Svetlana Penkina graduated from the Minsk Theater and Art Institute. She got the first taste of success for her role of Katya Bulavina in the Soviet thirteen-episode television drama series
The Road to Calvary () based on the trilogy
The Road to Calvary () by
Aleksey Tolstoy. The role was her diploma work at the Minsk Theater Institute. While working on the character, the young actress co-starred in two films. In the movie
Dust in the Sun () she played Anna Mikhailovna, an associate of Lithuanian revolutionary Joseph Vareikis. In
The Color of Gold () she appeared in one of the starring roles, Zoya. In 1982, she played Lida in
The Solar Wind (). In 1985, she had the role of secretary Vika in
For The Coming Age, the adaptation of the novel by Soviet writer Georgiy Markov. Soon after that, she retired from movie roles. ==Personal life==