“Zinaida Mikhailovna Kirienko was a wonderful actress, endowed with a bright talent and sincere generosity.
Her departure is a great, irreparable loss for cinema, national culture, ”the telegram says.
Earlier it became known about the death of Zinaida Kiriyenko at the age of 88.
She is known for her roles in film adaptations of Sholokhov's works The Quiet Flows the Don and The Fate of a Man.
Farewell to Kiriyenko will take place on February 15 at the Central House of Cinematographers in Moscow.