| Inna N. Solomonik | |
| Birth Date: | 7 August 1932 |
| Birth Place: | Balashikha Moscow Oblast, Russia |
| Death Place: | Moscow |
| Education: | PhD |
| Alma Mater: | Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages |
| Occupation: | specialist on puppet theatre |
Inna Naumovna Solomonik (7 August 1932, Moscow – 14 July 2009, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian specialist in puppet theatre. She graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages in 1973 (first degree, diploma of French teacher) and got her PhD at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow) in 1981 (thesis: Javanese Wayang Purwa performance as a semiotic system under the supervision of Dr. Vladimir I. Braginsky).[1] Inna Solomonik studied the history of the puppet theatre for over 40 years. From 1961 till 1991 she was a research fellow with the Museum of Puppets under the State Academic Central Puppet Theatre led by Sergey Obraztsov. She began her research career by investigating folk puppet shows in pre-revolutionary Russia, then in Europe and the Americas.[2] By the late 1960s she had prepared a volume of documents and descriptions (about 3000 typed pages) on the history of the Russian folk puppet theatre. In 1993, a small part of this work was printed in the book Puppets come in the stage. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Inna Solomonik turned to studies of oriental puppet performances. In 1980, she was ready with her PhD thesis. The kernel of this research was a semiotic analysis of the silhouettes of Wayang Purwa figures. Later, Inna Solomonik continued to study the Asian puppet theatre, and published two monographs on the subject (1983 and1992). In 2001, she published the book-album on Javanese Wayang Beber. She was an active member of the Nusantara Society. She died on 14 July 2009. [3]