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Nina Afanasievna Sazonova (Russian: Нина Афанасьевна Сазонова; 1917 —2004) was a leading actress of the Soviet Army Theatre in Moscow.
The daughter of a peasant, she joined Aleksey Popov's theatre school at the age of 17. Popov went on to direct her in a number of productions at the Soviet Army Theatre. In the 1960s, she appeared in supporting roles in a slew of Soviet films and gained wider renown for her portrayal of a World War II survivor in the 1965 melodrama Womenfolk. Sazonova was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1977 and was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1987.
Her later years were plagued by a series of horrible incidents, such as being severely beaten by her drunken son who proceeded to jump 11 stories out of an apartment window to his death.
Selected filmography
- A Simple Story (1960)
- Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961)
- There Is Such a Lad (1964)
- Woman's World (1967)
- Zigzag of Success (1968)
- Day by Day (1971–72)
