Svetlana Dzantemirovna Adyrkhaeva[a] (12 May 1938 – 27 August 2023) was a Soviet and Russian Ossetian ballerina.
She received ballet training at the Leningrad State Choreographic Institute and graduated from there in 1955.
Three years later she danced Odette-Odile (in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake) and won first prize for it.
[3] From 1978 to 1981 she was member of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts from which she graduated in 1980 and became a teacher there a year later.
From 1995 to 2001 she was a teacher at the Dance Academy of the New Humanitarian University of Natalia Nesterova and then held the same position at the Bolshoi Theater from 2001.