Olga Kusenko


Olga Yakivna Kusenko was a Ukrainian actress who became the People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and the People's Artist of the USSR. She was Yuri Tymoshenko's first wife.

Biography

She was born in 1919 in the city of Kaniv. From 1937 to 1941, she studied at the Kyiv Theater Institute under. Since 1942, she was an artist of the Stalingrad Front Theater, then of the Theater of the 4th Ukrainian Front. Conducted more than 450 concerts on the front lines. 3 1944 she worked at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater.
She was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the 6th–8th convocations.
She died on November 17, 1997, in Kyiv. She was buried at the Baikove Cemetery.

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