
When Vasya was 4 years old, Galina Yatskina divorced Golovnya, taking with her only children's things. Only over the years did the grievances subside. The father of Yatskina’s only son, who lives in the United States, occasionally called and congratulated her on the holidays. In 2012, the outstanding director passed away.
Galina Yatskina and Leonid Golovnya
By the time of filming in Leonid Golovnya’s films, Galina Yatskina was already married. Golovnya was also married. However, this did not stop Leonid from starting courtship with the beautiful actress. Galina did not accept signs of attention from Golovnya for a long time, but he was persistent, and she finally gave in.
Subsequently, Galina Ivanovna admitted that she considered her leaving her first husband, engineer Vladimir, to be her sin. Vladimir loved Galina very much and could not bear their breakup. He started drinking, which may have led to his early death.
Having married Leonid Golovnya, Galina Yatskina gave birth to a son, Vasily, in 1972. But the couple’s further family life did not work out. Having lived for four years, Galina and her son left Golovnya, taking with them, in her own words, only a child’s potty... Time has smoothed over the grievances, and today the ex-husband sometimes calls Galina Ivanovna and congratulates her on the holidays...
Teaching activities
During her stay in the hospital, the young woman, walking on crutches, thought about changing her profession. She spent time in the doctor’s office writing her dissertation, enrolling in graduate school at her native Shchukin School. She managed to do everything thanks to the fact that in 1975 she got behind the wheel of a car, which she never parted with again. In 1979, she began teaching, which she spent 17 years doing. Yatskina Galina, actress, today is the only candidate of science who created a new discipline at a theater university. Until 1991, she published courses in parallel with her work on stage and filming.
Mikhail Shirvindt, Sergei Chonishvili, Nikita Dzhigurda studied with her. Few people know that the actress taught an acting school in Afghanistan, at the Afganfilm film studio, during the years of hostilities. She was the first female artist to visit a hot spot and perform for Russian soldiers in military hospitals. Seeing the young crippled guys, the actress was speechless. Behind the scenes, they poured her vodka and advised her to conduct the meeting on a light, positive note, without showing pity for the soldiers, who were expecting something completely different from the meeting. With the money she earned, the woman was able to build a dacha, because she had managed her life in such a way that Galina Yatskina, an actress, could only rely on herself.
Biography and career of Galina Ivanovna Yatskina
On June 16, 1944, the future Soviet film star was born in Makhachkala. At the age of three, Gala was diagnosed with bone tuberculosis, which is why she spent up to seven years in the hospital, and then moved exclusively on crutches. However, the persistent girl was not going to give up, but studied fully at school like all healthy children and even did physical education. Interestingly, Yatskina was able to overcome the pain of broken bones and play 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 “Young Guard” stage studio, which allowed her, after receiving a certificate of secondary education, to enter the legendary “Pike” (B. Zahava’s workshop) on her first try. And then the creative career of the aspiring actress began, in which she was part of the troupe of the Stanislavsky Theater for a year. Then there were six years at the Mayakovsky Theater, and, finally, work at Lenkom.
The second half of the “seventies” became a difficult period in her creative activity, when Galina’s illness returned. Only the operation of G. Ilizarov himself was able to put the actress back on her feet. She used her rehabilitation time to complete her postgraduate studies at her native university and begin teaching.
Galina Yatskina's cinematic debut took place with the role of the milkmaid Dasha in the film “Flood” (1962). The film “Women” (1966) also dates back to the student years of the aspiring actress, during the persistent filming of which the young woman was even susceptible to a hypertensive crisis. The most active period in the creative life of a film actress can be considered the “seventies” and “eighties.” At this time, her filmography was replenished, including the film projects “Hello, Doctor!” (1974), “French Lessons” (1978), “Men and Dolphins” (1983), “The Secret Journey of the Emir” (1986).
Yatskina’s latest film works include roles in the films “Blessed” (2008) and “City Lights” (2009).
Personal life, photo of son
The child, born against the advice of doctors, who believe that the actress’s health would be seriously affected, is today the closest person to Yatskina. After Leonid Golovnya, she will be married twice more. Felix, who worked for the Central Committee of the Komsomol, replaced Vasily’s father, but died early without surviving a heart attack. The last husband was a businessman from Finland named Matti, who produced Nikita Mikhalkov’s film “Urga”. The outstanding director even served as best man at the wedding and toastmaster during the wedding banquet. For five years, the couple traveled all over Scandinavia by car, but the marriage, unfortunately, ended in divorce.
Vasily was a very active child as a child, so his teachers advised him to show him to a psychiatrist. He immediately diagnosed him with schizophrenia. The boy was sent to a hospital, where he did not want to stay. The actress was helped out by her colleague Nikolai Burlyaev. He advised a psychologist, who identified the main reason for the guy’s deviant behavior. He was simply bored in class. And soon the situation was resolved by the fact that Yatskina Galina is an actress. Children of filmmakers are often invited to screen tests for the roles of minors. So Vasily got the main role in the film “People and Dolphins”, where outstanding actors starred: Natalya Fateeva, Vladimir Talashko, Evgeny Leonov-Gladyshev. She was a co-star and her own mother. The young man was fascinated by cinema.
Difficult 90s
In the 90s, insanity and banditry entered the movie screens. The actress was not ready to act in such films. Having created her own studio, Kinokontakt, with her son in 1991, she was looking for ways to make money for film production. To do this, she was engaged in business: she sold Chinese clothes in the markets of Saratov. Having received a truckload of beer for sale, I contacted the scammers and found myself in a difficult situation. The owners of the beer demanded money that she did not have. She asked for a six-month extension, promising to fully compensate for the losses. Surprised by the woman’s courage, the cool guys learned that Galina Yatskina was an actress. Her personal life and her son, who needed help, pushed her to take this step. Businessmen promised to help promote the film studio. Today she makes low-budget films, releasing one film a year.
Despite the difficulties, Yatskina manages to support emerging talents. Together with Karen Shakhnazarov, they provided financial assistance to Tigran Keosayan, who in 1992 filmed his graduation work “Katka and Shiz”, which received a prize at a festival in Yugoslavia. She understood that the money would not be returned, but she considered it necessary to contribute to the development of cinema. Since 2005, the film studio began producing the series “Under the Sun.” Vasily Yatskin, a director, actor, journalist and screenwriter, traveled all over the country with films on Orthodox themes, calling his activities a missionary film lecture. The studio has enormous support not only from the Ministry of Culture, but also from the church. Mother and son were baptized in adulthood, coming to Orthodoxy.
Soviet-Afghan actress Galina Yatskina. Life despite the blows of fate
From an early age, Galina had to fight for herself. Doctors diagnosed the girl with “tuberculosis of the right ankle joint.” An evil fate determined that she would live a short life as a disabled person. She spent her childhood in a hospital, where, exhausted by illness and the confined space of the ward, the little girl dreamed of becoming an actress.
The girl managed to overcome the disease, but she came out into the world as a sick child. In addition, one leg was much thinner than the other. Then Galina signed up for the sports section and, thanks to her perseverance, not only gained strength, but also achieved athletic results.
Then the girl set out on the path to realizing her childhood dream. She enrolled in a drama club, and after graduating from school she went to Moscow and entered the legendary Shchukin Theater School.
An aspiring strong-willed actress with powerful internal energy turned out to be in demand in Soviet cinema. She played her first, and immediately main, role as a first-year student. Dasha in the drama "Flood". Ali performed her most famous role as a naive, pure girl who did not bend under the blows of fate in the film “Women” in her fourth year. This role brought Galina all-Union fame.
In the early 70s, Galina Yatskina was a popular and sought-after actress. But, as often happens with beautiful and talented girls, her personal life did not work out. Guided by patriarchal ideas about marriage, the actress devoted herself to her husband, director Leonid Golovnya, to the detriment of her career. For which she left her first husband. After the breakup, the man started drinking and died early, for which Galina still blames herself. However, life together with Golovnya did not work out. Galina was left alone with a young child in her arms.
The actress has been supporting her family for a long time. Then her trips to Afghanistan to work began. Civilian specialists were paid extra for taking risks. And the risk was far from illusory. The first time she almost died during an attack on the Afghanfilm studio, the second time during an explosion at the airport. Galina Yatskina was the first civilian woman to go to work in Afghanistan. In total she had five business trips.
