Valentina Sharykina

Valentina Dmitrievna Sharykina (; 25 February 1940 – 23 November 2025) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. People's Artist of Russia.

Sharykina was born in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union on 25 February 1940. In the 1970s, she was in a de facto marriage with film director Yevgeny Tashkov. Sharykina died on 23 November 2025, at the age of 85.

Selected filmography The Third Half (1962) as Vera Flying Days (1966) as Fyodor Ivanovich's wife Older Sister (1966) as Shura July Rain (1966) as Lyusya Major Whirlwind (1967) as girl dancing at the restaurant Yegor Bulychyov and Others (1971) as Elizaveta Ruslan and Lyudmila (1972) as episode Privalov's Millions (1972) as actress Kolpakova Vanyushin's Children (1973) as Lyudmila Krasavina Down House (2001) as general's wife Ivolgina Long Farewell (2004) as Lyalya in old Voronin's Family (TV series, 2010) as Tatyana Alekseevna Yeltsin: Three Days in August (2011) as Emma Yazova Happy Together (TV series, 2012) as Iraida