Background
Maslennikova Lyudmila Ivanovna (nee Drahavtseva) was born on April 23, 1951 in Voronezh, Russian SFSR (now Russian Federation).
Maslennikova Lyudmila Ivanovna (nee Drahavtseva) was born on April 23, 1951 in Voronezh, Russian SFSR (now Russian Federation).
In 1969 Maslennikova Lyudmila graduated from the Voronezh Choreographic School.
After graduating from the Voronezh Choreographic School, Lyudmila Maslennikova was dancing at the Voronezh Opera and Ballet Theater from 1969 till 1996. Her major parties were: Odette-Odile ("Swan Lake" by Pyotr Tchaikovsky), Lilac Fairy ("Sleeping Beauty" by Pyotr Tchaikovsky), Sylphide ("La Sylphide" by Herman Levenhold), Mirtha ("Gisell" by Adolf Adan), Street Dancer and Dryad Mistress ("Don Quixote" by Ludwig Minkus), Become ("Adam and Eve" by Andrei Petrov), Tsar-maiden ("The Humpbacked Horse" by Rodion Shchedrin), Nurida ("Arabian Nights" by Fikret Amirov), Valeria ("Song of Triumphant Love" by Michael Nosyrev), Valentina ("Angara" by Andrei Eshpy) and others. Since 1996 Lyudmila Maslennikova has been working as a ballet-tutor at the Voronezh Opera and Ballet Theater.