Trivia

Mother, with ex-husband Valeriy Kukhareshin, of daughter Elizaveta Kukhareshina (b. 1977) and son Kondratiy Yakovlev (b. 1980).

Had four grandchildren: Artyom, Timofey and Yana through her daughter Elizaveta; Anastasia through her son Kondratiy.

In May 2019, Yakovleva announced that she has been battling stage IV breast cancer for the last two years. As of July 2019, she received twenty courses of chemotherapy and lost 20 kg as a result of the illness. At some point of battling the illness, she was unable to speak and walk. The cancer later has metastasized to her brain, but she was in stable condition and the tumor stopped growing. In January 2022, it has been announced that she was recovering from brain surgery. On April 1, 2022, Yakovleva died at the age of 64 in Saint Petersburg, five years after she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.

As a child she was taught dancing; she later studied violin at a music school.

During the 1980s, she became one of the most popular actresses of Cinema of the Soviet Union.

In the Soviet disaster film "Air Crew" (1979) she performed with Leonid Filatov the first erotic scene in a mainstream domestic Soviet film.

The remake of 'Air Crew,' now titled as "Flight Crew" was released in 2017, repeating the name and the main theme of the 1979 film. Aleksandra Yakovleva played Tamara again - now a big official in the world of aviation.

In April 2016, Aleksandra Yakovleva returned to acting with the St. Petersburg Maly Theatre Comedy in a leading role as the maid Bernadette.

She derived her stage name Aleksandra Yakovleva from the surname of her grandfather.

In 1993 she left the cinema and until 1997 was the chairman of the committee on culture and tourism of the city of Kaliningrad.

In 1978 she graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema.