Yekaterina Bunchuk

Yekaterina Bunchuk (15th of November 1895, Kharkiv, Russian Empire – 3rd of February 1968, Riga, Latvian SSR) – the leading actress of the Riga Russian Drama Theatre. She had worked in Riga from 1924.

Y. Bunchuk finished theatrical studio in Kharkiv and was performing at the theatres of Kharkiv, Kazan, Rostov, Moscow, St.Petersburg.

She emigrated to Latvia in 1923 and became an actress of the Riga Russian Drama Theatre in 1924, where she had been working worked all her life but the period of Nazi occupation.

In the opinion of theatrical producers, Y. Bunchuk had brilliant vocal skills and artistic culture.

Y. Bunchuk was performing different roles, especially popular was the role of Yelena in the play by M. Bulgakov “The days of the Turbins”. She was performing many other roles including in the plays by  Latvian scriptwriters.

Sources of information:

110-летию со дня основания Русского театра в Риге посвящается. – Автор З. Сегаль. Составитель хроники – Т. Власова. – Рига, Издание Рижского театра русской драмы, 1994.

Рижский театр русской драмы: очерк истории. 1940–1983. Л. Акуратере, Л. Берзиня, Л. Дзене, С. Радзобе, Г. Саулите. – Рига: Зинатне, 1983.

Рижский театр русской драмы – 100. Сост. Зиновий Сегаль и Татьяна Власова. – Рига: Авотс, 1983.

М. Аугсткалн. «Один сезон Екатерины Бунчук». – Театр и жизнь, 1962 год;

Зиновий Сегаль. «Екатерина Бунчук. Свой цвет в радуге». – Рига, 1997 год.

Татьяна Власова о Е.О. Бунчук  в сборнике «Кино и театр в Латвии», 1-й том.