Svetlana afanasievna svetlichnaya was born on may 15, 1940 in leninakan (now gyumri) in armenia. her father afanasy mikhailovich svetlichny served in smersh during the war, participated in special operations of military intelligence, served as a lieutenant colonel, had many orders[2], the family often moved. svetlana went to school in akhtyrka, sumy region, graduated from school in sovetsk, kaliningrad region, in 1958, svetlana's father resigned, and the family settled in melitopol[3]. in the same year, largely thanks to the persistence of the mother maria fiodorovna svetlichny[4], svetlana managed to do to vgik on the course by mikhail romm.
