Kira Golovko, née Ivanova (11 March 1919 – 16 August 2017) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, winner of the Stalin Prize (1947) and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1957).

[2] Ivanova was born in Yessentuki, the great-niece of the poet Vyacheslav Ivanov.

In 1938 she was accepted into the auxiliary of the troupe of the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre.

Her students included Natalia Yegorova, Boris Nevzorov, and Nikolai Karachentsov.

She was the widow of Soviet Admiral Arseniy Golovko, who served as Soviet Commander of the Red Banner Northern Fleet during World War II.