Zhanna Bolotova is a Soviet film actress who was popular in the 1970s and the early 1980s In 1977 she became a USSR State Prize laureate and was designated as a Peoples Artist of Russia in 1985 She debuted on screen while still at school in The House That I Live In by Lev Kulidzhanov and Yakov Segel In 1964 she graduated the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography where she studied in the class of Sergei Gerasimov and Tatyana Makarova to join the Cinema Actor Studio Theatre In 1969 she received her first international award for The Best Female Role at the Varna Red Cross film festival for 2424 Does Not Return The Silence of Dr Evens 1974 earned her another award in the same category at the Triest Film Festival