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MOSCOW, August 3 People's Artist of the RSFSR Irina Miroshnichenko has died at the age of 82, said Igor Zolotovitsky, rector of the Moscow Art Theater School.
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"Irina Petrovna Miroshnichenko is gone. < …> She was ill, could not cope with the disease, she was gone,” he said.
Deputy director of the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov for public relations Vadim Vernik specified that the actress died at 11:35.
As the rector of the Moscow Art Theater School Igor Zolotovitsky later said, the artist will be buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery on Monday, August 7. On the same day, a farewell ceremony will take place in the theater, which will begin, preliminary, at 11:00, he added.
This week it became known that Miroshnichenko was in intensive care. According to media reports, she had a cardiac arrest. Doctors assessed her condition as serious.
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Irina Petrovna Miroshnichenko was born on July 24, 1942 in Barnaul. In 1965 she graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School and was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater (now the Moscow Art Theater named after A. P. Chekhov). Maeterlinck, «An Ideal Husband» by Oscar Wilde, in Chekhov's plays «The Seagull», «Three Sisters», «Ivanov», «Uncle Vanya», «The Cherry Orchard», in «The Barbarians» by Maxim Gorky. This season she played in the production of Vladimir Petrov «My dear Matilda».
The actress made her film debut in 1963 in the episodic role of Katya, the sister of the protagonist in Georgy Danelia's film «I'm walking around Moscow». The first major role on the silver screen for her was the work in the military drama «They were known only by sight» (1966). Then she starred in the films «Mistake of the Resident», «Mission in Kabul», «Secret Service Agent», «You never dreamed of …», «Secrets of Madam Wong», «Winter Cherry» and many others.
In 1998 she was awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR. She was also awarded the Soviet Order of the Badge of Honor (1971) and the Russian Orders of Honor (1998), Orders of Merit for the Fatherland, III and IV degrees, Friendship (2015).
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