Olga Lopukhin-Krone

The daughter of Michael and Elisabeth Lopukhin, Olga was raised in Nyack, New York, earned her bachelor’s at Concordia University in Montreal (1981) and an MBA from Clarkson University (1992) in Potsdam. Olga moved to Lake Placid in 1982 to take a sales position at the famous Lake Placid Club Resort. She subsequently served as sales director at the Mirror Lake and moved on to assistant manager at the Hungry Trout in Wilmington.

Olga held three general manager positions: Whiteface Inn, Lake Placid Ramada Inn and completed her hospitality career at the Best Western Adirondack Inn. She also served as vice president of The Krone Corporation, a sports television and special events production company with her husband Donald Krone.

Olga held CHA (Chartered Hotel Administrator) certification, and was active in community activities, serving five years on the North Elba Joint Planning Board and the Lake Placid/Essex County Visitors Bureau Board of Directors. She was chairperson of the Visitors Bureau in 2003. Olga also served a term as executive director of the Franklin County Arts Council.

Fluent in Russian, Olga served as a translator for numerous World Cup and World Championship events held in Lake Placid and was active in assisting visiting coaches and athletes who trained in the Olympic Village, many of whom later immigrated and became U.S. citizens.

She followed her grandmother Sophie Koulomzin on the board of the non-profit Religious Books for Russia, which disseminated Russian Orthodox Church publications in the Soviet Union and Russia.

Olga, who relocated to Sarasota in 2019, is survived by Donald Krone, her husband of 38 years; her sisters Tatiana Lopukhin and Alexandra Lopukhin, both of whom reside in Valley Cottage, New York; and her brother Andrei Lopukhin of Bethel, Connecticut. She was predeceased by her parents Michael and Elisabeth Lopukhin.

A service was held Saturday, Jan. 24 at Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church, in Yonkers, New York and burial followed at Novo Diveevo Russian Orthodox Cemetery, in Nanuet, New York.