{{short description|Soviet and Russian actress}} {{Infobox person | name = Lidiya Smirnova | honorific_suffix = | native_name = Лидия Смирнова | native_name_lang = ru | image = Lidiya Smirnova in My Love (1940 film).jpg | image_size = | caption = Smirnova in ''My Love'' (1940) | birth_name = Lidiya Nikolayevna Smirnova | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1915|02|13}} | birth_place = Menzelinsk, Ufa Governorate, Russian Empire | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2007|07|25|1915|02|13}} | death_place = Zelenograd, Russia<ref>[http://mosenc.ru/encyclopedia?task=core.view&id=8628 Лица Москвы. Московская энциклопедия] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304123948/http://mosenc.ru/encyclopedia?task=core.view&id=8628 |date=2016-03-04 }}</ref> | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1934–2005 | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | website = | awards = People's Artist of the USSR (1974) }}

'''Lidiya Nikolayevna Smirnova''' ({{langx|ru|Ли́дия Никола́евна Смирно́ва}}; 13 February 1915 – 25 July 2007)<ref>[http://www.woman55plus.ru/ru/kultura/.view/id/178/ Лидия Николаевна СМИРНОВА — памяти актрисы — Клуб женщин младшего пенсионного возраста<!-- The title was added by a bot -->]</ref> was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. She was awarded People's Artist of the USSR (1974). She was member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1952.<ref name="sk-news"/>

==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)<ref name="sk-news">{{Cite web |url=http://www.unikino.ru/images/stories/archive/bd4/sk-238.pdf |title=Прощание: Лидия Смирнова // Газета "СК-новости", № 8 (238) от 2.08.2007 — стр. 17 |access-date=2016-01-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208054458/http://www.unikino.ru/images/stories/archive/bd4/sk-238.pdf |archive-date=2015-12-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 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

== References == {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{commons category}} *{{IMDb name|0807074}} * [https://archive.today/20130419142912/http://eternaltown.com.ua/content/view/5624/2/1/1/ Лидия Смирнова, биография в изложении Фёдора Раззакова]{{cbignore}} {{Authority control}}

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