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MOSCOW, January 10 People's Artist of the USSR, opera singer Tamara Milashkina died on Wednesday at the age of 90, the press service of the Bolshoi Theater reported.
“The management and staff of the Bolshoi Theater report with deep regret that on January 10, at the age of 90, People’s Artist of the USSR, Soviet and Russian opera singer (soprano) Tamara Milashkina died,” the statement says. 
In 1958, in her last year at the Conservatory, Milashkina was accepted into the Bolshoi Theater opera troupe. She made her debut in May of the same year as Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin. In 1961-62 she trained at the La Scala theater. Milashkina's repertoire included the roles of Desdemona and Aida in Verdi's operas, Tosca in Puccini's opera, Natasha in Prokofiev's War and Peace and others.
For many years, Milashkina’s constant partner was her husband, opera singer, People’s Artist of the USSR Vladimir Atlantov. After leaving the Bolshoi Theater in 1989, she moved with her husband to Austria.
Farewell to Tamara Milashkina will take place in Vienna, where she will be buried at the Russian Cemetery. The Bolshoi Theater expresses its deepest condolences to Vladimir Atlantov and the singer’s family and friends.
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