“December 29, at 9 a.m., the doors of the theater will open for all who wish to say goodbye to Galina Volchek. The civil requiem will end at 12:30. The funeral at the Novodevichy cemetery at 14:00, ”the theater’s press service said.

On the day of farewell from Volchek, from 7:00 to 14:00 traffic will be blocked on Chistoprudny Boulevard from the theater.

Earlier it was reported that the farewell to Volchek will be held at the Sovremennik Theater on December 29 at 11:00.

The artistic director of the Alexandrinsky Theater Valery Fokin, in an interview with Channel Five, described the death of Volchek as a personal loss.

Galina Volchek died on December 26 at the 87th year of her life.