MOSCOW, 8 Aug. People's Artist of the Soviet Union Yulia Borisova died at the age of 98, according to the website of the Vakhtangov Theatre.
The cause of the death of the actress is not specified.
Borisova was born in Moscow on March 17, 1925. In 1947 she graduated from the Shchukin Theater School. She began to play at the Vakhtangov Theater in the same year. One of her most famous roles was Princess Turandot in the 1971 play based on the play by Carlo Gozzi.
Yulia Borisova until the last appeared on the stage of the theater and took part in the play «Eugene Onegin», where she played the role of «Tatyana's Dream».