Galina Polskikh
Biography
Galina Polskikh is a renowned Soviet and Russian film actress born on November 27, 1939, in Moscow to a poor family that struggled with World War II and typhoid fever. She pursued her dream of becoming an actress at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography, where she was taught by Sergei Gerasimov. Polskikh's breakthrough roles in films like "Walking the Streets of Moscow" (1964) and "The Journalist" (1967) established her as one of Russia's most outstanding film stars.