Beder Yusupova

Beder Akhmetovna Yusupova, (pseudonym Lucy, , ; 21 December 1901 – 30 August 1969) was a Soviet Bashkiria actress, and teacher.

She was awarded the People's Artist of the Bashkir ASSR (1940), and Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1944).

Life Beder Akhmetovna Yusupova was born on December 21, 1901, in the city of Orsk, Orenburg Governorate, Russian Empire.

Between 1919 and 1929, she was a teacher in the Bashkir Republic schools, and worked in departments of the Bashkir People's Commissariat of Education.

From 1926 until the end of her life, she was an actress in the First Bashkir State Theater troupe. She often played in theaters, appeared on radio and television with performances of kubairy (a genre in Bashkir poetry), Bashkir dances and songs.

During World War II, she participated in concerts at the front.