Yevheniya Mykhaylivna Dembska (; 28 November 1920 – 29 June 2019) was a Ukrainian theatre and cinema actress.

Early life

Yevheniya Mykhaylivna Dembska was born in

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

to a musical family with three daughters - Yevheniya (also transcribed as Yevgeniya or Eugenia) and sisters Valentina and Neonila. At age three, she lost her father. She graduated from the Kyiv Musical College (1939), she studied at the

Kyiv Conservatory The Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music (), formerly Kyiv Conservatory, is a national music tertiary academy in Kyiv, Ukraine. Its courses include postgraduate education. History The Kyiv Conservatory was founded on 3 November 1913 at ...

(1939-1941).

Career

Beginning in 1940 she was a soloist of the Kyiv theater of small forms. She performed In Klein Kunst Theater in 1945. At the end of the war, together with the troupe, she ended up in Hungary, and appeared before Soviet soldiers. She moved to Lviv, where she performed in the repatriate club. She graduated from the

Lviv Conservatory Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy (), or informally Lviv Conservatory, is a national musical institution of higher education in Lviv, Ukraine. History The LNMA '' Mykola Lysenko'' traces its origins to earlier music institutions in Lvi ...

in 1946. She performed with Mikhail Vodyan in concerts as a soloist of the Lviv Philharmonic. Also in 1946 she participated in the creation of the Lviv Theater of Musical Comedy. In 1953, together with the theater, she moved to Odesa, performing as the leading soloist of the Odesa Academic Theater of Musical Comedy. She appeared in films from 1957 to 2019.

Personal life

Her first husband, pianist Alexander Katz, was called up to the Red Army in 1939 and died in the liberation of

. Her second husband was Alexey Petrovich Krinitsky, a lawyer. Dembska died on 29 June 2019 in

Odesa Odesa, also spelled Odessa, is the third most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern ...

, aged 99. She was buried on 1 July at the Second Christian Cemetery of Odesa.

Recognition

People's Artist of Ukraine People's Artist of Ukraine () is an honorary title awarded by the government of Ukraine. It is the highest title awarded to outstanding performing artists whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts, inc ...

(2000) *

Order of Princess Olga The Order of Princess Olga () is a Ukraine, Ukrainian civil decoration, featuring Olga of Kiev and bestowed to women for "personal merits in state, production, scientific, educational, cultural, charity and other spheres of social activities, fo ...

3d class (2007)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dembska, Yevheniya 1920 births 2019 deaths Ukrainian stage actresses Actresses from Kyiv Soviet actresses Recipients of the title of Merited Artist of Ukraine Lviv Conservatory alumni Kyiv Conservatory alumni