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People's Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: Народный артист Российской Федерации, ''Narodnyy artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii''), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the Russian Federation, is an honorary and the highest title awarded to citizens of the
Russian Federation Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
, all outstanding in the
performing arts The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which are the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Perform ...
, whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts (
theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...
,
music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...
,
dance Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...
,
circus A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, and unicyclist ...
,
cinema Cinema may refer to: Film * Cinematography, the art of motion-picture photography * Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of a moving image ** Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking * ...
, etc.). It succeeded both the all-Soviet Union "
People's Artist of the USSR People's Artist of the USSR ( rus, Народный артист СССР, Narodny artist SSSR), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union. Nomenclature and significan ...
" award (Народный артист СССР), and more directly the local republic's "
People's Artist of the RSFSR People's Artist of the RSFSR (russian: Народный артист РСФСР, ''Narodnyj artist RSFSR'') was an honorary title granted to Soviet Union artists, including theatre and film directors, choreographers, music performers, and orchest ...
" award (Народный артист РСФСР), after the
dissolution of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
. Now, the status of the People's Artist of the Russian Federation has risen above that of the earlier RSFSR award. There are presently two levels to this award: * The lower
Honored Artist of Russia Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: link=no, Заслуженный артист Российской Федерации, ''Zasluzhenny artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii'') is an honorary title in the Russian Federation. The title is ...
(Заслуженный артист ''Zasluzhenniy artist'') also translates as "Meritorious Artist". This was equivalent to the earlier «Заслуженный артист РСФСР», which became «Заслуженный артист Российской Федерации». * The higher People's Artist of Russia (Народный артист России, ''Narodny artist'') is the highest honorary title of the Russian Federation for outstanding achievements in the field of theater, music, circus, vaudeville and film art. Receiving the lower Honored... (Заслуженный, ''Zasluzhenniy artist'') award makes the recipient eligible to receive the higher People's... (Народный, ''Narodny'') award at a later time. For example, the light entertainment singer
Sergei Georgievich Zakharov Sergey Georgievich Zakharov (russian: Серге́й Гео́ргиевич Заха́ров; May 1, 1950 – February 13, 2019) was a Russian singer who had a rare lyrical baritone. Biography Zakharov was born May 1, 1950 in Mykolaiv in the U ...
was awarded Honored Artist of the RSFSR (Заслуженный артист РСФСР) in 1988, then People's Artist of Russia (Народный артист России) in 1996.


Categories awarded

The awards may be issued to people working in the following fields: * Teacher * Artist *
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* Architect * Chemist * Miner *
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* Military Pilot * Military Expert * Military Navigator * Doctor *
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* Scientist *
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* Husbandry * Inventor * Designer * Forester * Test Pilot * Mechanic * Metallurgist *
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* Border Guard * Community services worker * Foreign Service Employee * Health Worker * Cultural Worker * Forestry Worker * Oil & Gas Industry Worker * Employee of the Food Industry * Employee of the
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Other professionals are open to attaining the title as well as those listed.


