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Honoured Artist of Russia (2008). Prize-winner at the Perm International Ballet Competition (2006). Recipient of the Spirit of Dance prize from Ballet magazine (2006) and the Golden Sofit, St. Petersburg’s theatre prize (2006). Recipient of the DANCE OPEN International ballet prize in the category “Miss Virtuosa” (2010). Born in Krasnoyarsk. Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2001 and joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company where she is now a Prima ballerina. Her repertoire includes principal roles in all classical ballets that are performed at the Mariinsky Theatre as well as ballets by Yuri Grigorovich, Harald Lander, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Frederic Ashton, William Forsythe, Angelin Preljocaj and Wayne McGregor. She was the first performer of the roles of the Queen of the Sea (Ondine with choreography by Pierre Lacotte, 2006) and the Tsar Maiden (The Little Humpbacked Horse with choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, 2009).