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Larysa Khorolets

Ukrainian actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ12167639 ↗
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Larysa Ivanivna Khorolets (Ukrainian: Лариса Іванівна Хоролець; 25 August 1948 – 12 April 2022) was a Ukrainian actress, playwright, cultural manager, politician, and academic teacher. She played at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater from 1973 to 1990. She served as the Minister of Culture of Ukraine in the Ukrainian SSR from August 1991, and upon Ukraine's independence later that year, serving until 1992. Afterward, she held positions in cultural management, diplomatic service, and academic teaching.

Life and career

Acting and writing

Khorolets was born in Kyiv. She made her acting debut in the film Partizanskaya iskra in 1957 at the age of nine. She graduated from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University in 1970. After graduating, she served in the National Writers' Union of Ukraine, and from 1973 to 1990 she was an actress at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater. Her first role there was in Olenka's The Dove Deer. Other roles included Anna in Ivan Franko's Stolen Happiness and Sophia in Ivan Karpenko-Kary's Untalanna.

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“Larysa Khorolets” enters the record as ukrainian actress. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Larysa, Khorolets and Ukrainian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948, 2022, 1973, 1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1948-08-25. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Larysa, Khorolets and Ukrainian.
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“Larysa Khorolets” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Larysa, Khorolets and Ukrainian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q12167639. VIAF identifies the subject as 68796952. The Library of Congress control number is nr92038435. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1948, 2022, 1973 and 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “Larysa Khorolets” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.