Gallery

File:Yuriy Lyubimov.jpg, Stage actor
Yuri Lyubimov Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov (russian: Ю́рий Петро́вич Люби́мов; 5 October 2014) was a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated with the internationally renowned Taganka Theatre, which he founded in 1964. He was one ...
File:Nino Ananiashvili.jpg, Ballet dancer
Nina Ananiashvili Nina Ananiashvili (born: ''Nino Ananiashvili'', ka, ნინო ანანიაშვილი; born March 19, 1963) is a Georgian ballerina and artistic director of the State Ballet of Georgia. She has been described by the '' Daily Teleg ...
File:Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky in Vitebsk.jpg, Operatic singer
Dmitri Hvorostovsky Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky (russian: Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович Хворосто́вский, ; 16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017) was a Russian operatic baritone. Early life and education Hvorostovsky was born i ...
File:Valery Leontiev at Laima Rendez Vous Jurmala 2017 (2).jpg, Singer
Valery Leontiev Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev (russian: link=no, Валерий Яковлевич Леонтьев; born 19 March 1949) is a Soviet and Russian pop singer, sometimes songwriter and actor whose popularity peaked in the early 1980s. He was titled a ...
File:Valery Gergiev David Shankbone 2010.jpg, Conductor
Valery Gergiev Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (russian: Вале́рий Абиса́лович Ге́ргиев, ; os, Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери, Gergity Abisaly fyrt Valeri; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company d ...
File:Yuriy Antonov.jpg, Composer and singer
Yuri Antonov Yuri Mikhailovich Antonov (russian: Юрий Михайлович Антонов; born 19 February 1945 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian composer, singer and musician, People's Artist of Russia (1997).
File:MIBF2013 img 06 Andrey Makarevich.jpg, Musician
Andrey Makarevich Andrey Vadimovich Makarevich PAR (russian: link=no, Андре́й Вади́мович Макаре́вич; born 11 December 1953 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian rock musician and the founder of Russia's oldest ...
File:Artemev eduard 1.jpg, Composer
Eduard Artemyev Eduard Nikolayevich Artemyev ( rus, Эдуа́рд Никола́евич Арте́мьев, p=ɨdʊˈart ɐrˈtʲemʲjɪf; born 30 November 1937) is a Soviet and Russian composer of electronic music and film scores. Outside of Russia, he is ...
File:David Toukhmanov.jpg, Composer
David Tukhmanov David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov PAR (russian: Дави́д Фёдорович Тухма́нов, was born on July 20, 1940, in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian composer. People's Artist of Russia (2000), State Prize of Ru ...
File:Rozenbaum.jpg,
Bard In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise t ...
Alexander Rosenbaum Alexander Yakovlevich Rosenbaum PAR (russian: link=no, Александр Яковлевич Розенбаум, ''Aleksandr Jakovlevič Rozenbaum'') (born September 13, 1951) is a Russian bard from Saint Petersburg. Graduated from the First ...
File:Alexander Zatsepin M2017-05.jpg, Composer
Aleksandr Zatsepin Aleksandr Sergeyevich Zatsepin (russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Заце́пин; born 10 March 1926) is a Soviet and Russian composer, known for his soundtracks to movies, notably comedies directed by Leonid Gaidai. People's ...
File:Alexander Sokurov in Fajr International Film Festival 01.jpg, Filmmaker
Alexander Sokurov Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov, PAR (russian: link=no, Александр Николаевич Сокуров; born 14 June 1951) is a Russian filmmaker. His most significant works include a feature film, ''Russian Ark'' (2002), filmed in a s ...
File:Philipp Kirkorov in Vitebsk.jpg, Singer
Philipp Kirkorov Philipp Bedrosovich Kirkorov PAR (russian: Филипп Бедросович Киркоров; bg, Филип Бедросов Киркоров, Filip Bedrosov Kirkorov; born 30 April 1967) is a Bulgarian-born Russian pop singer. He is a five ...
File:Svetlana Zakharova in Moscow 06-2015.jpg, Ballet dancer Svetlana Zakharova File:Sergei Bezrukov 2008.jpg, Actor
Sergey Bezrukov Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov (russian: link=no, Серге́й Вита́льевич Безру́ков, born 18 October 1973) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor, singer, People's Artist of Russia, the laureate of the State Prize of th ...
File:Anna Netrebko - Romy 2013 a.jpg, Operatic singer
Anna Netrebko Anna Yuryevna Netrebko (russian: Анна Юрьевна Нетребко; born 18 September 1971) is an Austrian operatic soprano with an active international career and performed prominently at the Salzburg Festival, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna ...
File:Nikolay Baskov.jpg, Singer
Nikolay Baskov Nikolay Victorovich Baskov (russian: link=no, Николай Викторович Басков; born 15 October 1976) is a Russian tenor who performs in both operatic and popular music styles. His honors include commendations as Meritorious ...
File:Matsuev.JPG, Classical pianist
Denis Matsuev Denis Leonidovich Matsuev ( rus, Дени́с Леони́дович Мацу́ев /ma'tsujef/; born June 11, 1975) is a Russian classical pianist and occasional jazz performer. Biography Born in Irkutsk, Soviet Union, Matsuev is the only child o ...
File:Mikhail Zhvanetsky Odessa International Film Festival 1.jpg, Writer, satirist
Mikhail Zhvanetsky ) , birth_date = , birth_place = Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) , death_date = , death_place = Moscow, Russia , genre = Satire , subject = , influences = , influen ...
File:Константин Хабенский.jpg, Actor
Konstantin Khabensky Konstantin Yurievich Khabensky, PAR (russian: link=no, Константин Юрьевич Хабенский; born 11 January 1972) is a Russian actor of stage and film, director and philanthropist. From 1997 he was part of the Saint Petersbu ...
File:Чулпан Хаматова.jpg, Actress
Chulpan Khamatova Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova PAR (russian: Чулпан Наилевна Хаматова; tt-Cyrl, Чулпан Наил кызы Хаматова; born 1 October 1975) is a Russian film, theater and TV actress Biography Early life and theat ...
File:Валерий Халилов.jpg, Conductor
Valery Khalilov Valery Mikhaylovich Khalilov (; 30 January 1952 – 25 December 2016) was an Uzbek-born Russian military band conductor and composer. A lieutenant general in the Russian military, he was the Senior Director of Music of the Military Band Servic ...
File:Ksenia Rappoport.jpg, Actress
Kseniya Rappoport Kseniya Aleksandrovna Rappoport (russian: link=no, Ксе́ния Алекса́ндровна Раппопо́рт; born 25 March 1974) is a Russian actress. She graduated in 2000 from Saint Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Arts and was immedi ...
File:Lev Leschenko (cropped).jpg, Singer
Lev Leshchenko Lev Valerianovich Leshchenko (russian: link=no, Лев Валерьянович Лещенко; born 1 February 1942), is a Russian singer, who is best known for his rendition of "Den Pobedy" and the 1980 Summer Olympics closing ceremony theme ...


