Lesya Kryvytska

Lesya Kryvytska, née Oleksandra Serhiivna Yelyseyeva (; 16 January 1899 – 7 November 1983) was a Soviet and Ukrainian stage actress and pedagogue. People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.

Early life and education Oleksandra Kryvytska was born in Chyhyryn, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire.

Career Kryvytska began her acting career in 1916 in the troupe of Serhii Pronsky. From 1918 she studied in the Theater school in Kyiv and at the same time worked at the Mykola Sadovsky Theater. In 1919–1920, she was an actress at the State National Theater of the Ukrainian People's Republic in Kamianets-Podilskyi which operated under the direction of Mykola Sadovsky. Together with the theater she went to Galicia, where she was interned in Dombie - a camp near Krakow.

In 1921–1922, Kryvytska returned to Soviet Ukraine and was admitted to the Ivan Franko Traveling Theater. She married Yakiv Kryvytsky and performed under the stage name Lesya Kryvytska. In 1924, Kryvytska worked at the Ukrainian Theater of Volodymyr Demchyshyn. She was also awarded the Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, and medals.