title: Lidiya Smirnova
text: # Lidiya Smirnova
  
  Lidiya Nikolayevna Smirnova (Russian: Ли́дия Никола́евна Смирно́ва; 1915 — 2007) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. People's Artist of USSR (1974). The winner of the Stalin Prize of the third degree (1951). Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1952.
  
  ## Selected filmography
  
  * The New Moscow (1938) as a girl
  * My Love (1940) as Shura
  * The Guy from Our Town (1942) as Varya Burmina (Lukonina)
  * Michman Panin (1960) as wife Grigoriev's
  * Silence (1963) as Seraphima Ignatyevna Bykova
  * Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964) as doctor
  * Balzaminov's Marriage (1964) as Matchmaker
  * Village Detective (1968) as Yevdokia Mironovna Pronina, Rural shop clerk
  * As Ilf and Petrov rode a tram (1972) as handler and artistic director of circus
  * Shelter Comedians (1995) as Nelly Yevgenievna
  