Lyudmila Chursina

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alexeyevna and the family name is Chursina.

Lyudmila Alexeyevna Chursina^[a] (born 20 July 1941) is a Soviet and Russian film actress. She has appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 1962. In 1981 she was a member of the jury at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival.^[1] At the age of 40, she is the youngest actress to receive the title of the People's Artist of the USSR.^[2]

Dmitry Medvedev at the ceremony of presenting state awards. Medal of Honor awarded Artist of Russian Army Theatre Lyudmila Chursina, 2012

Lyudmila Chursina
Людмила Чурсина
Chursina in 2016
Born	(1941-07-20) 20 July 1941 (age 84) Velikiye Luki, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1961–present
Awards

Selected filmography

• When the Trees Were Tall (1961) as Zoya
• Don Tale (1964) as Darya
• Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show (1966) as Inka
• The Andromeda Nebula (1967) as Louma Lasvi
• Virineya (1968) as Virineya
• A Little Crane (1968) as Marfa
• The Adjutant of His Excellency (1969) as Oksana
• Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (1971) as Pepa
• Olesya (1971) as Olesya
• How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor (1976) as Catherine I of Russia
• Primary Russia (1985) as Aneya
• Orlova and Alexandrov (2015) as Evgenia Nikolaevna

Political position

On 11 March 2014, she supported the reunification of Crimea with Russia by signing collective petition to the Russian public "Culture figures of Russia - support of President Putin's position about Ukraine and Crimea".^[3]

Notes

1. Russian: Людмила Алексеевна Чурсина, romanized: Lyudmila Alekseyevna Chursina