Aleksandra Evgenievna Ivanes was born on 2 July 1957 in
Kaliningrad. She derived her stage name Aleksandra Yakovleva from the surname of her maternal grandfather. As a child she was taught dancing; she later studied violin at a music school. In 1978 she graduated from the
Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema. In the Soviet
disaster film Air Crew (1979), she performed with
Leonid Filatov the first erotic scene in a mainstream domestic Soviet film. From 1997, she served as Head of quality management and staff service at
Airport Pulkovo and then as deputy chief of management and marketing on the
October Railway. She took part in December 2009 launch of the high-speed "Sapsan" trains on the route
Moscow —
St. Petersburg. At her initiative, a coach with a restaurant and a bar were included in the service. Later, she held the position of Deputy Director General of the Directorate-speed communications of JSC "
Russian Railways" (KL net). Having returned to the area on 7 June 2012, she was elected chairman of the Kaliningrad regional branch of the Russian political party "
Yabloko". In April 2016, Yakovleva returned to acting with the St. Petersburg Maly Theatre Comedy in a leading role as "Bernadette", the maid. The remake of
Flight Crew was released in 2017, repeating the name and the main theme of the 1979 film. Yakovleva played Tamara again, this time as a big official in the world of aviation. ==Death==