Lidiya Smirnova Explained

Lidiya Smirnova
Birth Name:	Lidiya Nikolayevna Smirnova
Birth Date:	1915 2, df=y
Birth Place:	Menzelinsk, Ufa Governorate, Russian Empire
Death Place:	Zelenograd, Russia^[1]
Occupation:	Actress
Yearsactive:	1934–2005
Awards:	People's Artist of the USSR (1974)

Lidiya Nikolayevna Smirnova (ru|Ли́дия Никола́евна Смирно́ва; 13 February 1915 – 25 July 2007)^[2] 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)^[3]
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

External links

- Лидия Смирнова, биография в изложении Фёдора Раззакова

Notes and References

http://mosenc.ru/encyclopedia?task=core.view&id=8628 Лица Москвы. Московская энциклопедия
http://www.woman55plus.ru/ru/kultura/.view/id/178/ Лидия Николаевна СМИРНОВА — памяти актрисы — Клуб женщин младшего пенсионного возраста
Web site: Прощание: Лидия Смирнова // Газета "СК-новости", № 8 (238) от 2.08.2007 — стр. 17 . 2016-01-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151208054458/http://www.unikino.ru/images/stories/archive/bd4/sk-238.pdf . 2015-12-08 . dead .