Actress Ludmila Chursina, one of the great stars of Soviet cinema and theater, has died at the age of 85. The information was confirmed by the website of the Centralny Akademichesky Teatr Rossiyskoy Armii, where she worked.
“Always with sadness we inform you that, after a long illness, the people’s actress of the USSR Ludmila Alekseyevna Chursina has left us. Beloved by millions of spectators, unique and incomparable, a true heroine, a great Russian dramatic actress,” says the theater’s statement.
Ludmila Alekseyevna was born on July 20, 1941 in the city of Stalinabad, now Dushanbe, in Tajikistan, then part of the Tajikistan Soviet Socialist Republic. She finished high school with a gold medal. His film debut took place in 1961, in the films “Two Lives” and “When Trees Were Big”.
In 1963, he graduated from the Shchukin Theatrical School, in Leonid Shikhmator’s class. In the same year, he entered the Vakhtangov Theater. During the filming of “The Story of Don”, she married director Vladimir Fetin and moved with him to Leningrad, where she lived for 15 years. From 1965 onwards, he joined the cast of the Lenfilm studio.
Until the mid-1970s, Chursina focused exclusively on cinema. In 1974, she returned to the stage as an actress at the Pushkin Academic Drama Theater in Leningrad. Since 1984, he has been part of the cast of the Army Theater.
