The soloist is Olga Melnikova. Vaganova Academy School in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) with Nureyev's former Kirov partner, Ninel Kurgapkina, teaching the upcoming graduate students. 6 of these girls were promoted to the Kirov ballet. The girl to the right of Vaganova's picture is Anna Polikarpova, the star in the Kirov Stone Flower video