Complex sentence: Tatyana Ivanovna Shmyga (born December 31,1928, Moscow, Soviet Union--died February 3,2011) was a Russian operetta singer and film actress and a People's Artist of the USSR (1978).
Split into simpler sentences: Tatyana Ivanovna Shmyga (born December 31,1928, Moscow, Soviet Union--died February 3,2011) was a Soviet-born Russian operetta/musical theatre performer. She was a People's Artist of the USSR (1978).