1938) and the first child of Dmitri Shostakovich and physicist Nina Vasilyevna Varzar, who married on 13 May 1932.
Soon after the death of her mother Nina Vasilyevna Varzar (born in 1909) on 4 December 1954, Galina Shostakovich enrolled in Biology at the Moscow University where she graduated in 1959.
In 1959 she married Yevgeniy Borisovich Chukovsky (1937–1997), a cinematographer and cameraman.
He was the grandson of author and children's poet Korney Chukovsky and nephew of Lidiya Chukovskaya.
[4] She is interviewed in the documentary from 1997 The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin by Larry Weinstein released on 10 May 2003.