Farewell to prima ballerina Kondratieva will take place at the Bolshoi Theater on July 11

MOSCOW, July 9 The farewell to People's Artist of the USSR, prima ballerina Marina Kondratieva will take place at the Bolshoi Theater on July 11, after which she will be buried at the Troekurovsky Cemetery, the the theater's press service.
Kondratieva died on Monday night at the age of 91.
«The farewell to Marina Kondratieva will take place on July 11 at 11 a.m. at the Bolshoi Theater, and the funeral will take place at the Troekurovsky Cemetery, the funeral service at 12:30,» the press service representative said.
Marina Kondratieva was born on February 1, 1934 in Leningrad. In 1952, she graduated from the Moscow Choreographic School (Galina Petrova's class) and became an artist of the Bolshoi Theater ballet troupe. In addition, in 1980 she graduated from GITIS, after which she taught there, and then at the Moscow State Academy of Choreography.

Since 1980, Kondratieva has been a teacher-repetiteur of the Bolshoi Theater ballet troupe. Under her direction rehearsed Lyudmila Semenyaka, Galina Stepanenko, Anna Antonicheva, Ekaterina Shipulina, Natalia Osipova, Olga Smirnova, Yulia Stepanova, Margarita Shrainer, Nelly Kobakhidze, Ana Turazashvili, Antonina Chapkina, Nina Biryukova.