Marina Kondratyeva
Russian ballerina Marina Viktorovna Kondratyeva was born in Leningrad on 1 February 1934 and she studied at the Moscow Choreographic School (Bolshoi Ballet Academy).
Hired by the Bolshoi ballet troupe, she danced roles such as Juliet in Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, Princess Aurora in Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty and the title roles in Adolphe Adam's Giselle and Prokofiev's Cinderella. She also danced to modern music such as that by Arif Melikov and Rodion Shchedrin.
Later, in the 1980s, she taught ballet in Moscow, preparing the careers of other soloists. Marina Kondratyeva died in Moscow on 8 July 2024, aged ninety.