Vera Kuzmina

Vera Kuzminichna Kuzmina[a] (16 November 1923 – 22 October 2021) was a Soviet and Chuvash theatre actress and reader.

Kuzmina was born in the village of Yanshikhovo-Norvashi (now in the Yantikovsky District, Chuvashia, Russia) on 16 November 1923.

From 1947 she served at the Chuvash Academic Drama Theater named after K. V. Ivanov in Cheboksary, was a leading actress of the theatre.

Among the female roles, the images of mothers stand out in the performances: "Black Bread" by Ilbekov, "Bloody Wedding" by F. Garcia Lorca, "Siberian Division" and "The Cuckoo Cooks Everything" by Terentyev, "Narspi [ru]" by Ivanov, "Aidar" by Osipov, "Blackberries Along the Fence" by Boris Cheendykov and many others.

In 1994 a documentary film "The Cycle of Time" was shot about the work of the actress according to the script by Alekseev ("Chuvashcinema" and the Kazan Newsreel Studio).