People's Artists of Theater and Cinema of the USSR. People's Artists of the USSR

Also in tsarist Russia for creative workers of state theaters there were honorary titles- "Honored Artist of the Imperial Theaters" and "Soloist of His Imperial Majesty". After the revolution, they were abolished and a new one was introduced - "People's Artist of the Republic." The first People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1918 was former soloist His Imperial Majesty Fyodor Chaliapin. The Union republics followed the example of Russia and introduced the corresponding titles. In 1936, a rigid hierarchy was built in all spheres of life, and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee established the stages of recognition of acting creativity.

The first People's Artists of the USSR were the founders and leading actors of the Moscow Art Theater - Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Ivan Moskvin and Vasily Kachalov, as well as the singer of the Bolshoi Antonina Nezhdanova.

Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky ( real name- Alekseev; January 5 (17), 1863, Moscow - August 7, 1938, Moscow) - Russian theater director, actor and teacher, theater reformer. The creator of the famous acting system, which for 100 years has been very popular in Russia and in the world. People's Artist of the USSR (1936)

Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (December 11 (23), 1858, Ozurgeti, Kutaisi province - April 25, 1943, Moscow) - Russian and Soviet theater director, teacher, playwright, writer, theater critic and theatrical figure; one of the founders of the Moscow Art Theater. People's Artist of the USSR (1936).

Antonina Vasilievna Nezhdanova June 4 (16), 1873, p. Krivaya Balka, near Odessa - June 26, 1950, Moscow) - Russian Opera singer(lyric-coloratura soprano), teacher. People's Artist USSR (1936). Doctor of Arts (1944)

Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov, real name Shverubovich (1875-1948) - Russian and Soviet theater actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1936)

People's Artist of the USSR could only become artists who already had the title of Honored, then People's Artist of the Autonomous, then Union Republic. According to an unspoken rule, they became honored artists upon reaching 40 years old, and people's artists of the USSR - 60. People's artists were awarded a diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and Chest sign. They were entitled to an increased salary, a 50% discount on utility bills, a company car and a state dacha, additional living space, and, by special decision, treatment at the 4th Main Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Health, and subsequently a pension of federal and republican significance. During the tour, people's artists of the USSR were entitled to a sleeping car and a suite in a hotel.

Ivan Mikhailovich Moskvin (June 6 (18), 1874, Moscow - February 16, 1946, Moscow) - Russian Soviet actor, theater director, master artistic word(reader). People's Artist of the USSR (1936).

It was easier for members of the CPSU to get the title. However, the scale of talent and genuine people's love more than once defeated party leaders - folk artists USSR F. Ranevskaya and A. Raikin, I. Moiseev and M. Plisetskaya, G. Tovstonogov and M. Babanova were non-partisan.

... The penultimate was the singer Alla Pugacheva. The last - the actor of the Moscow "Lenkom" Oleg Yankovsky. They say that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed the decree just an hour before he announced to the people that the USSR no longer exists.

Ekaterina Pavlovna Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya (1874-1951) - Russian and Soviet theater and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1936).

Maria Mikhailovna Blumenthal-Tamarina (July 16, 1859, St. Petersburg - October 16, 1938, Moscow) - Russian theater and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1936).

Boris Vasilievich Shchukin (1894-1939) - Soviet theater and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1936)

Maria Ivanovna Litvinenko-Wolgemut (1892 - 1966) - Soviet Ukrainian opera singer (lyric-dramatic soprano), actress, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1936)

Panas (Afanasy) Karpovich Saksagansky (real name - Tobilevich; 1859-1940) - Ukrainian and Soviet actor, theater director, playwright and teacher of the school of Mark Kropyvnytsky, a coryphaeus of the Ukrainian domestic theater. People's Artist of the USSR (1936)

Kulyash (Gulbahram) Zhasynovna Baiseitova (kaz. Kulash Zhasynkyzy Baiseitova (January 12, 1912, Verny, Turkestan Governor-General, Russian empire- June 6, 1957, Moscow, USSR) - an outstanding Soviet opera singer (lyric-coloratura soprano), dramatic actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1936)

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (April 1, 1883, Plakhino village, Ryazan province - July 8, 1946, Berlin) - Soviet Russian composer, choral conductor, choirmaster, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1937), Major General (1943). The author of the music of the Anthem of the USSR, and the Anthem of the Russian Federation set to the same melody.

