The daughter of famed director Leonid Gaidai, Oksana Gaidai, has been admitted to the surgical department of a Moscow clinic on a gallstone disease diagnosis. A Telegram channel reported the development, noting that she is currently in a single room and is scheduled for surgery in the near future. The channel added that doctors expect Gaidai, aged 67, to be discharged within several days, though other specifics about her condition were not disclosed. Source: Telegram channel report
Oksana Gaidai is the only daughter from the marriage of Leonid Gaidai, a celebrated Soviet and Russian cinematographer, and Nina Grebeshkova, who is honored as an Artist of the Russian Federation. The couple shared a long life together, spanning four decades, before Grebeshkova reflected on their partnership. Source: family context report
Born in 1957, Oksana has pursued a career as an economist. Early in life she appeared alongside her family in the short film “On the Road,” at the age of five, but she did not follow her parents into cinema as a profession. During her university years, she met her future husband, and after graduation the couple moved to Malaysia. While abroad, Gaidai welcomed a daughter named Olga Khudyakova, who later appeared briefly in her grandfather’s film “Private Detective, or Cooperation Operation.” Source: biographical notes
In related developments, a former family friend, Svetlana Svetlichnaya, dismissed circulating rumors that there was any forced hospitalization involved in the reported events. The denial aligns with public interest in privacy around the family during a sensitive health moment. Source: social circle denial