Elena Shanina

Elena Shanina, Elena Yurievna Shanina (Russian: Елена Юрьевна Шанина) (born December 24, 1952, Saratov) - Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, singer. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1997).

Biography
Parents were not actors, mother from Leningrad, father Yuri - a hereditary engineer, studied at the Leningrad Institute of Water Transport. From Leningrad, his father was sent to Saratov, where Elena was born. In Saratov there were difficult living conditions, at first they lived on a landing stage, Lena was sick a lot.

She graduated from the acting department of LGITMiK (course of I.P. Vladimirov).

Actress of the Lenkom Theater. The famous Conchita in the play "Juno" and "Avos" (1981). During the tour “Lenkoma” with this performance in Paris (1983) received a bouquet of flowers from the hands of Mireille Mathieu.

She worked with directors: V.V. Mirzoev, R.E. Kozak, O.B. Fomin, A.N. Maximov, M.M. Kozakov

Works on the radio - The heroine in the radio play "Tenderness" according to the letters of A. Barbyus, Maroussia in the audio play "About Fedot the Sagittarius, a removed young man" based on the play by L. Filatov.

Favorite writer is N. S. Gumilyov.

Family
n the 1970s, she was married to actor Mikhail Polyak (1948-1995). At first, the couple were happy, but Michael drank too much, and the marriage broke up. While working in Lenkom, the actress had an affair with a stage colleague Alexander Zbruev, who was married at that time. In 1993, Elena Shanina and Alexander Zbruev had a daughter, Tatyana.

Recognition and rewards
In the early 1980s, Elena Shanina acted as the host in the children's program "Alarm Clock". Currently working on television, among roles in television productions:
 * Honored Artist of the RSFSR (November 15, 1984)
 * People's Artist of the Russian Federation (September 11, 1997)
 * Order of Friendship (September 16, 2002)
 * The portrait of Elena Shanina is depicted on a coin of 1 dollar worth of Niue, dedicated to the rock opera "Juno and Avos."
 * Elena Shanina served as a prototype for the monument to Ellochka the cannibal in Kharkov.
 * Nastya (“Trouble from a Tender Heart” by V. A. Sollogub),
 * Dorimena ("Reluctantly Marriage" by Moliere).