Popova, Nadezhda Markovna

N. M. Popova was born on October 29, 1923 in the village of Dubievka, Cherkasy region ^[2] . Since 1927 she lived with her father (in Kryvyi Rih on the Inguletsky mine , since 1929 - at the mine of the mine named after Dimitrov No. 9-6 of the Krasnoarmeysky district of Donetsk region).

In 1940 she entered the acting department of the Kiev State Theater Institute . The period of Nazi occupation (1941-1943) survived in Dubievka with parents. In 1944, she worked as the head of the library of the Cherkasy Pedagogical Institute , from the fall of the same year she continued her studies at the theater institute, where her teachers were People's Artists of the USSR A.M. Buchma and G.P. Jura , People's Artists of the USSR V. B. Vilner and P. M. Nyatko , Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR I. I. Chabanenko . During her studies, she received a personal scholarship named after Maria Zankovetskaya .

August 1, 1947, having graduated from the institute with honors, she joined the troupe of the Cherkasy Drama Theater. T. G. Shevchenko, where she served as an actress until the end of her life ^[2] .

More than 15 years ^{[ when? ]} headed the regional branch of the Union of Theater Workers of Ukraine . Twice (1957, 1959) she was elected as a deputy of the Cherkasy city council of deputies of workers.

Taught ^{[ when? ]} acting and stage performance at the Cherkasy Pedagogical Institute and at the directing courses of amateur art directors at the regional department of culture.

She was buried in Cherkasy ^[2] .

Family

Father - Mark Mikhailovich Oleinik, a miner, worked in the mines of Kryvyi Rih and Donbass in 1907-1940.

Mother - Martha Fedorovna Oleynik, housewife.

Husband - Nikolai Vasilievich Popov (1907-1985), director, artistic director, director, actor of the Cherkasy Regional Music and Drama Theater. T. G. Shevchenko; Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR ^[2] .

Children:

• Nikolay - journalist, teacher;
• Eugene is an English teacher at school.

The work of N. M. Popova was distinguished by deep psychologism, great truth in life, ability to penetrate into the essence of the image, a rich and diverse arsenal of creative means, organic and sincerity, strong energy, exquisite taste, high culture of the word. She played more than 170 roles in the theater ^[2] in performances staged by directors N. V. Popov , , I. Rabichev, E. Grechuk, K. Kapatsky, O. Mushroom, A. Sitnik . She managed both the characteristic and the dramatic roles.

For her, there were neither large nor small roles, because she took her work very seriously. She played in our theater all the Shevchenko heroines.

- Varvara Prisyazhnenko, head of the literary part of the Cherkasy Regional Music and Drama Theater (cited from: ^[2] )

Theater Roles

• Mashenka - in the play of the same name by Afinogenov
• Tatyana Egorova - “Beyond the Second Front” Sobko
• Lady Milford - Schiller's "Cunning and Love"
• Lambini Kiryakulis - “The Island of Aphrodite” by A. Parnis
• Hristia - “Walking” Panas Mirny
• Irina Sestroretskaya - “The Third Pathetic” Pogodina
• Valka - Irkutsk History by Arbuzov
• Marusya Boguslavka - in the play of the same name by Staritsky
• Mavra - “On Sunday I dug a potion early” by Kobylyanskaya
• Polina - “Tribunal” Macayonka
• Varka - “Unhappy” Karpenko-Kary
• Bernard Alba - “The House of Bernard Alba” Lorca
• Claudia Pukhlyakova - “Gypsy” by Kalinin
• Anna - “Mother - Servant” by Shevchenko
• Prostakova - “Undergrowth” of Fonvizin.

• Order of the Badge of Honor (1960)
• Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1965)
• reward ^{[ what? ] The} Ministry of Culture of the USSR and the Central Committee of the Union of Cultural Workers of the USSR (1984) - for active work on cultural patronage of the village
• People's Artist of Ukraine (1993; the first among the artists of Cherkasy) ^[2] - for a significant personal contribution to the development of Ukrainian national art, high professionalism
• Honorary Citizen of Cherkasy ^[2]

• Name N. M. Popova entered ^{[ when? ]} on the Board of Honor of the city council of Cherkasy .
• A memorial plaque (sculptor Ivan Lavrinenko ) was installed on the house 188 on Khreshchatyk Street in Cherkasy, where N.M. Popova lived, in 2013 (on the day of the 90th birthday of the actress) ^[2] .

• In Cherkassy, ​​a memorial plaque was opened in memory of the People's Artist of Ukraine Nadezhda Popova (Rus.) // Kievskaya Pravda. - 2013. - No. of October 30 .