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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.

In 1947, after graduating with a gold medal from Girls' School No. 1 in Cheboksary , Zinaida Sharko, who had dreamed of the Art Theatre since childhood, despite her parents' protests ("we thought you would become a person"), went to Moscow to enroll in the Moscow Art Theatre School.

While studying, in 1950-1951 she performed with the Leningrad regional theater, and after graduation worked at the Lenconcert Theatre (1951-1952) and at the Lensovet Theatre (1952-1956). After 1956 she had a six-decade-long career with the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater.

For her leading female role in Vitaly Melnikov's film " The Garden Was Full of the Moon ", she was awarded a number of film awards, including " Niki " and "Golden Ram".

In 1951 she graduated from the Leningrad Theatrical Institute.

She was a member of Bolshoi Drama Theatre, and was awarded People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1980.