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[Natalia]

I notice that the Kirov-Mariinsky's website has been updated to included the most recently-hired soloists (the Ukraineans Nadezhda Gonchar & Leonid Sarafanov) but some favorites have been deleted???
We already know about Veronika Part's departure, to the ranks of ABT, last fall. However, I was shocked to not see the names of  Sofia Gumerova, Alexandra Iosifidi and Natalia Sologub on the soloist (or principals) roster. I know that Gumerova danced last week's 'Swan Lake' so she could not have resigned THAT quickly!
Perhaps it is just a mistake of the webmaster?

On a similar note:  Matvienko seems to be back on the roster??? I thought that he had left a few months ago. Maybe I am hallucinating because of the freezing temperatures here. Back to my hot chocolate & goose-down comforter.

[glebb]

So good to see you posting from Moscow Jeannie!

C Novi Godom!

Give my regards to Kransniya Ploshad and stay tiplo!

[Marc Haegeman]

No trace of Osmolkina either. I wouldn't take that list too literal, Jeannie, it's full of oddities. Besides, nothing to worry, in the English version all our favourites are still there, even Part

[Natalia]

Thanks, Marc & Glebb!  I did not even look in the English; then again, that one is usually a few steps behind the Russian.

[Saveta]

Marc, if you think Ekaterina Osmolkina, she is listed as "coryphée" on the Russian language portion of the site

[Marc Haegeman]

That's right. Thank you, Saveta!
Apparently the coryphées can only be accessed through the first page of the roster, if you use the "dalee" ("further") link, you jump over them.