"What can I say? This is a terrible event, a person passed away. The departure of every person from life is a tragedy, this is grief, especially for those millions of people who knew her as an actress, for those hundreds of thousands of actors with whom she worked together, for those actors and actresses whom she raised in the Sovremennik Theater ", Whose leader she was a long time ... the Kingdom of heaven to her, a wonderful actress, an honest, decent man left us," he said.
Earlier, the press office of Sovremennik reported that Galina Volchek died in one of the capital's clinics.
December 24, it became known about the hospitalization of the artist. According to some reports, she was diagnosed with pneumonia.