Olha Ilyina
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Olha Oleksiivna Ilyina (Ukrainian: Ольга Олексіївна Ільїна; 10 July 1937 - 21 May 2014) was a Ukrainian actress and director. People's Artist of Ukraine.
Olha Ilyina was born on July 10, 1937, in Kyiv. After receiving secondary education, she studied at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre Institute (1954-1959).[1] Her teachers were People's Artists of the Ukrainian SSR Kostiantyn Stepankov and Petro Sergienko. After graduating from the institute, Ilyina worked at the Chernivtsi O. Kobylianska Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater. At the same time, she studied at the Faculty of Foreign Languages at the Chernivtsi State University, graduating in 1974.[2]