Irina Nikolayevna Bugrimova (March 13, 1910 – February 20, 2001) was the first female lion tamer in the Soviet Union. Called a "circus legend" by sources such as the BBC, Bugrimova was the first woman in Russia and the then-Soviet Union to work with lions, tigers, and ligers in a variety of performing acts, and trained more than 70 big cats during her career.
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13 March 1910 Kharkiv, Ukraine
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20 February 2001 (aged 90) Moscow, Russia
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