Aleksandra Klimova (1 October 1921 - 13 May 2005) was a Soviet
actress.Klimova was born in Zatolobovka in what was then the Kirghiz
Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic and now Kostanay District of the
Kostanay Region of Kazakhstan. From 1942 until 1945 she worked at the
Magnitogorsk Theatre and in 1949 she attended M.S. Shchepkina Theatre
School while working in Odessa. From 1953 to 1956 she worked in the
Kharkov Russian Theatre after which she joined the Maxim Gorky
National Academic Drama Theatre in Minsk after moving to the
Byelorussian SSR, now Belarus. In 1959 she was awarded the Honored
Artist of the Byelorussian SSR, followed by the People's Artist of the
Byelorussian SSR in 1963 and People's Artist of the USSR in 1969 for
her accomplishments in acting at that theatre.From 1981 until 1988
Kilomva taught at the Belarusian State Theater and Art Institute. She
sat on numerous committees, including the Soviet Peace Committee, the
Commission on Lenin and State Prizes under the Council of Ministers of
the USSR, the BSSR Commission for UNESCO, and the Board of the
Belarusian Union of Theatre Workers, which she headed. She died in
Minsk in May 2005 and is buried in its Eastern Cemetery. In 2007, a
memorial plaque was unveiled commemorating her.
actress.Klimova was born in Zatolobovka in what was then the Kirghiz
Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic and now Kostanay District of the
Kostanay Region of Kazakhstan. From 1942 until 1945 she worked at the
Magnitogorsk Theatre and in 1949 she attended M.S. Shchepkina Theatre
School while working in Odessa. From 1953 to 1956 she worked in the
Kharkov Russian Theatre after which she joined the Maxim Gorky
National Academic Drama Theatre in Minsk after moving to the
Byelorussian SSR, now Belarus. In 1959 she was awarded the Honored
Artist of the Byelorussian SSR, followed by the People's Artist of the
Byelorussian SSR in 1963 and People's Artist of the USSR in 1969 for
her accomplishments in acting at that theatre.From 1981 until 1988
Kilomva taught at the Belarusian State Theater and Art Institute. She
sat on numerous committees, including the Soviet Peace Committee, the
Commission on Lenin and State Prizes under the Council of Ministers of
the USSR, the BSSR Commission for UNESCO, and the Board of the
Belarusian Union of Theatre Workers, which she headed. She died in
Minsk in May 2005 and is buried in its Eastern Cemetery. In 2007, a
memorial plaque was unveiled commemorating her.
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