Marianna Yablonskaya

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Marianna Yablonskaya (1938–1980) was a Russian theater actress, director and writer. She was born in Leningrad and died in Moscow at age 42. Her father, Viktor Yablonsky, was an actor and director at the Moscow Art Theatre. She studied at the Leningrad Theatrical Institute, graduating in 1959, and worked as a leading actor at the Lensoviet Academic Theatre in Leningrad. She also performed at the Mayakovsky Theatre in Moscow. Her best-known stage role was Negina in Talents and Admirers by Alexander Ostrovsky, staged in Moscow by Maria Knebel. Another notable work was Plush Monkey in a Crib at the Gogol Theatre in Moscow. She married rocket scientist Arkady Yarovsky. Their daughter, Marianna Yarovskaya, is a filmmaker in the United States; her 2018 short film Women of the Gulag was Oscar-nominated. Yablonskaya wrote 11 plays and two books of short stories.