Aleksandra Ivanovna Klimova (, ; 1 October 1921 – 13 May 2005) was a Soviet, Belarusian and Russian stage and film actress and pedagogue. Klimova was born in Zatolobovka in what was then the Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic and now

Kostanay District Kostanay ( kk, Қостанай ауданы, ) is a Districts of Kazakhstan, district of Kostanay Region in eastern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the urban-type settlement of Tobyl, Kazakhstan, Tobyl. Population: No ...

of the Kostanay Region of Kazakhstan. From 1942 until 1945 she worked at the Magnitogorsk Theatre and in 1949 she attended M.S. Shchepkina Theatre School while working in Odessa. From 1953 to 1956 she worked in the

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...

after moving to the

Byelorussian SSR The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, or Byelorussian SSR; be, Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка, Bielaruskaja Savieckaja Sacyjalistyčnaja Respublika; russian: Белор� ...

, now Belarus. In 1959 she was awarded the Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR, followed by the People's Artist of the Byelorussian SSR in 1963 and

People's Artist of the USSR People's Artist of the USSR ( rus, Народный артист СССР, Narodny artist SSSR), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union. Nomenclature and significan ...

in 1969 for her accomplishments in acting at that theatre. From 1981 until 1988 she taught at the Belarusian State Theater and Art Institute. She sat on numerous committees, including the

Soviet Peace Committee The Soviet Peace Committee (SPC, also known as Soviet Committee for the Defense of Peace, SCDP, russian: Советский Комитет Защиты Мира) was a state-sponsored organization responsible for coordinating peace movements active ...

, the Commission on Lenin and State Prizes under the

Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union The Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( rus, Совет министров СССР, r=Sovet Ministrov SSSR, p=sɐˈvʲet mʲɪˈnʲistrəf ɛsɛsɛˈsɛr; sometimes abbreviated to ''Sovmin'' or referred to as the '' ...

, the BSSR Commission for UNESCO, and the Board of the Belarusian Union of Theatre Workers, which she headed. She died in Minsk in May 2005 and is buried in its Eastern Cemetery. In 2007, a memorial plaque was unveiled commemorating her.

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