Valentina Petrovna Telegina (Russian: Валенти́на Петро́вна Теле́гина; 1915 — 1979) was a Soviet and Russian actress.

Telegina was born on February 23, 1915, in Novocherkassk, capital of Don Cossacks (now the Rostov Oblast).^{[citation needed]}

In 1937, she graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Performing Arts, workshop of Sergei Gerasimov. Since 1937 the actress of Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre, in 1940-1941 of the Baltic Fleet Theatre. In the cinema since 1934. She had her first big role as Motya Kotenkova in Sergei Gerasimov's film Komsomolsk.^[1]

After the war she moved to Moscow, working at the Gorky Film Studio from 1946.^[2]

She aimed to embody the character of the Russian woman in all its diversity.^{[citation needed]}

Valentina Petrovna Telegina died on October 4, 1979. She was buried in Moscow at the Mitinskoe Cemetery.^[3]

• Komsomolsk (1938) as Motya Kotenkova
• The New Teacher (1939) as Stepanida Ivanovna Lautina
• Member of the Government (1939) as Praskovya Telegina
• The District Secretary (1942) as Darya
• Springtime (1947) as Researcher
• The Train Goes East (1947) as Pasha
• The Precious Seed (1948) as Varvara Stepanovna Kurochkina
• Cossacks of the Kuban (1950) as Avdotya Khristoforovna
• The Village Doctor (1951) as medical orderly
• Sporting Honour (1951) as Vetlugina
• The Frigid Sea (1954) as Terentyevna
• World Champion (1954) as aunt Polya
• Sailor Chizhik (1955) as Avdotya Petrovna
• The Drummer's Fate (1955) as aunt Tanya
• Pavel Korchagin (1956) as moonshiner
• It Happened in Penkovo (1957) as Alevtina
• The House I Live In (1957) as Klavdia Kondratyevna Davydova
• Ballad of a Soldier (1959) as Old woman truck driver
• Resurrection (1960) as Korablyova
• Farewell, Doves (1960) as Mariya Yefimovna
• Man Follows the Sun (1961) as woman reading a letter
• The Alive and the Dead (1964) as Kulikova
• Tale About the Lost Time (1964) as Avdotya Petrovna
• Three Poplars in Plyushcikha (1967) as Fedosia Ivanovna
• We'll Live Till Monday (1968) as school nurse
• Remember Your Name (1974) as nurse in hospital
• Step Forward (1975) as nurse in hospital
• The Luncheon on the Grass (1979) as cook in pioneer camp

• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1961)^[4]
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1974)^[5]