Nina Sorokina (Russian: Нина Ивановна Сорокина) (13 May 1942 – 8 October 2011[1]) was a Russian principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet and a 1987 People's Artist of the USSR recipient.
She studied in Bolshoi Ballet school under a guidance of Sofia Golovkina and became a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre by 1961.
Five years later she received her first gold medal at the International Ballet Competition in Varna and was named a People’s Artist of the U.S.S.R. by 1987.
She also participated in ballets such as Giselle where she played the main character, Don Quixote where her role was Kitri she also played Aurora in the Sleeping Beauty in which she sometimes appeared with other principal dancers such as Mikhail Lavronsky and Māris Liepa.
During her life, she also was married to Yuri Vladimirov with whom she performed in a play called Esmeralda.