Sofia Erjonovna Tuibayeva (sometimes transliterated Tuyboeva) ( tg, София Эрҷоновна Тӯйбоева) (January 30, 1913 – October 26, 1996) was a

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

i actress of the

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

era. Born in

Kazalinsk Kazaly (, ''Qazaly''), also known as Kazalinsk () is a town in Kazaly District of Kyzylorda Region in Kazakhstan, located on the right bank of the Syr Darya River. Population: History During the Russian conquest of Central Asia The partia ...

, Tuibayeva began her career in Bukhara in the mid-1920s. Between 1929 and 1931 she was an actress at the Hamza Dramatic Theater in

Tashkent Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of 2 ...

; in 1931 she joined the Lahuti State Academy of Dramatic Arts. Her career gained momentum in the 1930s; among her roles at this point were Juliet in '' Romeo and Juliet'' and Nadezhda Krupskaya in ''The Storm'' by Ghani Abdullo and Shamsi Qiyomov. During the 1940s she worked with directors such as Nikolai Akimov. Tuibayeva began to work in cinema in 1934; her films include ''Man bo Dukhtari Vokhurdam'' (''I Met a Girl'', 1957), in which she played Mehrinisokhola; ''Qismati Shoir'' (''The Lot of the Poet'', 1959), in which she played Boy; ''Vaqti Zangirii Pisaram Rasid'' (''It Is Time for My Son to Get Married'', 1960), in which she appeared as Saidabonu; and ''Zumrad'' (''Zumrad'', 1961), in which she played Modari Jalil. Named a

People's Artist of the Tajik SSR People's Artist of the Tajik SSR (Народный артист Таджикской ССР), is an honorary title awarded to citizens of the Tajik SSR in the Soviet Union. It is awarded for outstanding performance in the performing arts, whose me ...

in 1941, Tuibayeva is recognized as one of the founders of the Tajik National Theater, and was instrumental in the training of many younger Tajikistani artists. For her work she received the

Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina, ), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration ...

and the

Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, translit=Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to th ...

, the latter three times over. She died in

Dushanbe Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (ru ...

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{{authority control 1913 births 1996 deaths People from Syr-Darya Oblast People's Artists of Tajikistan Recipients of the Order of Lenin Soviet film actresses Soviet stage actresses Tajikistani film actresses Tajikistani stage actresses