# Lyudmila Chursina

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{{short description|Soviet actress}}
{{family name hatnote|Alexeyevna|Chursina|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
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{{Infobox person
| name             = Lyudmila Chursina
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| native_name      = {{nobold|Людмила Чурсина}}
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| caption          = Chursina in 2016
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| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1941|7|20|df=yes}}
| birth_place      = [Velikiye Luki](/source/Velikiye_Luki), Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
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| 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 
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'''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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Russian_Army_Theatre), 25 March 2017]]

==Selected filmography==
* ''[When the Trees Were Tall](/source/When_the_Trees_Were_Tall)'' (1961) as Zoya
* ''[Don Tale](/source/Don_Tale)'' (1964) as Darya
* ''[Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show](/source/Two_Tickets_for_a_Daytime_Picture_Show)'' (1966) as Inka
* ''[The Andromeda Nebula](/source/The_Andromeda_Nebula)'' (1967) as Louma Lasvi
* ''[Virineya](/source/Virineya)'' (1968) as Virineya
* ''[A Little Crane](/source/A_Little_Crane)'' (1968) as Marfa
* ''[The Adjutant of His Excellency](/source/The_Adjutant_of_His_Excellency)'' (1969) as Oksana
* ''[Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment](/source/Goya_or_the_Hard_Way_to_Enlightenment)'' (1971) as Pepa
* ''[Olesya](/source/Olesya_(1971_film))'' (1971) as Olesya
* ''[How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor](/source/How_Czar_Peter_the_Great_Married_Off_His_Moor)'' (1976) as [Catherine I of Russia](/source/Catherine_I_of_Russia)
* ''[Primary Russia](/source/Primary_Russia)'' (1985) as Aneya
* ''[Orlova and Alexandrov](/source/Orlova_and_Alexandrov)'' (2015) as Evgenia Nikolaevna

==Political views==
On 11 March 2014, she supported [2014 annexation of Crimea](/source/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](/source/Ministry_of_Culture_(Russia)). March 2014</ref>

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

{{Silver Shell for Best Actress}}
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Category:Soviet film actresses
Category:Soviet stage actresses
Category:Soviet television actresses
Category:Russian film actresses
Category:Russian stage actresses
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Category:People's Artists of the USSR
Category:People's Artists of the RSFSR
Category:Recipients of the Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR
Category:Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Category:Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)
Category:Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Category:Academicians of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences "Nika"
Category:Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute alumni

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