Irina Aleksandrovna Kolpakova (Russian: Ирина Александровна Колпакова; born 22 May 1933)[1][2] is a Soviet and Russian ballerina, choreographer and pedagogue.
People's Artist of the USSR (1965) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1983).
[1] In the 1990s, she worked for several seasons as choreographer and coach at the American Ballet Theatre in New York City.
She is married to the noted ballet dancer Vladilen Semyonov, also a People's Artist of the USSR.
They live in the Tolstoy House building in Saint Petersburg.