Zinaida Maximovna Sharko (Russian: Зинаида Максимовна Шарко; 14 May 1929 – 4 August 2016) was a Russian actress of theatre and film.

She was a member of Bolshoi Drama Theatre,[1] and was awarded People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1980.

[2] After the start of World War II she took part in concerts for the wounded in the hospitals, with a children's song and dance ensemble.

[3] For these concerts, a total of 900, she was awarded the medal For valorous work in the Great Patriotic War,[2] which always considered later would call the most expensive of its awards.

After 1956 she had a six-decade-long career with the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater.