Btw, she is brilliant theatre actress and works in Mark Zakharov’s The Lenkom Theatre.

Because you are interested in social history of Russia (watching the movies), I recommend her two films:

1. The pre-revolutionary melodrama “Vassa” (1983) based on Maxim Gorky’s play – where she playes a magnate of factories. Very psychological!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086527/
video fragment – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OK-qCv1N0U
(seems, no Eng. subs)

2. “Proshu slova (I wish to speak)” (1975)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073584/
video fragment – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dII0A9fhppo
(seems, no Eng. subs)

Here is a quote from the review:

“In Proshu slova (1975) Churikova played Yelizaveta Uvarova, an idealist and hard working council official in a provincial Russian town, eager to improve the poor living conditions in the worker’s quarters. Uvarova’s contradictions were representative of the problems faced by what has been described by critics as “a Soviet superwoman,” one who is in control of her career and ambitions but who nonetheless remains lonely and unhappy in her personal life. The film, which was one of the Russian examples of what in an Eastern European context was known as a cinema of moral anxiety, introduced a new kind of critical realist reflection on the Soviet socialist reality.

Read more: http://www.filmreference.com/Actors-and-Actresses-Ca-Co/Churikova-Inna.html#ixzz0X2Wg2cPS

both movies direcred by Gleb Panfilov, her husband