- Sainkho, if somebody addresses you as Lyudmila, will you respond?
- Certainly not. I don't react to that name anymore. And the audience won't react either. If somebody hangs up a poster: Lyudmila Namtchylak, nobody will understand anything.
- Why did you pick precisely this name as your stage pseudonym?
- A woman of that name used to live in Kyzyl - Sainkho Darzhayevna Dorzhu. She was a dancer, and later, after she retired, she worked in the Union of Theatre artists. Charming, kind, woman. I liked both her and the combination of the sounds of her rare name.
And when it became necessary to have a mysterious, exotic-sounding name which would reflect what I was doing on the stage, that is what I chose. The process of getting used to my new name began in 1986: in Krasnodar, they gave me the certificate already as Sainkho.
