Lyudmila Chursina

Lyudmila Alexeyevna Chursina was a Soviet and Russian film actress. She worked in film and television from 1962, appearing in more than 50 productions. Lyudmila Chursina went nude in Vyryneya and Open Book (1974), then again in Na Granatovykh Ostrovakh (1981). She was born on July 20, 1941, in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, now Dushanbe in Tajikistan. In 1981 she sat on the jury of the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. At 40 she became the youngest actress to be named People's Artist of the USSR. Chursina died on June 10, 2026, at the age of 84, after a long illness with cancer.