Alla Konstantinovna Tarasova (1898-1973) - Soviet theater and film actress. Laureate of five Stalin Prizes(1941, 1946 - twice, 1947, 1949). Hero Socialist Labor(1973), People's Artist of the USSR (1937)

Nikolai Pavlovich Khmelev (July 28 (August 10), 1901, Sormovo - November 1, 1945, Moscow) - Soviet actor, director. People's Artist of the USSR (1937). Laureate of three Stalin Prizes of the first degree (1941, 1942, 1946 - posthumously)

Mikhail Mikhailovich Tarkhanov (real name - Moskvin) (September 7 (19), 1877 - 1948) - Russian and Soviet theater and film actor, director, teacher, doctor of art history (1939). People's Artist of the USSR (1937).

Nadezhda Andreevna Obukhova (1886-1961) - Russian Soviet opera singer (mezzo-soprano). Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1943). People's Artist of the USSR (1937)

Olga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhova (September 9 (21), 1868, Glazov - March 22, 1959, Moscow) - Russian and Soviet actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1937). Laureate of the Stalin Prize (1943). Wife of A.P. Chekhov.

Alexander Alekseevich Ostuzhev (real name - Pozharov; 1874 - 1953) - Russian and Soviet actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1937)

Vera Nikolaevna Pashennaya (1887-1962) - Russian and Soviet theater and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1937)

Prov Mikhailovich Sadovsky (junior) (1874-1947) - Russian and Soviet actor, theater director. People's Artist of the USSR (1937)

Alexandra Alexandrovna Yablochkina (1866-1964) - Russian and Soviet theater actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1937), laureate of the Stalin Prize (1943), three times holder of the Order of Lenin

Reinhold Moritsevich Gliere (name at birth - Reinhold Ernest Gliere) (January 11, 1875 (December 30, 1874) - June 23, 1956) - Soviet composer, conductor, teacher, musical and public figure. People's Artist of the USSR (1938)

Solomon Mikhailovich Mikhoels (Yiddish שלמה מיכאָעלס, Shloyme Mikhoels; real name Vovsi; 1890-1948) - Soviet Jewish theater actor and director, teacher, public and political figure. People's Artist of the USSR (1939). Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1946). Killed by the MGB. The murder is disguised as a traffic accident.

Haykanush Bagdasarovna (Anna Borisovna) Danielyan (Armenian Հայկանուշ Դանիյելյան; 1893-1958) - Armenian Soviet singer(lyric-coloratura soprano). People's Artist of the USSR (1939)

Ivan Semyonovich Kozlovsky (March 11 (24), 1900, Maryanovka village, Kyiv province - December 21, 1993, Moscow) - Soviet opera and chamber singer ( lyric tenor), producer. People's Artist of the USSR (1940).

Evdokia Dmitrievna Turchaninova (1870-1963) - Russian and Soviet theater actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1943).

Ruben Nikolaevich Simonov (Arm. Ռուբեն Նիկողայոսի Սիմոնյանց; 1899-1968) - Soviet Russian actor, theater and film director, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1946).

Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev ( pseudonym— Igor Glebov; 1884 - 1949) - Russian Soviet composer, musicologist, musical critic, teacher. Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1943), People's Artist of the USSR (1946)

Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov (1903-1966) - an outstanding Soviet theater and film actor.
People's Artist of the USSR (1947). Winner of the Lenin Prize (1964) and five Stalin Prizes (1941, 1946, 1950, 1951 - twice).

Grigory Vasilievich Alexandrov (real name Mormonenko; 1903-1983), Soviet Russian film director, actor, screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1948)

Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky (June 30, 1894, Moscow - April 5, 1977, Moscow) - Soviet Russian actor and director, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1948).

Nikolai Pavlovich Okhlopkov (May 2, 1900, Irkutsk - January 8, 1967, Moscow) - Russian Soviet theater and film actor, director, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1948). Laureate of six Stalin Prizes (1941, 1947, 1949 - twice, 1951 - twice).

Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin (1893-1953) - Soviet Russian film director, actor, screenwriter, artist, teacher. Laureate of three Stalin Prizes (1941, 1947, 1951). People's Artist of the USSR (1948).

Ivan Alexandrovich Pyryev (November 17, 1901 - February 7, 1968) - Soviet Russian film director, actor, screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1948). Six-time winner of the Stalin Prize (1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1948, 1951).

For persons "particularly distinguished in the development Soviet theater, music and cinema.