People's Artist of the Russian Federation (list)


1992

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Vadim Abdrashitov Vadim Yusupovich Abdrashitov (russian: Вадим Юсупович Абдрашитов, tt-Cyrl, Вадим Йосыф улы Габдерәшитов) is one of Russian cinema's most notable independent director (film), directors. He is inter ...
— film director *
Vera Alentova Vera Valentinovna Alentova (russian: Ве́ра Валенти́новна Але́нтова; born 21 February 1942) is a USSR, Soviet and Russian actress famous for her leading role in ''Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears''. Biography Vera Alento ...
– actress *
Gennadi Bortnikov Gennadi Leonidovich Bortnikov (russian: Генна́дий Леони́дович Бо́ртников; 1 April 1939 – 24 March 2007) was a Russian and Soviet actor. Biography His mother was a housewife, father and brother both pilots. ...
– actor * Ivan I. Krasko – actor *
Yuri Lyubimov Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov (russian: Ю́рий Петро́вич Люби́мов; 5 October 2014) was a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated with the internationally renowned Taganka Theatre, which he founded in 1964. He was one ...
– actor *
Tamara Nosova Tamara Nosova (russian: Тамара Макаровна Носова; 21 November 1927 – 25 March 2007) was a Soviet and Russian actress, who was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia in 1992. She appeared in 27 films between 19 ...
– actress *
Tatiana Samoilova Tatiana Yevgenyevna Samoilova (russian: link=no, Татья́на Евге́ньевна Само́йлова; 4 May 1934 – 4 May 2014) was a Soviet and Russian film actress best known for her lead role in ''The Cranes Are Flying'' (1957). She ...
– actress *
Vitaly Solomin Vitaly Mefodievich Solomin (russian: link=no, Виталий Мефодьевич Соломин; 12 December 194127 May 2002) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter, best remembered for playing Dr. Watson in a series of Sherlock ...
– actor *
Tatyana Vasilyeva Tatyana Grigoryevna Vasilyeva (russian: Татья́на Григо́рьевна Васи́льевa; born 28 February 1947) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, and TV presenter. She has appeared in more than seventy films since 1 ...
– actress


1993

*
Lev Dodin Lev Abramovich Dodin (russian: Лев Абрамович Додин, born 1944) is a modern Russian theater director, the leader of Saint Petersburg Maly Drama Theater. Biography Lev Dodin was born in Novokuznetsk in 1944. He first experienced ...
– theatre director *
Pyotr Fomenko Pyotr Naumovich Fomenko (russian: Пётр Нау́мович Фоме́нко; 13 July 1932 in Moscow – 9 August 2012 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater director, teacher, artistic director of the Moscow theater Pyotr Fomenko ...
– film and theatre director *
Georgy Garanian Georgy Aramovich Garanian (russian: Гео́ргий Ара́мович Гараня́н; 15 August 1934 – 11 January 2010) was an ethnic Armenian Russian jazz saxophone player, bandleader and composer. He was the People's Artist of Russia in ...
– musician *
Boris Khimichev Boris Petrovich Khimichev (russian: Борис Петрович Химичев; 12 January 1933 – 14 September 2014) was a Ukrainian-born Russian actor who was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1993. Khimichev worked at the Mayakovsky Theatre ...
– actor *
Olga Ostroumova Olga Mikhailovna Ostroumova (russian: О́льга Миха́йловна Остроу́мова; born 21 September 1947) is a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. Best known for her roles in films ''We'll Live Till Monday'' ...
– actress * Ruzhena Sikora – singer * Sergei Solovyov – director *
Evgeniy Steblov Yevgeny Yurievich Steblov (russian: Евге́ний Ю́рьевич Стебло́в; born December 8, 1945, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, honored as a People's Artist of Russia in 1993. He serves as First Deputy Chair ...
– actor *
Olga Volkova Olga Volkova may refer to: * Olha Volkova (born 1986), Ukrainian freestyle skier * Olga Volkova (actress) Olga Vladimirovna Volkova (russian: Ольга Владимировна Волкова; born 15 April 1939 in Leningrad) is a Russian theatr ...
– actress * Irina Zhurina – singer


