Yanina Kuznetsova

Заведующая балетной труппой

Born in Leningrad.

In 1991, graduated from the Vaganova Russian Ballet Academy, class of N. Sakhnovskaya.

From 1991 to 2014, performed at the St. Petersburg Mussorgsky State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (Mikhailovsky Theatre), playing all the corps de ballet parts from the classical repertoire, along with a number of solos:
Spanish Dance (The Swan Lake),
Oriental Dance (The Nutcracker),
Panaderas (Raymonda),
Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor),
Nurse (Romeo and Juliet),
Radish’s Mother (Cipollino),
Auvergne Dance (Flames of Paris),
Fandango (Don Quixote),
Forbans Duo (Le Corsaire).

Head of Directing at the St. Petersburg State Academic Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre since 2014.

Troupe Manager at the St. State Academic Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre since 2016.