Yanina

My professional path

I am a professional actress and a graduate of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov (VGIK, Moscow). Over the years I have acted in the theatre and appeared in films, television projects and series. I have had the chance to work with well-known directors, among them Karen G. Shakhnazarov and Stanislav S. Govorukhin.

As an actress I travelled a great deal to international film festivals with Karen Shakhnazarov's film “Vanished Empire”, and I received an honorary prize and an award in Nepal for taking part in the presentation of Russian films.

After moving to Denmark I continued my professional work with children at the “Russian House” under the direction of V. Likhachev. With Boris Grachevsky's official permission I re-shot, as a director, stories from “Yeralash” as remixes featuring children. When the “Russian House” held the First Children's Film Festival in Copenhagen, I presented my own directing work there.

Working with children

Working with children has a very special place in what I do. For more than ten years I have run children's events, parties and New Year shows. I am the founder of the children's party agency DioFun, which puts together programmes with entertainers, superheroes and children's favourite characters.

For 12 years now I have appeared every year as the Snow Maiden. In that time many of the children for whom I was once part of the New Year celebration have grown up, but they still remember their Snow Maiden warmly.