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name: "Nelli Fomina"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nelli-fomina"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "9 October 1937"
died: "29 August 2020"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T10:39:55.970030+00:00"
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# Nelli Fomina

Costume designer. Born 9 October 1937 in Perm, USSR (Russia). Died 29 August 2020.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 9 October 1937, Perm, USSR (Russia)
- **Died:** 29 August 2020
- **Also known as:** Н. Фомина, N. Fomina, Нэлли Фомина

## Biography

Nelli Fomina was a Russian costume designer. She worked on Andrei Tarkovsky’s *Solaris* (1972), *Mirror* (1975) and *Stalker* (1979), as well as films by directors including Mikhail Shveitser, Eldar Ryazanov and Nikita Mikhalkov.

Born in Perm in 1937, she graduated from the Moscow Textile Institute in 1965 and joined Mosfilm as an assistant costume designer before becoming a full costume designer in the early 1970s. She later published a book of her costume designs and recollections from the Tarkovsky productions.

Fomina was awarded the title of Honoured Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation. She died in 2020.

*Sources: mosfilm.ru, imdb.com, new-east-archive.org, unikino.ru.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Stalker* (1979), Fi1m 86, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/stalker.md)

## Also known for

- *Solaris* (1972), Costume Design
- *Mirror* (1975), Costume Design

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