Veronica Sterkhova

Ballerinas

• - 3rd prize at the 5th Russian Ballet Young Performers’ Competition (Moscow, 2022)
• - 3rd prize at the 17th Arabesque Open Russian Ballet Competition named after Ekaterina Maximova (Perm, 2022). Also won the special Natalia Dudinskaya Award for preserving the Russian ballet school heritage.
• - Winner of the Svetlana Zakharova Foundation Scholarship (2021–2022)

Born in Izhevsk. In 2022, graduated from the Perm State Choreographic College, where she studied under E. F. Khrebtova. Joined the St. Petersburg State Academic Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre as a ballerina in 2022. Playing as a soloist at the Theatre since 2024.

Credits:

• Pas de Trois in Swan Lake (choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov);Fairy of Mischief and Blue Bird in The Sleeping Beauty (choreography by Jean-Guillaume Bart);Masha in The Nutcracker (choreography by Vasili Vainonen);Doll in The Nutcracker (choreography by Vasili Vainonen, reinterpreted by Nikolay Tsiskaridze);
• Pas de Trois from the Classicism-Romanticism cycle (choreography by Leonid Yacobson);
• Brilliant Divertissement (choreography by Leonid Yacobson);
• Cheeky Chastushki (choreography by Vyacheslav Samodurov);
• 598 Beats (choreography by Vyacheslav Samodurov).