Lyudmila Chursina

Lyudmila Alexeyevna Chursina (; 20 July 1941 – 10 June 2026) was a Soviet and Russian film actress. She appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 1962. In 1981 she was a member of the jury at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. At the age of 40, she was the youngest actress to receive the title of the People's Artist of the USSR.

On 11 March 2014, she supported 2014 annexation of Crimea by signing the collective petition to the Russian public "Culture figures of Russia – support of President Putin's position about Ukraine and Crimea".

Chursina died on 10 June 2026, at the age of 84. She died of a long-term cancerous disease.

Selected filmography When the Trees Were Tall (1961) as Zoya Don Tale (1964) as Darya Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show (1966) as Inka The Andromeda Nebula (1967) as Louma Lasvi Virineya (1968) as Virineya A Little Crane (1968) as Marfa The Adjutant of His Excellency (1969) as Oksana Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (1971) as Pepa Olesya (1971) as Olesya How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor (1976) as Catherine I of Russia Primary Russia (1985) as Aneya Orlova and Alexandrov (2015) as Yevgenia Nikolaevna