25 December 1910] – 13 November 1997) was a Soviet and Russian actress who worked in film, television and theatre.

[2] Mironova was born in Moscow to Elizaveta Ivanovna Firsova, a schoolteacher, and Vladimir Nikolayevich Mironov, a merchant from a petite-bourgeoisie family.

[4] They typically acted out scenes of a quarrelling couple; Mironova's characters were often a domineering and ignorant wife, whilst Menaker always took the role of a weak-willed husband.

[5] The memoir ...In Their Repertoire (...В своём репертуаре) was published in 1984, written by Mironova in co-authorship with her husband, who had died two years prior to the publication.

[6] She acted on stage for the last time in Semyon Zlotnikov [ru]'s play The Old Man Left the Old Woman (Уходил старик от старухи) just a few days before her hospitalisation and death.