Background
Galina Volchek is a daughter of the cameraman and director Boris Volchek.
Galina Volchek is a daughter of the cameraman and director Boris Volchek.
Art Theatre School at the Moscow Art Theater.
After finishing the Moscow Art Theatre School (1955, Karev course) she co-founded the Sovremennik Theatre, together with Igor Kvasha, Oleg Tabakov, Oleg Yefremov and Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev. Since 1972 she has been the chief director of the theater, and since 1989 its artistic director Volchek has directed over thirty productions.
Among them are Russian and world classics, works of contemporary domestic and foreign authors.
She was repeatedly invited to productions in theaters in Germany, Finland, Ireland, the United States of America, Hungary, Poland and other countries. She was engaged many times in theater pedagogy activities abroad.
In 1999 Volchek left the parliament. Also divorced. Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Prize (1967).
Full cavalier of the Order "Foreign Merit to the Fatherland".
Volchek was elected a deputy into the State Duma in 1995, where she became a member of the Committee on Culture.