1994

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Liya Akhedzhakova Liya Medzhidovna Akhedzhakova (russian: link=no, Лия Меджидовна Ахеджакова; born 9 July 1938) is a Soviet and Russian film, stage and voice actress who received the title of People's Artist of Russia in 1994. She received two ...
– actress * Oleksandr Bondurianskyi – pianist *
Boris Novikov Boris Kuzmich Novikov (russian: Бори́с Кузьми́ч Но́виков; 13 July 1925, Ryazhsk, Ryazan Governorate, RSFSR — 25 July 1997, Moscow) was a Soviet actor of theater and cinema. People's Artist of Russia (1994). Biography Bo ...
– actor *
Albert Filozov Albert Leonidovich Filozov (russian: Альбepт Лeoнидoвич Филозoв; 25 June 1937 – 11 April 2016) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was a People's Artist of Russia.Yevgeny Krylatov Yevgeny Pavlovich Krylatov (russian: Евге́ний Па́влович Крыла́тов; 23 February 1934 – 8 May 2019) was a Soviet and Russian composer who wrote songs for over 120 Soviet and Russian movies and animated films. Biogr ...
– composer *
Rimma Markova Rimma Vasilievna Markova (russian: Римма Васильевна Маркова; 3 March 1925 – 15 January 2015) was a Russian film actress. She was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1994, whereas her younger brother Leonid Markov was nam ...
– actress * Andrey Martynov – actor * Irina Muravyova – actress *
Georgy Natanson Georgy Grigorievich Nathanson (russian: Гео́ргий Григо́рьевич Натансо́н; 23 May 1921 – 17 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian theater and cinema director, screenwriter and playwright. Worked as director at Mosfilm ...
– director *
Valery Nosik Valery Benediktovich Nosik (Валерий Бенедиктович Носик, 9 October 1940, Moscow, USSR, — 4 January 1995, Moscow, Russian Federation) was a Soviet Russian film and stage actor, the People's Artist of Russia (1994) who ap ...
– actor *
Victor Pavlov Viktor Pavlovich Pavlov (russian: Ви́ктор Па́влович Па́влов; October 5, 1940 – August 24, 2006) was a Russian stage and film actor. Pavlov worked in some of the most popular theatres of Moscow: 1963–1965 - Sovremen ...
– actor * Elvina Podchernikova-Elvorti – circus performer *
Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov Aleksandr Shalvovich Porokhovshchikov (russian: Александр Шалвович Пороховщиков, 31 January 1939, Moscow – 15 April 2012, Moscow) was a Russian film and theatre actor and film director, People's Artist of Russia ...
– actor, director * Viktor Alexejewitsch Romanko – bayan-virtuoso *
Boris Shcherbakov Boris Vasilevich Shcherbakov (russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Щербако́в; born 11 December 1949) is Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. People's Artist of Russian Federation (1994). Winner of USSR State Prize (1985). ...
– actor *
Nina Usatova Nina Nikolayevna Usatova (russian: Ни́на Никола́евна Уса́това; born October 1, 1951, Altai Krai) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress. People's Artist of Russia (1994). Biography She graduated from high school ...
– actress * Anatoly Vasilyev – actor *
Gennadi Yukhtin Gennadi (birth name Geniy) Gavrilovich Yukhtin (russian: Геннадий (Гений) Гаврилович Юхтин; 30 March 1932 – 18 February 2022) was a Russian film and stage actor. Life and career At the age of fourteen, Yukhtin wa ...
– actor *
Aleksei Zharkov Aleksei Dmitrievich Zharkov (russian: Алексей Дмитриевич Жарков; 27 March 1948 – 5 June 2016) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. He was a People's Artist of Russia (1994). Biography Aleksei Dmitrievich Zharko ...
– actor *
Lev Leshchenko Lev Valerianovich Leshchenko (russian: link=no, Лев Валерьянович Лещенко; born 1 February 1942), is a Russian singer, who is best known for his rendition of "Den Pobedy" and the 1980 Summer Olympics closing ceremony theme ...
– singer


