Svetlana Dzantemirovna Adyrkhaeva[a] (12 May 1938 – 27 August 2023) was a Soviet and Russian Ossetian ballerina. She was made People's Artist of the USSR in 1984.
In 1960 she became a soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet, remaining with the company until 1988.[2] There, she became Galina Ulanova's disciple and also received further mentorship from Marina Semyonova. She participated in a ballet for two generations playing characters such as Aegina in Spartacus, and many others.[3] From 1978 to 1981 she was member of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts from which she graduated in 1980 and became a teacher there a year later. From 1995 to 2001 she was a teacher at the Dance Academy of the New Humanitarian University of Natalia Nesterova and then held the same position at the Bolshoi Theater from 2001.[2]
Adyrkhaeva died on 27 August 2023, at the age of 85.[1]
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