| Nina Sazonova | |
| Birth Name: | Nina Afanasievna Sazonova |
| Birth Date: | 7 January 1917 |
| Birth Place: | Konstantinovo, Alexandrovsky Uyezd, Vladimir Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Death Place: | Moscow, Russia |
| Occupation: | actress |
| Yearsactive: | 1934 — 2002 |
Nina Afanasievna Sazonova (Russian: Ни́на Афана́сьевна Сазо́нова; 1917 — 2004) was a leading actress of the Soviet Army Theatre in Moscow.
The daughter of a peasant, she joined Aleksey Popov's theatre school at the age of 17.[1] Popov went on to direct her in a number of productions at the Soviet Army Theatre. In the 1960s, she appeared in supporting roles in a slew of Soviet films and gained wider renown for her portrayal of a World War II survivor in the 1965 melodrama Womenfolk. Sazonova was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1977 and was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1987.[2]
Her later years were plagued by a series of horrible incidents, such as being severely beaten by her drunken son who proceeded to jump 11 stories out of an apartment window to his death.[3]