Vera Kuzmina
{{Short description|Soviet actor (1923–2021)}}
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| birth_place = Yanshikhovo-Norvashi, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
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| death_place = Cheboksary, Russia
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Vera Kuzminichna Kuzmina{{efn|name=spelling|{{bulleted list|{{langx|cv|Вера Кузьминична Кузьмина|{{transliteration|cv|Vera Kuzminichna Kuzmina}}}}|{{langx|ru|Вера Кузьминична Кузьмина|{{transliteration|ru|Vera Kuzminichna Kuzmina}}}}}}}} (16 November 1923{{snd}}22 October 2021) was a Soviet and Chuvash theatre actress and reader. She was decorated as a People's Artist of the USSR in 1980.
Biography
Kuzmina was born in the village of Yanshikhovo-Norvashi (now in the Yantikovsky District, Chuvashia, Russia) on 16 November 1923. During the Great Patriotic War (1941–1943), she worked near Smolensk, in the Moscow region on logging. Graduated from the Lunacharsky State Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS) in Moscow. The first teacher was the actor of the Moscow Art Theatre Mikhail Tarkhanov.
From 1947 she served at the Chuvash Academic Drama Theater named after K. V. Ivanov in Cheboksary, was a leading actress of the theatre. She played more than 100 roles on stage. For more than 60 years of work in theatre, she embodied images of Russian and foreign classics, as well as works of national Chuvash literature and drama on the Chuvash stage. Among the female roles, the images of mothers stand out in the performances: "Black Bread" by Ilbekov, "Bloody Wedding" by F. Garcia Lorca, "Siberian Division" and "The Cuckoo Cooks Everything" by Terentyev, "{{ill|Narspi (poem)|lt=Narspi|ru|3=Нарспи (поэма)}}" by Ivanov, "Aidar" by Osipov, "Blackberries Along the Fence" by Boris Cheendykov and many others.
Kuzmina worked on the radio; reading poems, short stories and novellas. She participated in radio and television productions. Her artistic reading is an example of Chuvash stage speech. Since 1952, she has participated in dubbing more than 300 films into the Chuvash language. She was for a number of years the chairman of the Chuvash branch of the {{ill|Soviet Cultural Foundation|ru|Российский фонд культуры}}.
In 1994 a documentary film "The Cycle of Time" was shot about the work of the actress according to the script by Alekseev ("Chuvashcinema" and the Kazan Newsreel Studio).{{cite web|url=https://rg.ru/2021/10/22/reg-pfo/umerla-narodnaia-artistka-sssr-vera-kuzmina.html|title=Умерла народная артистка СССР Вера Кузьмина|author=Олег Усков|publisher=Российская газета|date=22 October 2021}}
Personal life and death
Kuzmina was married to Pyotr Khuzangai (1907–1970), a Chuvash poet.{{cite web |url=https://drama21.ru/news/2021/10/24/Vera_Kuzjmina/ |title=Чувашия простилась с легендой чувашского народа, народной артисткой СССР Верой Кузьминой |language=ru |website=drama21.ru |publisher=Официальный сайт ЧГАДТ |date=24 October 2021 |access-date=2021-10-25 |archive-date=2021-10-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025160631/https://drama21.ru/news/2021/10/24/Vera_Kuzjmina/}} She had two children; one son and one daughter. Her son, Atner Khuzangai (born 1948), is a noted philologist and literary critic.
She died after a long illness in Shupashkar, on 22 October 2021, at the age of 97.
Awards and recognition
- People's Artist of the USSR in 1980
- {{ill|Laureate of the State Prize of the Chuvash ASSR|ru|Государственная премия Чувашской АССР имени К. В. Иванова}} (1991)
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV class (1999)Decree of the President of Russia dated 13 November 1999 No. 1504
- {{ill|Honorary Citizen of the Chuvash Republic|ru|Почётный гражданин Чувашской Республики}} (2003)
- Order of Honour (2014){{Cite web |url=http://pravo.gov.ru:8080/page.aspx?104009 |title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 28 мая 2014 года № 374|accessdate=2014-05-29 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529142843/http://pravo.gov.ru:8080/page.aspx?104009 |archivedate=2014-05-29}}
- Russian National Theater Award "Golden Mask" (2018)
Notes
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References
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External links
- [https://drama21.ru/page/Akteri/Narodnie_art/Kuzjmina_Vera_Ku/ Биография на сайте Чувашского ГАДТ им. Иванова]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304194308/http://sovch.chuvashia.com/?p=7383 Вера Кузьмина: Люблю путешествия и детективы] // Советская Чувашия. 20 November 2008
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Category:People from Chuvashia
Category:Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Category:Russian women activists
Category:20th-century Russian actresses
Category:21st-century Russian actresses
Category:People's Artists of the USSR
Category:People's Artists of the RSFSR
Category:Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Category:Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)
Category:Russian Academy of Theatre Arts alumni
Category:Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class