Lidiya Smirnova

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| birth_name = Lidiya Nikolayevna Smirnova

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1915|02|13}}

| birth_place = Menzelinsk, Ufa Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2007|07|25|1915|02|13}}

| death_place = Zelenograd, Russia[http://mosenc.ru/encyclopedia?task=core.view&id=8628 Лица Москвы. Московская энциклопедия] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304123948/http://mosenc.ru/encyclopedia?task=core.view&id=8628 |date=2016-03-04 }}

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| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1934–2005

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| awards = People's Artist of the USSR (1974)

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Lidiya Nikolayevna Smirnova ({{langx|ru|Ли́дия Никола́евна Смирно́ва}}; 13 February 1915 – 25 July 2007)[http://www.woman55plus.ru/ru/kultura/.view/id/178/ Лидия Николаевна СМИРНОВА — памяти актрисы — Клуб женщин младшего пенсионного возраста] was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1974). Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1952.

Filmography

The New Moscow (1938) as a girl (uncredited)
My Love (1940) as Shura
Lad from Our Town (1942) as Varya Lukonina-Burmina
She Defends the Motherland (1943) as Fenya
They Have a Motherland (1949) as orphanage teacher Smayda
The Miners of Donetsk (1951) as Vera Nikolayevna, Trofimenko's wife
Silvery Dust (1953) as Flossie Bate, prostitute
Least We Forget (1954) as Anna Dashenko
Michman Panin (1960) as Grigoryev's wife
Silence (1963) as Serafima Ignatyevna Bykova
It Happened at the Police Station (1963) as Zubareva, professor's wife
Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964) as doctor
Balzaminov's Marriage (1964) as Akulina Gavrilovna Krasavina, matchmaker
Village Detective (1969) as Yevdokiya Mironovna Pronina, rural shop clerk
Ilf and Petrov Rode a Tram (1972) as handler and artistic director of circus
Rudin (1977) as Darya Mikhailovna Lasunskaya
Carnival (1981) as Chairman of the inspection board
Premonition of Love (1982) as Marya Georgiyevna

Awards and honors

Two Orders of the Badge of Honour (one in 1950)
Stalin Prize, 3rd class (1951) – for her portrayal of Smayda in They Have a Motherland (1949)
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1955)
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1965)
People's Artist of the USSR (1974){{Cite web |url=http://www.unikino.ru/images/stories/archive/bd4/sk-238.pdf |title=Прощание: Лидия Смирнова // Газета "СК-новости", № 8 (238) от 2.08.2007 — стр. 17 |access-date=2016-01-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208054458/http://www.unikino.ru/images/stories/archive/bd4/sk-238.pdf |archive-date=2015-12-08 |url-status=dead }}
Order of the October Revolution (1985)
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (1995)
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (2000)
Order of Friendship (2005)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour

References

External links

{{IMDb name|0807074}}
[https://archive.today/20130419142912/http://eternaltown.com.ua/content/view/5624/2/1/1/ Лидия Смирнова, биография в изложении Фёдора Раззакова]{{cbignore}}

Category:1915 births

Category:2007 deaths

Category:20th-century Russian actresses

Category:People from Menzelinsky Uyezd

Category:People from Tatarstan

Category:Academicians of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia

Category:Communist Party of the Soviet Union members

Category:Members of the Central Committee of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Category:Deputies of Mossoviet

Category:Honored Artists of the RSFSR

Category:People's Artists of the RSFSR

Category:People's Artists of the USSR