Skorulska, Nataliia

Skorulska, Nataliia [Скорульська, Наталія; Skorul's'ka, Natalija], b 20 February 1915 in Zhytomyr, d 6 August 1982 in Kyiv. Ballerina, ballet master, and scenarist; daughter of Mykhailo Skorulsky. In 1930 she completed study at the Zhytomyr ballet school, and in 1934, the Kyiv Music and Choreography College. In 1934–56 she was a soloist in the Kyiv Theater of Opera and Ballet (from 1957 its ballet master). She is the scenarist of A. Svechnikov’s ballet Marusia Bohuslavka and Herman Zhukovsky’s ballet The Forest Song. From 1972 she taught at the Kyiv Institute of Culture.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]