Lyubov Ivanovna Dobrzhanskaya[a] (24 December 1905 – 3 November 1980) was a Soviet singer and actress of theater and cinema.

She won the Stalin Prize II degree in 1951[1] and the People's Artist of the USSR Award in 1965.

Dobrzhanskaya was born to a noble family on December 24, 1905, in Kiev.

In 1934 she began acting in the Russian Army Theatre in Moscow where Aleksey Popov had a great influence on her art.

She was also the author of Leonid Utyosov's song Under the Spring Foliage.