Vera Kuzmina
Vera Kuzmina | |
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| Born | Vera Kuzminichna Kuzmina 16 November 1923 |
| Died | 22 October 2021 (aged 97) |
| Occupation | Actress, reader |
| Years active | 1947–2021 |
| Other political affiliations | Awards: People's Artist of the USSR (1980), People's Artist of the RSFSR (1975), Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1968), Honored Artist of the Chuvash ASSR (1958), The State Prize of the Chuvash ASSR named after K. V. Ivanov (1991), Honorary Citizen of the Chuvash Republic (2003) |
Vera Kuzminichna Kuzmina (16 November 1923 — 22 October 2021) was a Soviet and Russian/Chuvash theatre actress and master of artistic expression (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 Theater M. M. 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 N. F. Ilbekov, "Bloody Wedding" by F. Garcia Lorca, "Siberian Division" and "The Cuckoo Cooks Everything" by N. T. Terentyev, "Narspi" by K. V. Ivanov, "Aidar" by P. N. Osipov, "Blackberries along the Fence" by B. B. Chindykov 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 Soviet Cultural Foundation.
In 1994, a documentary film "The Cycle of Time" was shot about the work of the actress according to the script by V. N. Alekseev ("Chuvashcinema" and the Kazan Newsreel Studio).[1]
Personal life and death[]
Kuzmina was married to Pyotr Khuzangai (1907–1970), a Chuvash poet. 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.[2]
Awards and recognition[]
- People's Artist of the USSR in 1980.
- Laureate of the State Prize of the Chuvash ASSR (1991)
- Honorary Citizen of the Chuvash Republic (2003)
- Russian National Theater Award "Golden Mask" (2018)
References[]
- ^ Олег Усков (2021-10-22). "Умерла народная артистка СССР Вера Кузьмина". Российская газета.
- ^ Олег Усков (2021-10-22). "Умерла народная артистка СССР Вера Кузьмина". rg.ru (in Russian). Российская газета. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
External links[]
- 1923 births
- 2021 deaths
- 20th-century actresses
- 21st-century actresses
- People from Chuvashia
- People's Artists of the USSR
- People's Artists of the RSFSR
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Soviet activists
- Chuvash people
- Soviet actresses
- Russian activists
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Spoken word artists