Nabilya Galilevna Valitova was a ballerina, teacher and ballet master.
Background
Nabilya Galilevna Valitova (nee Gaptelhamitovna) was born on December 28, 1928 in the Syryshbashevo village of the Chekmagushevsky district of the Bashkir ASSR (now Syryshbashevo village, Chekmagushevsky District, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russian Federation).
Education
Nabilya Galilevna Valitova graduated from the Vaganova Leningrad Choreography School (1949, teacher A.Y. Vaganova).
Career
Nabilya Galilevna was a soloist of the Ufa Opera and Ballet Theater (1949-1961), Voronezh Musical Theater (opera and ballet theater, 1961-1975). She was a teacher (since 1961), artistic director (1977-1979) of the Voronezh Choreographic School, teacher of the Voronezh State Academy of Arts (1975-1977).
Nabilya Galilevna was a chief ballet-master (1979-1985), artistic director of the ballet of the Voronezh Opera and Ballet Theater (1995-2006). The author of the libretto and the production (together with Ya.Z. Lifshits) of the ballet "Skaz zemli russkoy" by Gennady Trofimovich Stavonin (1982). Choreographer in operas: "Faust" by Charles Gounod, "Eugene Onegin" by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
Among her students: A. Petrina, L. Efimova, L. Kosogorova, M. Leonkina, T. Khatuntseva, L. Denisova, T. Frolova, E. Menshikh and others.