Marianna Yarovskaya is a Russian-American documentary filmmaker who is the director and producer of the 2018 Academy Award short-listed documentary film Women of the Gulag[1][2][3][4] based on the book Women of the Gulag: Stories of Five Remarkable Lives by Paul Roderick Gregory (2013).

Yarovskaya is the daughter of Russian actor and director Marianna Yablonskaya and a rocket scientist, Arkady Yarovsky.

[9] Her documentary film Holy Warriors,[10][11] a study of soldiers who found religion, has played in 35 countries worldwide.

Yarovskaya worked in the research department on Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2001), and on award-winning feature documentaries Countdown to Zero (2010), Samsara (2012), Spirit of the Marathon II (2013), Last Days in Vietnam (2014), Vessel (2014), Merchants of Doubt (2014), Red Army (2014), Swift Current (2016), Betting on Zero (2016), Boston (2017), Blood Road (2017), "Big Lies" (2018), "Skid Row Marathon" (2019), "Oleg" (2021), and Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me (2022).

[15] It won festivals in Iceland, US/California, South Korea, Hong Kong, France, Canada, Croatia, and Russia.