Tamara Yanko (1912–1988) was a Soviet opera singer (mezzo-soprano) and music teacher. She was born on 7 July 1912 in Zhmerynka, then in Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire, now in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.
Yanko studied vocal music at the Odesa Music Technical School and then, from 1934 to 1939, attended the Moscow Conservatory named after Pyotr Tchaikovsky, where she studied singing with Ksenia Dorliak. From 1938 until 1977 she was a soloist of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Musical Theatre. She prepared many of her roles under the guidance of Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko and also appeared in concerts.
In 1954, Yanko began teaching solo singing at GITIS. She became an associate professor in 1977 and a professor in 1983. She was the first performer of Matvey Blanter and Mikhail Isakovsky's song “Katyusha.”
Her repertoire included Maria Kosova in Tikhon Khrennikov's Into the Storm, Euphrosyne in Dmitry Kabalevsky's The Taras Family, the Duenna in Sergei Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery, and Mokeikha in Sergei Slonimsky's Virineya. She also sang Lyubasha in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride, Olga and Filippyevna in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Perichole in Jacques Offenbach's La Périchole, Nicklausse in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, and Akhrosimova in Prokofiev's War and Peace.
Yanko received a special prize at the First All-Union Competition of Vocalists in 1939 for the best performance of works by Soviet composers. In 1952 she was awarded the second-degree Stalin Prize for singing Euphrosyne in The Taras Family, and in 1977 she was named People's Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. She died in Moscow on 2 February 1988 and was buried in Kuntsevo Cemetery.