Nina Aleksandrovna Anisimova (Russian: Нина Александровна Анисимова; born St. Petersburg, 27 January 1909, died Leningrad, 23 September 1979) was a Soviet dancer and choreographer.
She studied at the Petrograd (later Leningrad) Ballet School with Maria Fedorovna Romanova, Alexander Shiryaev, and Agrippina Vaganova.
In 1932 she created the role of Thérèse in Vasili Vainonen's Flames of Paris, demonstrating her abilities as a character dancer.
In 1938 she was wrongly accused of spying for Nazi Germany and was arrested by the NKVD.
[3] While there was insufficient evidence to prove that she had done any sort of espionage, she was declared "socially dangerous" and sent via cattle wagon to the Karlag gulag in Kazakhstan.