Nina Ruslanova

{{Short description|Russian actress (1945–2021)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}

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| name = Nina Ruslanova

| birth_date = {{birth date|1945|12|5|df=y}}

| birth_place = Bohodukhiv, Ukraine

| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|11|21|1945|12|5|df=yes}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russia

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| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1967–2021

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Nina Ivanovna Ruslanova ({{langx|ru| Нина Ивановна Русланова}}; 5 December 1945 – 21 November 2021) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.1tv.ru/doc/pro-zhizn-zamechatelnyh-lyudey/nina-ruslanova-gvozd-programmy-vypusk-ot-05122015 |title=«Нина Русланова. Гвоздь программы». Документальный фильм|lang=ru|website=1tv.ru|publisher=Первый канал (Россия)|date=2015-12-05|access-date=2021-11-24|archive-date=2021-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124003540/https://www.1tv.ru/doc/pro-zhizn-zamechatelnyh-lyudey/nina-ruslanova-gvozd-programmy-vypusk-ot-05122015}}

She was honored as a People's Artist of Russia (1998).[http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=067085 Награждена указом президента России № 80 от 26 января 1998 года] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101226052952/http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=067085 |date=26 December 2010 }}{{Cite web |url=http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/who-is-who/article/cult/cul2-147.htm |title=Нина Ивановна Русланова — Кто есть кто в культуре |access-date=12 December 2015 |archive-date=28 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091228011826/http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/who-is-who/article/cult/cul2-147.htm |url-status=dead }}

Early life

Ruslanova was orphaned at two months old in late winter 1945 in Bohodukhiv. Her surname (after Lidia Ruslanova) comes from the orphanages in the Kharkiv Oblast.Канал «Ностальгия», 16:00 GMT, 27 октября 2009 года She lived in five children's homes. She graduated from college with a degree as a construction plasterer. She then entered the Kharkiv Theatre Institute, where she studied for one term.

She moved to Moscow in 1969 and graduated Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. Thereafter Ruslanova worked in Vakhtangov Theater, and from 1985 to 1988 in Mayakovsky Theatre. She debuted in movies in 1967. Her first role was Nadezhda in Kira Muratova's film Brief Encounters.{{Cite web |url=http://www.kino-nika.com/nika-museum/cat_view/53-1987.html |title=Архив документов 1-й церемонии на оф. сайте. |access-date=12 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222122123/http://www.kino-nika.com/nika-museum/cat_view/53-1987.html |archive-date=22 December 2015 |url-status=dead }}

Death

Ruslanova died from a long illness complicated by COVID-19 and pneumonia on 21 November 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. She was 75.{{Cite web |url=https://en.newizv.ru/news/society/24-11-2021/they-ruined-nina-the-daughter-of-actress-ruslanova-told-the-truth-about-the-death-of-her-mother |title="They worked the ruin of Nina!" The daughter of actress Ruslanova told the truth about the death of her mother|access-date=5 February 2022}}

Selected filmography

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