Biografia

Zinaida Sharko was a Russian actress of theatre and film.

The actress is known to moviegoers primarily as the lead actress in Kira Muratova's film " The Long Farewell ".

In the 1970s, Sharko gradually moved to older roles, and not so much because of her age, which was not great, but because of the ever-increasing competition: in I. Erken's play "Cats and Mice", her heroine, Erzhebet Orban, was 25 years older than the performer.

After the start of World War II she took part in concerts for the wounded in the hospitals, with a children's song and dance ensemble. For these concerts, a total of 900, she was awarded the medal For valorous work in the Great Patriotic War, which always considered later would call the most expensive of its awards.

In the summer of 2022, a new monument with her portrait in the avant-garde style was installed on the actress's grave. The author of the portrait is actor and artist Anatoly Garichev.