Even in Tsarist Russia, there were honorary titles for creative workers of state theaters - "Honored Artist of the Imperial Theaters" and "Soloist of His Imperial Majesty". After the revolution, they were abolished and a new one was introduced - "People's Artist of the Republic." The former soloist of His Imperial Majesty Fyodor Chaliapin became the first People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1918. The Union republics followed the example of Russia and introduced the corresponding titles. In 1936, a rigid hierarchy was built in all spheres of life, and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee established the stages of recognition of acting creativity.

The first People's Artists of the USSR were the founders and leading actors of the Moscow Art Theater - Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Ivan Moskvin and Vasily Kachalov, as well as the singer of the Bolshoi Antonina Nezhdanova.

Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky (real name - Alekseev; January 5 (17), 1863, Moscow - August 7, 1938, Moscow) - Russian theater director, actor and teacher, theater reformer. The creator of the famous acting system, which for 100 years has been very popular in Russia and in the world. People's Artist of the USSR (1936)

Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (December 11 (23), 1858, Ozurgeti, Kutaisi province - April 25, 1943, Moscow) - Russian and Soviet theater director, teacher, playwright, writer, theater critic and theater figure; one of the founders of the Moscow Art Theatre. People's Artist of the USSR (1936).

Antonina Vasilievna Nezhdanova June 4 (16), 1873, p. Krivaya Balka, near Odessa - June 26, 1950, Moscow) - Russian opera singer (lyric-coloratura soprano), teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1936). Doctor of Arts (1944)

Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov, real name Shverubovich (1875-1948) - Russian and Soviet theater actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1936)

People's Artist of the USSR could only become artists who already had the title of Honored, then People's Artist of the Autonomous, then Union Republic. According to an unspoken rule, they became honored artists upon reaching 40 years old, and people's artists of the USSR - 60. People's artists were awarded a diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and a badge. They were entitled to an increased salary, a 50% discount on utility bills, a company car and a state dacha, additional living space, and, by special decision, treatment at the 4th Main Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Health, and subsequently a pension of federal and republican significance. During the tour, people's artists of the USSR were entitled to a sleeping car and a suite in a hotel.

Ivan Mikhailovich Moskvin (June 6 (18), 1874, Moscow - February 16, 1946, Moscow) - Russian Soviet actor, theater director, master of the artistic word (reader). People's Artist of the USSR (1936).

It was easier for members of the CPSU to get the title. However, the scale of talent and genuine people's love more than once defeated party leaders - People's Artists of the USSR F. Ranevskaya and A. Raikin, I. Moiseev and M. Plisetskaya, G. Tovstonogov and M. Babanova were non-party.

... The penultimate was the singer Alla Pugacheva. The last - the actor of the Moscow "Lenkom" Oleg Yankovsky. They say that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed the decree just an hour before he announced to the people that the USSR no longer exists.

Ekaterina Pavlovna Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya (1874-1951) - Russian and Soviet theater and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1936).

Maria Mikhailovna Blumenthal-Tamarina (July 16, 1859, St. Petersburg - October 16, 1938, Moscow) - Russian theater and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1936).

Boris Vasilievich Shchukin (1894-1939) - Soviet theater and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1936)

Maria Ivanovna Litvinenko-Wolgemut (1892 - 1966) - Soviet Ukrainian opera singer (lyric-dramatic soprano), actress, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1936)

Panas (Athanasius) Karpovich Saksagansky (real name - Tobilevich; 1859-1940) - Ukrainian and Soviet actor, theater director, playwright and teacher of Mark Kropyvnytsky's school, a coryphaeus of the Ukrainian household theater. People's Artist of the USSR (1936)

Kulyash (Gulbahram) Zhasynovna Baiseitova (kaz. Kulash Zhasynkyzy Baiseitova (January 12, 1912, Verny, Turkestan Governor General, Russian Empire - June 6, 1957, Moscow, USSR) - an outstanding Soviet opera singer (lyric-coloratura soprano), dramatic actress, People's Artist of the USSR (1936)

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (April 1, 1883, Plakhino village, Ryazan province - July 8, 1946, Berlin) - Soviet Russian composer, choral conductor, choirmaster, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1937), Major General (1943). The author of the music of the Anthem of the USSR, and the Anthem of the Russian Federation set to the same melody.

Alla Konstantinovna Tarasova (1898-1973) - Soviet theater and film actress. Laureate of five Stalin Prizes (1941, 1946 - twice, 1947, 1949). Hero of Socialist Labor (1973), People's Artist of the USSR (1937)

Nikolai Pavlovich Khmelev (July 28 (August 10), 1901, Sormovo - November 1, 1945, Moscow) - Soviet actor, director. People's Artist of the USSR (1937). Laureate of three Stalin Prizes of the first degree (1941, 1942, 1946 - posthumously)

Mikhail Mikhailovich Tarkhanov (real name - Moskvin) (September 7 (19), 1877 - 1948) - Russian and Soviet theater and film actor, director, teacher, doctor of art history (1939). People's Artist of the USSR (1937).

Nadezhda Andreevna Obukhova (1886-1961) - Russian Soviet opera singer (mezzo-soprano). Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1943). People's Artist of the USSR (1937)

Olga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhova (September 9 (21), 1868, Glazov - March 22, 1959, Moscow) - Russian and Soviet actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1937). Laureate of the Stalin Prize (1943). Wife of A.P. Chekhov.

Alexander Alekseevich Ostuzhev (real name - Pozharov; 1874 - 1953) - Russian and Soviet actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1937)

Vera Nikolaevna Pashennaya (1887-1962) - Russian and Soviet theater and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1937)

Prov Mikhailovich Sadovsky (junior) (1874-1947) - Russian and Soviet actor, theater director. People's Artist of the USSR (1937)

Alexandra Alexandrovna Yablochkina (1866-1964) - Russian and Soviet theater actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1937), laureate of the Stalin Prize (1943), three times holder of the Order of Lenin

Reinhold Moritsevich Glier (name at birth - Reinhold Ernest Glier) (January 11, 1875 (December 30, 1874) - June 23, 1956) - Soviet composer, conductor, teacher, musical and public figure. People's Artist of the USSR (1938)

Solomon Mikhailovich Mikhoels (Yiddish שלמה מיכאָעלס, Shloyme Mikhoels; real name Vovsi; 1890-1948) - Soviet Jewish theater actor and director, teacher, public and political figure. People's Artist of the USSR (1939). Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1946). Killed by the MGB. The murder is disguised as a traffic accident.

Haykanush Baghdasarovna (Anna Borisovna) Danielyan (arm. Հայկանուշ Դանիյելյան; 1893-1958) was an Armenian Soviet singer (lyric-coloratura soprano). People's Artist of the USSR (1939)

Ivan Semyonovich Kozlovsky (March 11 (24), 1900, Maryanovka village, Kyiv province - December 21, 1993, Moscow) - Soviet opera and chamber singer (lyric tenor), director. People's Artist of the USSR (1940).

Evdokia Dmitrievna Turchaninova (1870-1963) - Russian and Soviet theater actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1943).

Ruben Nikolaevich Simonov (Arm. Ռուբեն Նիկողայոսի Սիմոնյանց; 1899-1968) - Soviet Russian actor, theater and film director, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1946).

Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev (literary pseudonym - Igor Glebov; 1884 - 1949) - Russian Soviet composer, musicologist, music critic, teacher. Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1943), People's Artist of the USSR (1946)

Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov (1903-1966) - an outstanding Soviet theater and film actor.
People's Artist of the USSR (1947). Winner of the Lenin Prize (1964) and five Stalin Prizes (1941, 1946, 1950, 1951 - twice).

Grigory Vasilievich Alexandrov (real name Mormonenko; 1903-1983), Soviet Russian film director, actor, screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1948)

Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky (June 30, 1894, Moscow - April 5, 1977, Moscow) - Soviet Russian actor and director, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1948).

Nikolai Pavlovich Okhlopkov (May 2, 1900, Irkutsk - January 8, 1967, Moscow) - Russian Soviet theater and film actor, director, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1948). Laureate of six Stalin Prizes (1941, 1947, 1949 - twice, 1951 - twice).

Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin (1893-1953) - Soviet Russian film director, actor, screenwriter, artist, teacher. Laureate of three Stalin Prizes (1941, 1947, 1951). People's Artist of the USSR (1948).

Ivan Alexandrovich Pyryev (November 17, 1901 - February 7, 1968) - Soviet Russian film director, actor, screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1948). Six-time winner of the Stalin Prize (1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1948, 1951).

Olga Nikolaevna Androvskaya (real name - Schultz; 1898-1975) - Soviet theater and film actress, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1948). Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1952). Aunt Alexei Batalov

Alexei Nikolaevich Gribov (1902-1977) - Soviet theater and film actor, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1948), Hero of Socialist Labor (1972), winner of four Stalin Prizes (1942, 1946, 1951, 1952)

Boris Nikolaevich Livanov (1904 - 1972) - Russian Soviet actor and director. People's Artist of the USSR (1948). Laureate of five Stalin Prizes (1941, 1942, 1947, 1949, 1950) and the State Prize of the USSR (1970).

44th place. Oksana Fandera(born November 7, 1967, Odessa) - Soviet and Russian actress. Her father, Oleg Fandera, is half Ukrainian, half Gypsy, and her mother is Jewish. From an interview with the actress:

– Oksana, three bloods are mixed in you: Ukrainian, Gypsy and Jewish. In what way do they appear?

- Probably because I cook like a Ukrainian, I love freedom like a gypsy, and I feel world sorrow like a Jew.

– Who do you feel more like?

– Now I can equally feel like one, the other and the third.

43rd place. Kyunna Ignatova(September 26, 1934, Moscow - February 21, 1988) - Soviet actress who played the main roles in the films "Lyana" (1955), "Long Way" (1956), "The Tale of the Newlyweds" (1959). Yakut by nationality.

42nd place. Tatyana Samoilova(May 4, 1934, St. Petersburg - May 4, 2014) - Soviet and Russian actress, best known for her role as Veronica in the film The Cranes Are Flying (1957). From an interview with Tatyana Samoilova: "We are half-breeds with my brother. Our mother is a purebred Jew, and our father is a purebred Russian." The actress also said that it was from her Jewish mother that she inherited slightly slanted eyes.

41st place. Tamara Shakirova(November 26, 1955, Tashkent - February 22, 2012) - Soviet and Uzbek actress, Honored Artist of the Uzbek SSR. Uzbek by nationality. Tamara Shakirova - mother of the famous Uzbek singer Rayhon Ganieva.

40th place. (born 1944, Tashkent) - theater and film actress, People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR. Uzbek by nationality. Svetlana Norbaeva - mother of the famous Russian director and producer Janik Faiziev.

Svetlana Norbaeva in the film "At the very blue sky" (1972)

39th place. Julia Borisova(born March 17, 1925, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People's Artist of the USSR. The actress is predominantly theatrical, Yulia Borisova starred in films a little and is better known for those performances of the Theater. Vakhtangov, which were shown on television: "The City at Dawn", "Princess Turandot", "Millionaire", "Irkutsk History", "Cavalry", "Anthony and". She played in the cinema, in particular, Nastasya Filippovna in the film "Idiot" (1958) based on F. M. Dostoevsky and Elena Koltsova in the film "Ambassador Soviet Union"(1969). Russian by nationality.

Yulia Borisova as Nastasya Filippovna in The Idiot (1958)

38th place. Tattybubu Tursunbayeva(July 12, 1944 - December 21, 1981) - Soviet theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the Kirghiz SSR. Kyrgyz by nationality.

Tattybyubyu Tursunbayeva in the film "Echo of Love" (1974)

37th place. Svetlana Svetlichnaya(born May 15, 1940, Gyumri, Armenia) - Soviet and Russian actress, Honored Artist of the USSR. Famous film roles: smuggler girl (Hero of Our Time, 1966), Anna Sergeevna (Diamond Hand, 1968). Russian by nationality.

36th place. Ludmila Gurchenko(November 12, 1935, Kharkov - March 30, 2011) - Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, singer, film director, People's Artist of the USSR. Russian by nationality. Ukrainian surname Lyudmila Markovna - a consequence of an error in the passport office. Her father's real name is Gurchenkov He was Russian by nationality. The actress herself also considered herself Russian: "I, a Russian person, grew up in Ukraine and absorbed everything Ukrainian..."

35th place. Lyubov Polishchuk(May 21, 1949, Omsk - November 28, 2006) - Soviet and Russian actress, People's Artist of Russia. From an interview with the actress: "My mother is Ukrainian, my father is Don Cossack. From childhood, we all spoke Ukrainian."

34th place. Tatyana Klyueva(born August 25, 1951, Moscow) - Soviet actress, most famous role which is Barbara in the film "Barbara-beauty, long braid"(1969). After marriage, she took her husband's surname (Gagina), left for Sevastopol (her husband was a sailor) and practically did not act in films. Russian by nationality.

Tatyana Klyueva in the film "Barbara-beauty, long braid" (1969)

33rd place. Natalya Sedykh(born July 10, 1948, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian ballerina, figure skater, actress. Her most famous role is Nastenka in the film Frost (1964). A little about the surname "Sedykh": it may seem Ukrainian, but this is one of the oldest Russian surnames that arose in the Russian North. Similar surnames in which the adjective is fixed in genitive case plural, have the meaning "from the family of such and such": the head of the family is Gray, family members are Gray, each of them is from the family of Gray.

32nd place. Lydia Tsirgvava(April 14, 1923, Harbin, China - December 31, 2013) - Soviet and Russian actress, artist. Georgian by nationality. Better known as Lydia Vertinskaya(by the name of her husband - Russian singer Alexander Vertinsky). Mother of actresses Anastasia and Marianna Vertinsky.

31st place. Ariadna Shengelaya(born January 13, 1937, Tashkent) - Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People's Artist of the Georgian SSR, People's Artist of Russia. By the surname, you might think that she is Georgian, but this is the surname of her husband, and the real name of the actress is Shprink. Ariadne's father, a Dane by nationality, was an economist who spent 26 years in Stalin's camps.

30th place. Dodo Chogovadze(born 1951) - Soviet actress, best known for her role as Princess Budur in the film " Magic lamp Aladdin "(1966). Georgian by nationality.

Dodo Chogovadze in Aladdin's Magic Lamp (1966)

29th place. Nato Vachnadze(June 14, 1904, Warsaw, Poland - June 4, 1953) - Soviet actress, People's Artist of the Georgian SSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Georgian by nationality. Real name - Natalia Andronikashvili. Vachnadze - surname after her first husband.

28th place. Marianna Vertinskaya(born July 28, 1943, Shanghai, China) - Soviet and Russian actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Marianna Vertinskaya is from a well-known artistic family. Her father is Russian singer Alexander Vertinsky, mother ( Georgian origin) - actress and artist Lidia Vertinskaya ( maiden name Tsirgvava), Anastasia's younger sister is an actress. The most famous role of Marianna Vertinskaya in the cinema is Anya (Zastava Ilyich, 1964).

27th place. Maya Menglet(born August 8, 1935, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR. In some sources, you can find information that Maya Menglet is Jewish, but this is not so. Menglet is a Russian surname that arose after the war of 1812, when Maya Menglet's great-great-great-grandfather, a captain in the French army, entered the Russian service and converted to Orthodoxy. Maya's father famous actor Georgy Pavlovich Menglet, mother - actress Valentina Koroleva. The most famous role of Maya Georgievna in the cinema is Tonya in the film "It was in Penkovo" (1957). Leonid Brezhnev considered Maya Menglet the ideal of beauty and watched "It was in Penkovo" several times. Maya Menglet was called "Russian".

26th place. Tatiana Vedeneeva(born July 10, 1953, Volgograd) - Soviet and Russian TV presenter and an actress. She was the host of various television programs: "Alarm Clock", "Morning", "Tatiana's Day", " Goodnight, kids!", "Visiting a fairy tale", etc. Some film roles: Gero (Much Ado About Nothing, 1973), Natasha (Police Sergeant, 1974), Ella Deley (Hello, I'm your aunt !, 1975). Russian by nationality.

25th place. Nonna Terenteva(maiden name - Novosyadlova; February 15, 1942, Baku, Azerbaijan - March 8, 1996) - Soviet and Russian actress. Russian by nationality. Some film roles: Ekaterina Turkina (In the City of S., 1967), Zoya Monrose (The Collapse of Engineer Garin, 1973), Nina Smelskaya (Talents and Admirers, 1973), Yvonne Trout (Mad Gold, 1976). Leonid Kvinikhidze, director of the film "The Collapse of Engineer Garin" about the actress: "An extraordinary beauty, with European charm. Plastic, graceful. If an actress of this level appeared now, she would become a musical star. And in those years her appearance was called non-Soviet. After all, collective farmers became the heroines of films and workers. Of course, Nonna suffered from professional lack of demand. And she passed away very early. "

24th place. Ludmila Savelyeva(born January 24, 1942, St. Petersburg) - Soviet and Russian actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR. Her most famous role is Natasha Rostova in Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace (1967). Russian by nationality.

Lyudmila Savelyeva as Natasha Rostova in War and Peace (1967)

23rd place. Ekaterina Zhemchuzhnaya(born March 28, 1944, Tula) - artist of the Moscow Gypsy Theater "Romen", People's Artist of Russia. Gypsy by nationality. Maiden name - Alexandrovich. She acted in films as gypsies, for example, she played Zoritsa in the Soviet TV series Eternal Call. Ekaterina Zhemchuzhnaya is the mother of actress Lyalya Zhemchuzhnaya.

