Question: Julia Lezhneva studied with the People's Artist of the USSR, who was of what range?

Context articles: Valery Gavrilin
Arthur Eisen
Elena Obraztsova
People's Artist of the USSR
Piotr Belousov
Julia Lezhneva
Aleksandra Yablochkina
Boris Markov
Ludmila Semenyaka
Mark Fradkin

Valery Aleksandrovich Gavrilin (Russian: Валерий Александрович Гаврилин , (17 August 1939 – 28 January 1999) was a Russian composer, Honoured Artist of Russia, People's Artist of the USSR and a recipient of the USSR State Prize.
Arthur Arturovich Eisen (Russian: Артур Артурович Эйзен), bass-baritone soloist.
 (b.Moscow 8 June 1927; d.Moscow 26 February 2008).
 Soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre, Honoured Artist of Russia (1956), Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971), People's Artist of the USSR (1976), Order of Friendship of Peoples (1988).
 He was born into a family of Latvian revolutionaries, and his family was also musical; his father was a violinist.
 After leaving school in 1944 he joined the Shchukin Theatre School at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre.
 He studied with future stars, and his singing teacher had been famous in the past: N.Popovoy-Narutovich.
 He left college in 1948 and joined a youth literary reading group.
 On a performing tour in the Ukraine he sang, making their tour a hit.
 Back in Moscow he spent a year at Gnessin State Musical College.
 He then attended Moscow Conservatory and in 1955, a year before graduating, he won the gold medal at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Warsaw.
Elena Vasiliyevna Obraztsova (Russian: Елена Васильевна Образцова ; 7 July 1939 – 12 January 2015) was a Russian mezzo-soprano.
 People's Artist of the USSR (1976).
People's Artist of the USSR (Russian: Наро́дный арти́ст СССР , "Narodný artist SSSR"), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union.
Piotr Petrovich Belousov (Russian: Пё́тр Петро́вич Белоу́сов ; May 3, 1912, Berdyansk, Russian Empire – 1989, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet, Russian painter, graphic artist, art teacher, professor of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, People's Artist of USSR, Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, who lived and worked in Leningrad.
 He was regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, being most famous for his portraits and historical paintings.
Julia Lezhneva (Russian: Юлия Михайловна Лежнева) (born December 5, 1989) is a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist, specialising in soprano and coloratura mezzo-soprano material of the 18th and early 19th century.
 She studied with Tamara Cherkasova, Irina Zhurina, Elena Obraztsova, Dennis O'Neill and Yvonne Kenny.
Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Yablochkina (Александра Александровна Яблочкина; November 3, 1866 - March 20, 1964) was a leading actress of the Maly Theatre in Moscow for more than 75 years.
 She studied acting under her father before joining the Korsh Theatre troupe in 1886.
 Two years later, she moved to the Maly, where she worked with Maria Yermolova and Alexander Yuzhin.
 Yablochkina specialized in comedy roles and was renowned for the purity of her enunciation.
 In 1915, she was selected to lead the Russian theatrical society.
 In 1937, she became one of the first individuals to be awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR.
 In 1943, she was awarded the USSR State Prize.
 She wrote two volumes of memoirs, "My Life in Theatre" (1953) and "75 Years in Theatre" (1960).
Boris Markov (March 7, 1924, village Khitekushkan' (now Tautovskoye Rural Settlement, Alikovsky District, Chuvash Republic) Chuvash AO, USSR - March 25, 1977, Moscow, USSR) - Soviet, Chuvash actor and theater director, People Artist of the Russia, People Artist of the Chuvash Republic, the founder and first director of the Chuvash State Ballet&Opera Theatre.
Ludmila Semenyaka (Russian: Людмила Семеняка, born 16 January 1952 ) is a Soviet ballerina, born in Leningrad.
 She studied at the Vaganova School as a pupil of .
 She joined the Kirov Ballet in 1970 and later the Bolshoi Ballet in 1972, where she was a prima ballerina.
 She was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1986 and received the USSR State Prize.
Mark Grigoryevich Fradkin (Марк Григорьевич Фрадкин, May 4, 1914 in Vitebsk, Russian Empire, now Belarus – April 4, 1990 in Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet composer, author of numerous popular songs (many of which were co-written with poet Yevgeny Dolmatovsky) and musical scores for forty films.
 In 1979, Mark Fradkin received the USSR State Prize and, in 1985, he was granted the status of the People’s Artist of the USSR.