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Sculptress, teacher. Born in the Ukrainian city of Ekaterinoslav (1894) in the family of Russian writer Yury Sandomirsky (circa 1870–1927). Studied at the Mikhail Bernstein and Leonid Sherwood School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, under Robert Bach at the Imperial Academy of Arts (occasional student until 1916) and under Sergei Volnukhin and Sergei Konyonkov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture/State Free Art Studios/VKhUTEMAS (1916–20). Member of the Society of Russian Sculptors. Headed the State Art Studios in Orenburg, Samarkand and Bukhara (1920s). Died in Moscow (1974). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1914).