{{Short description|Soviet and Russian actress (1957–2022)}} {{family name hatnote|Evgenievna|Yakovleva|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Aleksandra Yakovleva<br>Александра Яковлева | image = Aleksandra Yakovleva, May 2021.jpg | birth_name = Aleksandra Evgenievna Ivanes | birth_date = {{Birth date|1957|7|2|df=yes}} | birth_place = Kaliningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|4|1|1957|7|2|df=yes}} | death_place = Saint Petersburg, Russia | alma_mater = Russian State Institute of Performing Arts | occupation = Actress, public figure, rail transport | years_active = 1978–2022 }}
'''Aleksandra Yakovleva''' (born '''Aleksandra Evgenievna Ivanes''', {{langx|ru|Александра Евгеньевна Иванес}}; 2 July 1957 – 1 April 2022) was a Soviet and Russian actress and, later, a Russian rail transport executive.<ref name="rk">{{Cite web|url=https://tvkultura.ru/person/show/person_id/79/|publisher=Russia-K|title=Александра Яковлева-Аасмяэ|access-date=4 February 2018|archive-date=15 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215081834/https://tvkultura.ru/person/show/person_id/79/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="uv">{{cite web|url=https://uznayvse.ru/znamenitosti/biografiya-aleksandra-yakovleva.html|publisher=uznayvse|title=Александра Яковлева: биография и новости}}</ref><ref name="аиф"/>
==Biography== Aleksandra Evgenievna Ivanes was born on 2 July 1957 in Kaliningrad.<ref>[http://a-yakovleva.sitecity.ru/stext_2007170823.phtml Биография Александры Яковлевой] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304113626/http://a-yakovleva.sitecity.ru/stext_2007170823.phtml |date=4 March 2016 }} // a-yakovleva.sitecity.ru</ref> She derived her stage name Aleksandra Yakovleva from the surname of her maternal grandfather. As a child she was taught dancing; she later studied violin at a music school. In 1978 she graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema. In the Soviet disaster film ''Air Crew'' (1979), she performed with Leonid Filatov the first erotic scene in a mainstream domestic Soviet film.<ref name="аиф"/> During the 1980s, she became one of the most popular actresses of Cinema of the Soviet Union.<ref name="аиф"/>
In 1993, she left the cinema, Until 1997, she was the chairman of the committee on culture and tourism of the city of Kaliningrad.<ref name="аиф">{{cite web |author=Колесников, Евгений |url=http://www.spb.aif.ru/culture/person/1191041 |title=Наша Николь Кидман. Александра Яковлева ушла из кино 21 год назад |lang=ru |website=spb.aif.ru |publisher=Аргументы и факты |date=2014-06-18 |access-date=23 June 2022 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924104612/http://www.spb.aif.ru/culture/person/1191041 |url-status=live }}</ref> From 1997, she served as Head of quality management and staff service at Airport Pulkovo and then as deputy chief of management and marketing on the October Railway. She took part in December 2009 launch of the high-speed "Sapsan" trains on the route Moscow — St. Petersburg. At her initiative, a coach with a restaurant and a bar were included in the service. Later, she held the position of Deputy Director General of the Directorate-speed communications of JSC "Russian Railways" (KL net). Having returned to the area on 7 June 2012, she was elected chairman of the Kaliningrad regional branch of the Russian political party "Yabloko".<ref name="«Яблоко»">[https://archive.today/20120730224150/www.firstnews.ru/news/lenta/zvezda-ekipazha-i-charodeev-vozglavila-kalinigradskoe-yabloko/ Звезда «Экипажа» и «Чародеев» возглавила калининградское «Яблоко»], firstnews.ru (8 июня 2012 года)</ref>
In April 2016, Yakovleva returned to acting with the St. Petersburg Maly Theatre Comedy in a leading role as "Bernadette", the maid. The remake of ''Flight Crew'' was released in 2017, repeating the name and the main theme of the 1979 film. Yakovleva played Tamara again, this time as a big official in the world of aviation.<ref name="аиф"/>
==Death== On 1 April 2022, Yakovleva died at the age of 64 in Saint Petersburg, five years after she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.<ref>[https://en.newizv.ru/news/2021-06-21/doctors-gave-her-six-months-alexandra-yakovleva-defeated-cancer-383862 "Doctors Gave Her Six Months"], newizv.ru. Accessed 29 January 2024.</ref><ref>[https://247newsagency.com/opinion/93902.html Notice of death of Aleksandra Yakovleva], 247newsagency.com. Accessed 29 January 2024.</ref>
==Selected filmography== *1979 ''Air Crew'' (Экипаж) as ''Tamara'' *1982 ''Charodei'' (Чародеи) as ''Alyona'' *1982 ''Tears Were Falling'' (Слёзы капали) as ''Lyusya'' *1984 ''Skydivers'' (Парашютисты) as ''Zinaida Gostilova'' *1985 ''Start All Over Again'' (Начни сначала) as ''Lera'' *1986 ''Forgive Me'' (Прости) as ''Natasha'' *1987 ''A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines'' (Человек с бульвара Капуцинов) as ''Ms. Diana Little'' *1988 ''Bright Personality'' (Светлая личность) as ''Rita Haritullina'' *2016 ''Flight Crew'' (Экипаж) as ''Tamara'' (1985) «Танцплощадка» режиссёра Самсона Самсонова роль Александры
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