On May 15, a postcard with a commemorative stamp dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversary of Lyudmila Kasatkina, a stage and screen actress, a People’s Artist of the USSR, was put into postal circulation

Lyudmila Kasatkina (1925-2012) was a Soviet theatre and film actress, a People's Artist of the USSR (1975) a Winner of the Vasiliev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (1976) and the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1968).

Lyudmila Kasatkina was born on May 15 of 1925 in the village of Novoye Selo, Vyazemsky Uyezd of the Smolensk Province. In 1943, she entered the A. Lunacharsky State Institute of Theater Arts. In 1947, upon graduation from the Institute, she was accepted into the company of the Central Theatre of the Soviet Army, where she worked all her life. The best known productions with her participation include Orpheus Goes Down to Hell by Tennessee Williams, Broadway Charades by Mary Orr and Reginald Denham, Lyudmila Razumovskaya's Your Sister and Captive, and others. In 1954, she made her debut in cinema, starring in the lead role in the comedy The Tiger Tamer. In 1964, Kasatkina starred in the title role in the first Soviet TV serial film Calling Fire on Yourself based on the namesake novel by Ovidiy Gorchakov and Janusz Przymanowski. She also gained fame for her voice work on cartoons, in particular, the character of Bagheera in the TV series Mowgli. L. Kasatkina hosted two Blue Light shows: on the 25th Anniversary of Victory Day on May 9 of 1970 and on the 29th Anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War on June 22 of 1970. She gave classes at the Russian Academy of Theater Arts and Smolensk State Institute of Arts.

Awards: an Order For Merit to the Fatherland, the fourth class (2000), an Order For Merit to the Fatherland, the third class (2005), an Order For Merit to the Fatherland, the second class (2010), an Order of Friendship (1995), an Order of the Badge of Honor (1967), an Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1980), an Order of Lenin (1985) and others.

The commemorative stamp features a portrait of Lyudmila Kasatkina against the background of a film and a theatre curtain; the main illustration is a shot from the film The Tiger Tamer.

In addition to the issue of the postcard with a commemorative stamp, JSC Marka produced special cancels for Moscow and Smolensk.


Design Artists: M. Bodrova.
Quantity: 5 thousand postcards.

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