Education
Svetlana Penkina graduated from the Minsk Theater and Art Institute.
Svetlana Penkina graduated from the Minsk Theater and Art Institute.
The actress got the first taste of success for her role of Katya Bulavina in the Soviet thirteen-episode television drama series The Road to Calvary (Russian: Хождение по мукам) based on the trilogy The Road to Calvary (Russian: Хождение по мукам) by Aleksey Tolstoy. The role was her diploma work at the Minsk Theater Institute. While working on the character, the young actress co-starred in two films.
In The Color of Gold (Russian: Цвет золота) she appeared in one of the starring roles, Zoya.
In 1982, she played Lida in the film The Solar Wind (Russian: Солнечный ветер), and in 1985, she had the role of secretary Vika in Foreign The Coming Age, the adaptation of the novel by Soviet writer Georgiy Markov. Soon after that, she retired from movie roles.