22nd place. Natalya Bondarchuk(born May 10, 1950, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian actress, film director, screenwriter, Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Daughter of People's Artists of the USSR, director Sergei Bondarchuk and actress Inna Makarova. From an interview with Natalia Bondarchuk: "I am half Ukrainian, by my father, and I love Ukraine very much."

21st place. Antonina Lefty(born May 30, 1945, the village of Severinovka, Moldova) - Soviet and Ukrainian actress, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. Ukrainian by nationality.

20th place. Lyalya (Olga) Pearl(born May 31, 1969) - Russian actress and singer, Honored Artist of Russia. Gypsy by nationality. From the age of 16 she has been working in the Moscow gypsy theater "Romen" (her mother, Ekaterina Zhemchuzhnaya, also works there). Acting in films since 1982. The most famous role is the gypsy Aza in film of the same name 1987.

19th place. Natalia Naum(January 14, 1933, the village of Stary Mizun, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine - March 22, 2004) - Soviet and Ukrainian actress, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. Ukrainian by nationality.

18th place. (born February 17, 1943, Malin, Zhytomyr region of Ukraine) - theater and film actress, People's Artist of Ukraine. Ukrainian by nationality.

17th place. Natalya Arinbasarova(born September 24, 1946, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of the USSR State Prize for the role of Kamshat Sataeva in the film "The Taste of Bread" (1979). Natalya Arinbasarova became famous after playing the role of Altynai in Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky's film "The First Teacher" (according to novel of the same name Chingiz Aitmatov). She played the famous Kazakh machine-gunner Manshuk Mametova in the film "The Song of Manshuk" (1969). The father of the actress is, mother is. Natalya Arinbasarova - mother famous director Egor Konchalovsky.

16th place. Valentina Malyavina(born June 18, 1941, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian actress, Honored Artist of Russia. Famous film roles: Masha (Ivan's Childhood, 1962), Sybil Wayne (The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1968), Angela (The Deer King, 1969). Russian by nationality.

15th place. Natalya Kustinskaya(April 5, 1938, Moscow - December 13, 2012) - Soviet actress, Honored Artist of Russia. Famous film roles: Natalya (Three plus two, 1963), film actress, director Yakin's girlfriend (Ivan Vasilievich changes his profession, 1973), Polina Polipova, Lakhnovsky's daughter (TV series Eternal Call, 1973-1983). Russian by nationality.

14th place. Galina Belyaeva(born April 26, 1961, Irkutsk) - Soviet and Russian actress, Honored Artist of Russia. Famous film roles: Olga Skvortsova (My affectionate and gentle beast, 1978), Verochka Lisichkina (Ah, vaudeville, vaudeville ..., 1979), Anna Pavlova (film of the same name, 1983), Joanna Sadley (Black Arrow, 1985), Varvara Lopukhina (Lermontov, 1986). Russian by nationality.

Galina Belyaeva in the film "My sweet and gentle beast" (1978)

13th place. Vera Alentova(born February 21, 1942, Kotlas, Arkhangelsk region) - Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of Russia. The most famous film role is Katerina (Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, 1979). Russian by nationality.

12th place. Matluba Alimova(born August 12, 1954, Andijan, Uzbekistan) - Soviet and Russian actress, known for the films "Little Tragedies" (1979), "Gypsy" (1979), "Vasily Buslaev" (1982), "The Tale of star boy"(1983)," The Return of Budulay "(1985) and others. Uzbek by nationality.

Matluba Alimova in the film "In the rapids of a mad river" (Uzbekfilm, 1980)

11th place. Natalia Trubnikova(born July 17, 1955, Moscow) - soviet ballerina and an actress. Russian by nationality. Her most famous film role is Princess Melisente in June 31st (1978). After the role in this film, in her own words, she turned into a "screen test actress" - the directors did not approve her for the role, suggesting that she would soon go abroad.

10th place. Victoria Fedorova(January 18, 1946, Moscow - September 5, 2012) - Soviet and American actress, writer, screenwriter. Daughter of Russian actress Zoya Fedorova and military attache at the US Embassy in the USSR Jackson Tate. Tate was expelled from the USSR in May 1945 and did not know for 18 years that he had a daughter, Victoria, in another country. Victoria's mother was accused of espionage and sentenced to 25 years in the camps for having an affair with an American. Victoria Fedorova was brought up by her aunt, whom she considered her mother until the age of 9.
Famous roles of Victoria Fedorova in Soviet films: journalist Lena (Literature Lesson, 1968), Dunya Raskolnikova (Crime and Punishment, 1969), Galina (About Love, 1970), Katya (Payback, 1970).

