Tamara Tchinarova

Tamara Tchinarova Finch
Tchinarova in the ballet Les Presages, Sydney, between 6 Dec. 1936 & Jan. 1939 - studio photograph by Max Dupain
Born	Tamara Yevsevievna Rekemchuk Тамара Евсевиевна Рекемчук 1919 (age 97–98) Cetatea Albă, Kingdom of Romania
Spouse(s)	Peter Finch (m. 1943; div. 1959)
Former groups	Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Kirsova Ballet, Polish-Australian Ballet, Borovansky Ballet

Tamara Tchinarova Finch (also tr. Chinarova; born Tamara Rekemchuk, 1919), is a retired ballet dancer of Armenian, Georgian and Ukrainian descent. During the 1940s Tchinarova contributed significantly to the development of fledgling Australian dance companies, including the Kirsova Ballet and the Borovansky Ballet. After retiring from dancing, she worked as a Russian/English interpreter for touring ballet companies, including the Australian Ballet, and as a dance writer.

She was born Tamara Yevsevievna Rekemchuk (Russian: Тама́ра Евсевиевна Рекемчу́к) in 1919 in Cetatea Albă, Bessarabia. The territory became part of the Kingdom of Romania in 1918 after World War I, but has been part of Ukraine since World War II.

Her maternal grandfather, Kristapor Chinaryan, was an Armenian landowner who survived the Hamidian massacres by the Ottoman Empire. In 1895, Chinaryan fled to Bessarabia, where he adopted the Russified surname of Chinarov. He married a Ukrainian woman and eventually became extremely wealthy, owning three vineyards, three houses and a hotel. Her grandfather, Tchinarova Finch wrote, "could achieve success in business even on a desert island. He was practical, quick, receptive, generous, envied and loved." During the Kishinev pogroms, he sheltered Jewish families in his basements.