Ballet dancers

Fact sheet and materials related to Russian ballet dancers Valery and Galina Panov. Valery and his wife Galina performed at the Kirov ballet in Leningrad until they applied for exit visas to Israel in 1972. They were expelled from the Kirov, imprisoned briefly, and allowed to leave Russia for Israel in 1974.

Informal photograph of Kirov Ballet star Natalia Makarova, who defected to the West in 1970, as she streches on board the Bolshoi Express train while on a trip through Russia; this is a publicity photograph for the PBS special ''St. Petersburg to Tashkent,'' part of the series ''Great Railway Journeys II.''

Photographs of Galina Mezentseva and Sergey Berezhnoy, principle dancers for the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, Russia, performing in ''Swan Lake.''

Photograph of the Leningrad Kirov Ballet Company ensemble performing in ''Swan Lake.''

Photographs of Russian ballet dancer Natalia Makarova performing in various dances.

Two photos on one page: Galina Mezentseva (left) and Sergey Berezhnoy (right), both of the Leningrad Kirov Ballet, perform in ''Swan Lake,'' which will be featured in a public television special.

Yelena Yevteyeva and John Markovsky, appearing as Odette and Siegfried respectively, perform with the Leningrad Kirov Ballet ensemble in ''Swan Lake.''

Yelena Yevteyeva, appearing as Odette, performs with the Leningrad Kirov Ballet ensemble in ''Swan Lake.''