9th place. Via (Alida) Artmane(August 21, 1929 - October 11, 2008) - Soviet and Latvian theater and film actress, People's Artist of the USSR. Her father is Baltic German, mother is Polish. Notable film roles: Sonya (Native Blood, 1963), She (Nobody Wanted to Die, 1966), Julia Lambert (Theatre, 1978).

Via Artmane in the film "Behind the Swan Flock of Clouds" (1957)

8th place. Zhanna (Zhannette) Prokhorenko(May 11, 1940, Poltava - August 1, 2011) - Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR. Ukrainian by nationality.

6th place. Ludmila Chursina(born July 20, 1941, Dushanbe, Tajikistan) - Soviet and Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR. Famous film roles: Cossack Daria (Don story, 1964), Virineya (film of the same name, 1968), Anfisa Petrovna Kozyreva (Gloomy River, 1969), Olesya (film of the same name, 1971). Russian by nationality.

5th place. Anastasia Vertinskaya(born December 19, 1944, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR. Younger sister of Marianna Vertinskaya. Famous movie roles: Assol ( Scarlet Sails, 1961), Gutierre (Amphibian Man, 1961), (Hamlet, 1964), Liza Bolkonskaya (War and Peace, 1968), Olivia (Twelfth Night, 1978), Margarita (, 1994). Anastasia Vertinskaya also voiced Constance Bonacieux, who was played by Irina Alferova in the film "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers" (1978).

Anastasia Vertinskaya as Ophelia in Hamlet (1964)

4th place. Svetlana Fomicheva(born March 24, 1947, Chisinau, Moldova), better known under the pseudonym Svetlana Toma- Soviet and Russian actress. Svetlana Toma (a pseudonym taken from the name of her great-grandmother) was remembered by the audience primarily for the roles of the gypsies Masha (The Living Corpse, 1968), Rada (The Tabor Goes to Heaven, 1976) and Tina (My Affectionate and Gentle Beast, 1978), but no gypsy roots she doesn’t, but by nationality she is Russian: “My father is Russian, from Voronezh, from the village of Somovka, Dobrinsky district. There the whole village bore the surname Fomichevs, this is my father’s surname. married an Austrian, then Hungarians, Romanians were added.

Svetlana Toma in the film "The camp goes to the sky" (1976)

3rd place. Natalya Varley(born June 22, 1947, Constanta, Romania) - Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR. N. K. Krupskaya for the role of Katya's mother in the film "I don't want to be an adult" (1982). Best known for her role as Nina in the film "Prisoner of the Caucasus, or Shurik's New Adventures" (1966) and the role of Pannochka in the film "Viy" (1967). From an interview with Natalia Varley about her roots: "The surname Varley is Welsh. Marie Varley - Stanislavsky's grandmother - was. I have our family tree Varley and Barbot de Marny - this is my mother's maiden name. Georges Barbot de Marny once came to Russia to serve officer with Peter the Great. He married a Russian and stayed here, laying the foundation for a whole family. All men became mining engineers on my mother's side. The author of the novel "Prince Silver" Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy is our distant relative. With Barbot de Marni, who live in America, Estonia, Switzerland, we once met, one initiative representative of our family gathered us together in Russia. We looked at each other and realized that we all looked alike. There is a German branch in the Varley family, I have relatives in Germany."

2nd place. Tamara Yandieva(born July 23, 1955, Karaganda, Kazakhstan) - actress and singer, People's Artist of Ingushetia. She starred in 17 Soviet films. Most of all, the actress was remembered by the audience for the trilogy about Scheherazade from the tales of 1001 nights. In the first picture "And another night of Scheherazade ..." Tamara Yandieva appeared in the image of Anora, the daughter of the merchant Karabay. And in the next two ("New Tales of Scheherazade" and "The Last Night of Scheherazade") she played Princess Esmigul. Ingush by nationality.

Tamara Yandieva as Princess Esmigul in the film "New Tales of Scheherazade"

The most beautiful Soviet actress - Irina Alferova(born March 13, 1951, Novosibirsk). People's Artist of Russia. Famous film roles: Daria (Walking through the torments, 1977), Constance (D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers, 1979), Xenia (Vasily Buslaev, 1982), Alena (Yermak, 1996). By nationality .