Honored artist of Russia
People's artist of the RSFSR

Graduated from the Perm ballet Academy. She began her professional career at the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre in Perm.
Nowadays Lyubov Kunakova works at the Mariinsky Theatre of Saint-Petersburg as a dance teacher.

Honored artist of Tajikian SSR
Honored arts’ elder statesman Of Russia

Graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 1956 and joined the ballet company of the Mariinsky Theatre.
Nowadays Gennady Selyutsky is transferring his rich artistic experience to young ballet dancers as a teacher of the classical ballet and a professor at the Vaganova Ballet Academy and as a dance instructor at the Mariinsky Theatre.
Among his students were Farukh Ruzimatov, Vyacheslav Samodurov and Alen Bottaini.

People's artist of the RSFSR

Graduated from the Kiev’s State Choreographic College in 1967 and from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 1970. Joined the ballet company of the Mariinsky Theatre. From 1993 to 2002 Sergey worked as a teacher of the classical dance at the Boston Ballet Company (USA). Since 2003 he works as a teacher-repetiteur at the Mariinsky Theatre.