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Lidiya Nikolaevna Smirnova
Лидия Смирнова
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13 February 1915 - 25 July 2007
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Lydia Smirnova is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actress, People's Artist of the USSR. The future actress was born on February 13, 1913 in Tobolsk, where she spent all her childhood. After graduation, she moved to Moscow to live with her aunt, starting to study at the choreographic school at the Bolshoi Theatre. Without thinking about the career of an actress, she entered the Aviation Institute. In the second year of the Institute came to the theater school. The application was submitted
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Lydia Smirnova is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actress, People's Artist of the USSR. The future actress was born on February 13, 1913 in Tobolsk, where she spent all her childhood. After graduation, she moved to Moscow to live with her aunt, starting to study at the choreographic school at the Bolshoi Theatre. Without thinking about the career of an actress, she entered the Aviation Institute. In the second year of the Institute came to the theater school. The application was submitted simultaneously to the Vakhtangov School, the school at the Chamber Theatre, and the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography. And everywhere it was accepted. She chose the school at the Chamber Theatre, as it was the closest to the house. During their studies at Tairov school, representatives from film studios often visited them and invited students to participate in the filming. When they needed a blue-eyed blonde, the teachers pointed to Smirnova, but claimed it extremely rarely.
From 1940 to 1945 she was an actress of the Mosfilm film studio, and from the spring of 1945 she was an actress of the Mosfilm Theatre Studio.
Debut, which brought her love and recognition of millions of ordinary people, was her role Shurochka in the film.
"My Love" .
The success that came to her so quickly was encouraging. But the war destroyed all of her plans. At the very beginning of the war, comrades in the film studio voluntarily went to the front: directors, artists, artists, cameramen. Her husband Sergey Dobrushin also went to the front, although as a journalist he had reservations. Exactly a month later he died at Smolensk. The second husband of Lydia Smirnova was a famous Soviet cameraman – Vladimir Rapoport. In 1952 the actress became a member of the CPSU.
People’s Artist of the USSR Lidia Nikolaevna Smirnova was and remains an actress of several generations. It is remembered and loved by the audience of the older generation, it is revered by modern film lovers.
Smirnova was able to prove to everyone that she can cope with both comic and negative roles - the role of a matchmaker in the film.
"Balzaminov's Marriage" The role of Duska's saleswoman in
Village Detective , from a series of films about the village district Aniskin.
Lydia Smirnova died on July 25, 2007 in Moscow, she is buried in the Vvedensky cemetery.