Tamara Nizhnikova

Tamara Nikolayevna Nizhnikova (, ; 9 March 1925 – 15 February 2018) was a Soviet and Belarusian opera singer and teacher. She has been described as "a stalwart of the National Opera and Ballet of Belarus". She was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, the Order of Friendship of Peoples, and the Order of Francysk Skaryna, and named a People's Artist of the USSR. The Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus performed The Barber of Seville in her honour in 2025.

Life Nizhnikova was born in Samara on 9 March 1925. She was a soprano opera singer and a singing teacher. Nizhnikova attended the Moscow Conservatory, and sang in a church choir before joining what later became National Opera and Ballet of Belarus.

Prior to her retirement in 1976, Nizhnikova was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, and named a People's Artist of the USSR. She later received the Order of Friendship of Peoples, and the Order of Francysk Skaryna.