{{short description|Soviet actress}} {{family name hatnote|Alexeyevna|Chursina|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Lyudmila Chursina | native_name_lang = ru | native_name = {{nobold|Людмила Чурсина}} | image = 200px | alt = | caption = Chursina in 2016 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|7|20|df=yes}} | birth_place = Velikiye Luki, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1961{{ndash}}present | awards = 30px|link=Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class 30px|link=Order of Honour (Russia) 30px|link=Order of Friendship of Peoples<br>30px|link=People's Artist of the USSR 30px|link=People’s Artist of the RSFSR 30px|link=Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR }}

'''Lyudmila Alexeyevna Chursina'''{{efn|{{langx|ru|Людмила Алексеевна Чурсина|{{transliteration|ru|Lyudmila Alekseyevna Chursina}}}}}} (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.<ref name="Moscow1981">{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1981 |title=12th Moscow International Film Festival (1981) |accessdate=21 January 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421050907/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1981 |archivedate=21 April 2013 }}</ref> At the age of 40, she is the youngest actress to receive the title of the People's Artist of the USSR.<ref>{{cite web|title=Чурсина Людмила|url=http://kino.ukr.net/persons/555/|work=Киноафиша}}</ref>

[[File:2012-02-22 Дмитрий Медведев, Людмила Чурсина.jpeg|thumb|Dmitry Medvedev awards Chursina the Medal of Honor, 2012]] [[File:Presentation of 1st MoD's Prize of Culture and Art 21.jpg|thumb|On presentation ceremony of Ministry of Defence's Prize of Culture on Russian Army Theatre, 25 March 2017]]

==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 views== On 11 March 2014, she supported 2014 annexation of Crimea by signing the collective petition to the Russian public "Culture figures of Russia – support of President Putin's position about Ukraine and Crimea".<ref>[http://mkrf.ru/press-tsentr/novosti/ministerstvo/deyateli-kultury-rossii-v-podderzhku-pozitsii-prezidenta-po-ukraine-i-krymu Деятели культуры России — в поддержку позиции Президента по Украине и Крыму] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20140311194202/mkrf.ru/press-tsentr/novosti/ministerstvo/deyateli-kultury-rossii-v-podderzhku-pozitsii-prezidenta-po-ukraine-i-krymu |date=11 March 2014 }} {{in lang|ru}}. Ministry of Culture of Russian Federation. March 2014</ref>

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0161524|Lyudmila Chursina}}

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