Lydia Valeryanovna Axionova Romanian: Lidia Axionov; Russian: Лидия Валерьяновна Аксенова; July 19, 1923, Pokrovsk (since 1931 — Engels, Saratov Oblast, Saratov Region, Russia) — September 18, 2019, Chișinău, Moldova) — Soviet and Moldovan conductor, music teacher, choral theorist, music writer, the first professor of choral conducting in Moldova, Honored Artist of the Moldavian SSR.

[1][2] Axionova was born into the family of lawyer Valerian Mikhailovich Axionov (Aksenov) (06.01.1894 – January 26, 1980)[3] and teacher Klavdiya Ivanovna Aksenova (née Zhivaeva) (December 31, 1892 – June 14, 1967).

In the field of choral conducting, Axionova's "genealogy" again goes back to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – his students Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Pavel Chesnokov and N. F.

More than a thousand young people passionate about choral singing passed through the professor's hands, and many subsequently became prominent representatives of Moldovan art.

Lydia Axionova is the author of dozens of textbooks, repertoire reference books, and training programs in the specialty of choral conducting for students of higher and secondary musical educational institutions, published in Chișinău and Moscow.

She was the author of many articles and reviews in newspapers and magazines, and her warm memories of the colleagues with whom she worked over the years fill in the gaps in the history of musical art in Moldova.

[9] "... We, more than ever, realize the scale of her personality, which amazingly combined intelligence and devotion to art, depth and spiritual wisdom, kindness and innate sensitivity, majestic stature, and inner fragility.