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Hanna Yanushevych
Ukrainian actress (1907–1983)
Hanna Yakivna Yanushevych (14 December 1907 – 25 December 1983) was a Ukrainian actress. Merited Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1946). People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1965).[1]
Yanushevych graduated from Kyiv M. Lysenko Music and Drama Institute in 1928.[2]
Since 1927, she played on the stage at the Kyiv I. Franko Theater, then in the Kharkiv State Revolution Theater (1931–1936).[3] In 1940, Yanushevych moved to Chernivtsi, where she worked at Chernivtsi State Ukrainian Drama Theater, formed based on Kharkiv State Revolution Theater (since 1954, Chernivtsi O. Kobylianska Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater)[3] with her husband, actor Petro Mikhnevych. She worked in the theater until her last days.[2]
During her years at the Chernivtsi Drama Theater, Yanushevych created over 200 highly artistic images of the Soviet and classical repertoire. Since 1954, she also starred in films.
- Merited Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1946)[2]
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1946)[2]
- People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1965)[2]
- Order of the Badge of Honour (1955)[2]
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1960)[2]
- Medal "For Valiant Labour" (1970)[2]
The actress's name is listed in the "Alley of Stars" in Chernivtsi.
A memorial plaque was installed on the Taras Shevchenko St., 13 in Chernivtsi: "People's Artist of Ukraine Hanna Yanushevych lived in this building from 1963 to 1983."
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