Lyudmila Iosifovna Makarova (russian: Людмила Иосифовна Макарова; 20 October 1921 – 30 May 2014) was a Russian stage actress from

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. From 1938 to 1941, she studied at the Greater Drama Theatre, becoming the theatre's lead actress under

Georgy Tovstonogov Georgy Aleksandrovich Tovstonogov (russian: Георгий Александрович Товстоногов, – 23 May 1989) was a Russian-Georgian theatre director. He was the leader of the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater which was renamed after ...

. She is an best known for roles in performance and television film

Khanuma Khanuma (russian: Ханума xanuma ) is a shrewd matchmaker in the eponymous 1978 Soviet Russian Georgian-themed television film directed by Georgy Tovstonogov. It is a screen version of the same name classic Georgian vaudeville by Avksenty ...

. In 1977, she was named a

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 ...

.Legendary Actress Lyudmila Makarova Dead at 93
, sptimes.ru; accessed 31 May 2014. Her on-screen appearances were rather brief. She was married to actor

Yefim Kopelyan Yefim Zakharovich Kopelyan (russian: Ефим Захарович Копелян; 12 April 1912 – 6 March 1975) was a Soviet Union, Soviet actor of theatre and cinema, one of the legendary masters of the Bolshoi Theatre of Drama (BDT) in Leni ...

from 1941 until his death in 1975. Their son, Kirill Kopelyan (died 2005), was also an actor.

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* 1921 births 2014 deaths Russian film actresses Russian stage actresses Soviet film actresses Soviet stage actresses Actresses from Saint Petersburg People's Artists of the USSR People's Artists of the RSFSR Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) {{Russia-actor-stub