Kumushalieva Sabira
Film actress. People's Artist of the Kyrgyz SSR (1967). Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1940. Born in 1917 in the village of Tokoldosh in the Voroshilov (now Alamedin) district of the Frunze region to a peasant family. After studying from 1930 to 1932 in the senior preparatory course of the Frunze Pedagogical Technicum, she worked as a teacher in a primary school. In 1934, she joined the troupe of the Kyrgyz Dramatic Theater and over 44 years of stage activity created more than 100 vivid, colorful characters.
One of the pioneers of professional theatrical art in Kyrgyzstan, S. Kumushalieva is an example of an actress with a wide creative range. In the theater, she played the roles of Karachach ("Karachach" by K. Djantoshev), Stepanida ("Suvorov" by A. Razumovsky), Lyubov Shevtsova ("Young Guard" by A. Fadeev), Maria ("Twelfth Night" by W. Shakespeare), Agi ("Kalina Grove" by A. Korniychuk), Galchikha ("The Guilty Without Guilt" by A. Ostrovsky), and many others.
The unique talent of S. Kumushalieva was equally vividly expressed in cinema. Audiences remembered her small but psychologically nuanced roles as Urum's friend (1966, "The Sky of Our Childhood" by T. Okeeva), mother of Taylak (1969, "Shot at the Karash Pass" by B. Shamsiev), gossip (1969, "Jamilya" by I. Poplavskaya), mother of Urkui (1972, "Bow to the Fire" by T. Okeeva), grandmother Jamal (1973, "Swans Fly Here" by Yu. Boretzky), watchwoman (1975, "Red Apple" by T. Okeeva), Karyz (1975, "White Steamboat" by B. Shamsiev), Saykal (1978, "Among People" by B. Shamsiev, A. Suyundukov, diploma of the XII All-Union Film Festival in Ashgabat in 1979).
Other roles: mother of Ainaqan (1957, "Legend of the Ice Heart" by E. Shenge-lay and A. Sakharov), wife of Choke (1959, "Toktogul" by V. Nemolyaev).
Awards — medals "For Valorous Labor in the Great Patriotic War" (1945), "For Valorous Labor. In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Lenin" (1970), "In Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of Victory" (1975), "Veteran of Labor" (1976). Honorary diplomas from the Supreme Soviet of the Kyrgyz SSR (1946, 1951, 1967). Honorary diploma from the Ministry of Culture of the USSR (1957). Order of the "Badge of Honor" (1958).
Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR since 1974.
WORKS ON THE ACTRESS'S CREATIVITY
Abdykadyrov D. Sabira — daughter of the people.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," December 24, 1967.
Bokonbaev S. "Playing in crowds, I invent a role for myself..." (Sabira Kumushalieva).— Collection "Cinema of Soviet Kyrgyzstan," Moscow, "Art," 1979, pp. 253—257.
Borov A. Sabira Kumushalieva.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," February 15, 1962.
Jyrmabaev B. Life on Stage. Frunze, "Kyrgyzstan," 1976, p. 15.