The actress was in the prime of her creative powers when she began having health problems again. She played one of her best roles in the film “French Lessons,” overcoming pain and coming to filming on crutches. Her third husband died, the only person in her marriage with whom she was happy. The actress began acting less frequently, but found herself in teaching. She taught acting at her native Shchukin School.
Over time, the woman joined the Christian religion. She was baptized at the age of 40 along with her son, who was 14 at that time. At the same time, she continued to remain the secretary of the party organization of the Shchukin school and a Soviet person. A true Soviet person of that time was no longer determined by an ideological component, but by a heightened sense of justice, which Galina Yatskina always possessed in full.
The ugliness that plagued Russian cinema in the 90s caused her complete rejection. Yatskina despised the new commercial cinema and again went against it, plunging headlong into promoting auteur cinema.
These days, Galina Ivanovna owns a small film studio that produces low-budget films on pressing and socially significant topics. She never saw the end of women’s happiness, but her son, director Vasily Yatskin, became a support and associate for his mother.
In an interview, the actress said that she is not ashamed of any of her films. Let's remember them:
Young milkmaid Dasha in the drama “Flood”
Ali's most powerful and famous role in the drama "Women"
Pioneer geologist Irina, main role in the film “Echo of Distant Snows”
Tina in the criminal detective film of the Uzbekfilm studio “The Unexpected is Nearby”
Lawyer Irina Mezhnikova from the drama “A Word for Defense”
Volodya's mother Maria Andreevna in the film adaptation of Valentin Rasputin's story "French Lessons"
Investigator Margarita Pavlovna Chekurova, detective “The Man Who Closed the City”
Path to God
Galina Yatskina, an actress whose photos were often published in the media, has been pursuing faith all her life. Her family was not religious, and the actress herself was a party person. A visit to Syria and a trip to the desert, reminiscent of a painting by I. Kramskoy, made a strong impression on her. While visiting an ancient temple, she heard a voice condemning her for coming to the abode of God unbaptized. Arriving in Moscow, the woman decided to correct this mistake. Together with their son, they ended up in the church on Rizhskaya, where the sacrament of baptism took place. The actress was about forty years old.
Before this, the son tried many directions, finding himself among Hare Krishnas and psychics. His path to the church was influenced by Alla Andreeva, the wife of the poet-philosopher. Daniil Andreev went through repressions during the reign of Stalin, but neither separation nor deprivation could shake her feelings for her husband. She was not afraid to openly declare this at Lubyanka, and after his death she published his poems, worked to perpetuate the memory of her husband and promoted his work at literary evenings. Being blind for the last 8 years of her life, she spoke at the Literary Institute, and many had no idea that in front of them was a blind person.
Inspired by the life of the great woman, Galina Yatskina and her son made the documentary film “Alla and Daniel,” which tells the story of how a believing woman begged her unbelieving husband. The film could not make it onto the wide screen, which predetermined the creation of a cultural and educational lecture hall. Visiting prisons, orphanages, universities, Vasily Yatskin considers his most important audience to be those who are responsible for education: teachers, educators, officers.
Galina Yatskina: life is overcoming, life is victory. How does the actress live today?
“The usual factory girl lived to work...” - this is almost about her, the star of Soviet cinema, who was able to withstand everything that befell her and become stronger.
Difficult childhood
At the age of three, doctors discovered a terrible disease in the girl Galya - bone tuberculosis, and therefore Galya spent the next four years in the hospital. The forecasts were disappointing; doctors said that the girl might never be able to walk.
She left the hospital on crutches and went to school on crutches. She went to physical education, even tried to run, not paying attention to the ridicule of her classmates.
The girl, thanks to hard work, learned to walk without crutches. After some time, Galechka signed up for the gymnastics section and agreed on individual lessons. Hard training gave good results, despite the fact that one of the girl’s legs was thinner than the other, the girl almost stopped limping. Yatskina was even able to fulfill the second-class standard in gymnastics.
At that time, the theater studio “Young Guard” was operating in Saratov, the director of which was Natalya Sukhostav. The studio would now probably be called a “star factory”; among its graduates there were one and a half hundred national and honored artists. It is enough to name such names as: Oleg Tabakov, Vladimir Konkin. Galina came to Natalya Iosifovna when she was in high school. The classes bore fruit, Yatskina easily entered the Shchukin School.
True, upon admission she cheated a little in front of the admissions committee; the girl always stood so that her limping leg was invisible. She got in on the first try.
Yatskina’s film debut took place during her student years; in her first year, she got the role of the milkmaid Dasha in the film “Flood.” In her final year, the actress joined the film crew of the film “Women,” and she was approved for the role at the last moment, when the entire cast had already been approved. The director's assistant noticed her at the school and invited her to take part in the film.
Filming was very difficult for Galina, because she had to study for her diploma at the same time. At the end of filming, the actress fell ill with a hypertensive crisis.
In the 70s, the illness unexpectedly returned and the actress was again forced to stand on crutches. But she continued to work, the directors adjusted the filming schedule to her condition, in the morning, while the pain was tolerable, they filmed long shots, in the evening she filmed while sitting.
After the operation, which was performed by the world-famous surgeon Ilizarov, a master of his craft, Galina stood firmly on her feet again.
The stagnant 80s are over, the turbulent 90s have arrived. Movies stopped being shot, theaters were empty, actors made money as best they could, held corporate events, performed at parties, and some went into business. Yatskina was among them. The actress organized her own company, purchased goods in China, took them through customs, sold them, and “spun” like many others. And how many fell for the bandits. Her car was stolen, she was put on the meter, and she had difficulty in coming to an agreement on paying off her debts. After she was able to pay off her debts, the actress quit the business. Now she deals only with creative projects.
Personal life
Galina Ivanovna herself believes that her personal life was a success, and if something went wrong, then she only blames herself. The actress was married four times.
Our years
Currently, Galina Ivanovna is engaged in educational and missionary activities. She and her son made several documentaries on issues of demography, drug addiction, and terrorism. Headed by Yatskina, it produces cartoons and fairy tales for children.
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Films from the Kinokontakt film studio
Among the films of the film studio there are many works related to the wonderful people the actress met along the path of life. The documentary film “Natalie” (2012) is dedicated to Natalya Sukhostav, who gave many actors a start in a big life. Shown on the Kultura TV channel, it had good reviews. The actress visited Afghanistan five times, which served as the impetus for the creation of a film about a woman at war, “War Has a Woman’s Face.” The film was awarded a diploma for addressing a new topic at the Stalker international festival in 2015.
The sad fate of the film about Kurt Cobain, the 27-year-old leader of the rock group Nirvana, who shot himself at such a young age, “Blessing or Curse.” It was planned to film 4 episodes, but the central channels refused to show the film, because, in their opinion, Orthodox films today are not a format. If the film had been shot in the genre of investigative journalism, it would have been purchased with pleasure, but today 8 years of work have turned out to be unclaimed by TV. The authors are not ready to cut the picture in order to remove material about understanding the problem. This is what Galina Yatskina, actress, is all about. The personal drama of each person is viewed through the prism of moral dialogue with the audience, whom art is designed to make better.
She claims that she dreams of peace and wants to retire, but this, given her active position, is difficult to believe.
Alka from the film “Women”, this role made her famous
In high school, Yatskina decided that she definitely had to become an artist and went to enroll in the theater studio at the Saratov Palace of Pioneers, whose director was a very talented teacher Natalya Sukhostav . She was the very first one who could watch the play of such guys as Oleg Tabakov and Vladimir Konkin , who at one time studied in this studio.
She advised Galochka to definitely enter the theater school, giving preference to the Shchukin School. And although the girl’s parents did not support her, she decided to trust her beloved teacher. During the entrance exams, Galya was very afraid that the disease would be noticed and she would be rejected due to a defect. But everything worked out. She became a student.
Galina played the starring role of a simple village girl Alka Yagodkina in the film “Women” even before receiving her diploma. Having become a full-fledged actress, she got a job at the theater. Stanislavsky. At the same time, she acted in films.
