Born | Yelena Kolesnichenko August 24, 1979 |
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Died | October 4, 2011 | (aged 32)
Occupation | Stage actress |
Years active | 2001–2011 |
Spouse(s) | Yegor Chernykh (m? - 2011 (her death); 1 child |
Yelena Chernykh ( Cyrillic: Елена Черных) (August 24, 1979 – October 4, 2011) was a Russian theatre actress. [1] [2] She has been called "хрупкая красавица и вместе с тем необычайно выносливая актриса" (a fragile beauty and yet extraordinarily hardy actress). [3]
The 32-year-old actress was killed in a car crash on 4 October 2011 in Novoanninsky, along with fellow actors, 59-year-old Aleksandr Yegorov and 52-year-old Valentina Yudina. [4] Chernykh and Yegorov, who both died in the same collision, were considered favorite artists of the "Волгоградского музыкально-драматического казачьего театра" (Volgograd Music and Drama Theatre of the Cossack). [5]
At the time her death, Yelena was married to Yegor Chernykh, with whom she had one daughter. [3]
Her better known theater works [2] [6] include