Yelena Chernykh

Yelena Chernykh
Cyrillic: Елена Черных
(or Helen Black)
Born Yelena Kolesnichenko
August 24, 1979
Volzhskoye, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died October 4, 2011 (aged 32)
Novoanninsky, Novoanninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia
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]

Death

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]

Theater

Her better known theater works[2][6] include

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