Gundareva enrolled into the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and joined the Katin-Yartsev's group, with classmates like Konstantin Raikin, Yuri Bogatyryov and Natalya Varley.
Natalya Petrusyova | Natalya Gorbanevskaya | Natalya Andrejchenko | Natalya Varley | Natalya Radina | Natalya Rozhdestvenskaya | Natalya Pechonkina | Natalya Pasichnyk | Natalya Misyulya | Natalya Lisovskaya | Natalya Gundareva |
Among Basilashvili’s film partners were such actors as Alisa Freindlich, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Nikita Mikhalkov, Nonna Mordyukova, Evgeni Leonov, and Natalya Gundareva, among many other Soviet/Russian film actors.