Tatyana Konyukhova

Tatyana Georgyevna Konyukhova (; 12 November 1931 – 2 April 2024) was a Soviet actress. People's Artist of the RSFSR. She was also a Member of the CPSU from 1967.

Biography Tatyana Konyukhova was born on 12 November 1931 in Tashkent (Uzbek SSR). Her father hailed from Ladyzhenki near Poltava and her mother was from Zolochiv in Kharkiv. Her grandfather was an agronomist at the Tereshchenko estate, a very large sugar producer.

In 1946, her father was sent to work in Latvia, and the family moved to Riga. In 1949 she left, went to Moscow and entered VGIK (Boris Bibikov's and Olga Pyzhova's workshop), despite her father's belief that she was doomed to failure. Quite contrary to her father's misgivings, however, she performed very well there, both academically and theatrically, and soon attracted film directors' attention.

As a second-year student, she made her debut in cinema in the film by Alexander Rou May Night, or the Drowned Maiden. In 1955, she graduated from University and worked briefly in Maly Theatre. In the years 1956–1992 she was an actress at the National Film Actors' Theatre.

From 1964, Konyukhova was a member of the Committee of the Lenin Prize in literature and art. From 1969, she was a member of the Central Committee of the Trade Union of Workers of Culture.

Konyukhova died on 2 April 2024, at the age of 92.

Family Her first husband – a student of film studies faculty of VGIK Valeri Karen (later — editor association Mosfilm). The second husband – a sound engineer Boris Vengerovsky. The third husband – a 4-time champion of the USSR (1953, 1954, 1958, 1961), a javelin thrower, a doctor of pedagogical sciences, Vladimir Kuznetsov. Son – Sergey Kuznetsov, a Foreign Ministry employee. Granddaughter – Olga, engaged in synchronized swimming.

Selected filmography 1951 – Sporting Honour 1952 – May Nights, or the Drowned 1953 – Marina's Destiny 1955 – The Boys from Leningrad 1955 – Volnitsa 1955 – Good Morning 1956 – Different Fates 1957 – An Unusual Summer 1958 – Over Tissa 1958 – Oleko Dundich 1961 – Dima Gorin's Career 1962 – Beat the Drum! 1964 – Balzaminov's Marriage 1964 – Executions at Dawn 1967 – The Red and the White 1968 – The Mysterious Monk 1972 – Nights Chronicle 1979 – Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears 1981 – A Painter's Wife Portrait 1986 – On the Porch Sat With Gold 1990 – All Ahead 1995 – Pacific Angel Flying 2008 – Three with Carronade Square 2011 – Stored Fate