Nina Sazonova

{{Short description|Russian actor (1917–2004)}}

{{family name hatnote|Afanasievna |Sazonova|lang=Eastern Slavic}}

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| name = Nina Sazonova

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| image = Nina Sazonova.jpg

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| birth_name =Nina Afanasievna Sazonova

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1917|1|7|df=y}}

| birth_place = Konstantinovo, Alexandrovsky Uyezd, Vladimir Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2004|3|1|1917|1|7}}

| death_place =Moscow, Russia

| occupation = actress

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| yearsactive =1934 — 2002

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Nina Afanasievna Sazonova ({{langx|ru|Ни́на Афана́сьевна Сазо́нова}}; 1917 — 2004) was a leading actress of the Soviet Army Theatre in Moscow.

The daughter of a peasant, she joined Aleksey Popov's theatre school at the age of 17.Nina Sazonova // Stars of the Russian Army Theatre (2002) — {{ISBN|5-7805-0948-4}} Popov went on to direct her in a number of productions at the Soviet Army Theatre. In the 1960s, she appeared in supporting roles in a slew of Soviet films and gained wider renown for her portrayal of a World War II survivor in the 1965 melodrama Womenfolk. Sazonova was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1977 and was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1987.[http://slovari.yandex.ru/+/%D0%91%D0%A1%D0%AD/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0+%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D0%90%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0 Nina Sazonova] in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia

Her later years were plagued by a series of horrible incidents, such as being severely beaten by her drunken son who proceeded to jump 11 stories out of an apartment window to his death.[http://izvestia.ru/news/284255 Квартирный вопрос Нины Сазоновой]