Olena Vasilivna Chekan (also Yelena Chekan; Ukrainian: Олeнa
Ð'acилівнa Чeкaн; Polish: Helena Czekan; Serbian: Jelena
Чекић, 26 April 1946 â€" 21 December 2013, Kyiv, Ukraine) was a
Soviet and Ukrainian film actress, script writer and journalist.Chekan
was born on 26 April 1946 in Kyiv. Her father was Vasily Ioannovich
Chekan (28 December 1906 â€" 23 November 1986), mother Lyubov Pavlovna
Chekan â€" Tarapon (15 June 1914 â€" 19 July 1994). In 1972, she
graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute in Moscow. The
artistic director of the course was Vladimir Etush. Chekan studied
dramatic arts course in the same years, together with Natalya
Gundareva and Konstantin Raikin.She worked as an actress at the Moscow
Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, at the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre,
at the Studio Theatre of a Film actor of the Alexander Dovzhenko Film
Studios (Kyiv), at the Studio Theatre "Suzirya" ("Constellation") in
Kyiv. She also worked on Ukrainian TV, at the Broadcast Studio 1+1 (TV
Channel) as a creative editor of the "Document" project. Chekan worked
at the Ukrainskyi Tyzhden (The Ukrainian Week) magazine as a
journalist and assistant of editor-in-chief since the day of the
magazine's foundation in 2007.
Ð'acилівнa Чeкaн; Polish: Helena Czekan; Serbian: Jelena
Чекић, 26 April 1946 â€" 21 December 2013, Kyiv, Ukraine) was a
Soviet and Ukrainian film actress, script writer and journalist.Chekan
was born on 26 April 1946 in Kyiv. Her father was Vasily Ioannovich
Chekan (28 December 1906 â€" 23 November 1986), mother Lyubov Pavlovna
Chekan â€" Tarapon (15 June 1914 â€" 19 July 1994). In 1972, she
graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute in Moscow. The
artistic director of the course was Vladimir Etush. Chekan studied
dramatic arts course in the same years, together with Natalya
Gundareva and Konstantin Raikin.She worked as an actress at the Moscow
Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, at the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre,
at the Studio Theatre of a Film actor of the Alexander Dovzhenko Film
Studios (Kyiv), at the Studio Theatre "Suzirya" ("Constellation") in
Kyiv. She also worked on Ukrainian TV, at the Broadcast Studio 1+1 (TV
Channel) as a creative editor of the "Document" project. Chekan worked
at the Ukrainskyi Tyzhden (The Ukrainian Week) magazine as a
journalist and assistant of editor-in-chief since the day of the
magazine's foundation in 2007.
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