1995

*
Nina Ananiashvili Nina Ananiashvili (born: ''Nino Ananiashvili'', ka, ნინო ანანიაშვილი; born March 19, 1963) is a Georgian ballerina and artistic director of the State Ballet of Georgia. She has been described by the '' Daily Teleg ...
– ballet dancer * Yevgeniya Glushenko – actress *
Dmitri Hvorostovsky Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky (russian: Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович Хворосто́вский, ; 16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017) was a Russian operatic baritone. Early life and education Hvorostovsky was born i ...
– singer *
Igor Kostolevsky Igor Matveyevich Kostolevsky (russian: Игорь Матвеевич Костолевский; born 10 September 1948) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He has received the People's Artist of Russia title in 1995. Kostolevsky is best k ...
– actor *
Savva Kulish Savva Yakovlevich Kulish (russian: Са́вва Я́ковлевич Кули́ш; 17 October 1936 – 9 June 2001) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed eight films between 1966 and 1994. His 1979 film ''Takeoff'' won the ...
– director * Gennady Pasko – painter * Vladimir Rubin – composer *
Yevgeniya Simonova Yevgeniya Pavlovna Simonova (russian: Евгения Павловна Симонова, born 1 June 1955) is a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actress best known for her parts in films '' Afonya'' (1975), '' An Ordinary Miracle'' (1978), ''T ...
– actress *
Vladimir Verbitsky Vladimir Igoryevich Verbitsky (russian: Владимир Игоревич Вербицкий; born 1943) is a Soviet and Australian conductor. He was born in Leningrad. He studied piano and conducting at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He has ...
– conductor


1996

* Svetlana Bezrodnaya – violinist * Alexander Burdonsky – theater director *
Nikolai Burlyayev Nikolai Petrovich Burlyayev (russian: Николай Петрович Бурляев; born 3 August 1946) is a Soviet and Russian actor and film director. Born into a family of actors, Burlyayev started his career in film and theatre when he was ...
– actor *
Vyacheslav Dobrynin Vyacheslav Grigoryevich Dobrynin ( rus, Вячесла́в Григо́рьевич Добры́нин, born Antonov/Анто́нов on January 25, 1946, Ryazanskaya oblast, Russia) is a popular Russian composer and singer also known as ''Docto ...
– composer, singer *
Valery Fokin Valery Vladimirovich Fokin (russian: Валерий Владимирович Фокин; born 28 February 1946) is a Soviet and Russian theatrical and film director, actor and pedagogue. He is the Artistic Director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre in ...
– theatre director *
Valery Gergiev Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (russian: Вале́рий Абиса́лович Ге́ргиев, ; os, Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери, Gergity Abisaly fyrt Valeri; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company d ...
– conductor *
Nadezhda Gracheva Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Gracheva (russian: Надежда Александровна Грачёва; born 21 December 1969) is a Russian ballerina and ballet teacher who has danced with the Bolshoi Ballet. Early life Born in Semipalatinsk, Kazakh ...
– ballet dancer *
Igor Krutoy Igor Yakovlevich Krutoy (russian: Игорь Яковлевич Крутой) or Ihor Yakovych Krutyi ( uk, Ігор Якович Крутий, born on July 29, 1954), is a Ukrainian and Russian music composer, performer, producer and musical p ...
– composer *
Valery Leontiev Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev (russian: link=no, Валерий Яковлевич Леонтьев; born 19 March 1949) is a Soviet and Russian pop singer, sometimes songwriter and actor whose popularity peaked in the early 1980s. He was titled a ...
– singer *
Tamara Miansarova Tamara Grigoryevna Miansarova (née Remnyova, russian: Тамара Григорьевна Миансарова, links=no; 5 March 1931 – 12 July 2017) was a Soviet Ukrainian lyric soprano, pop singer and professor of Russian Academy of Theatre ...
– singer *
Yuriy Norshteyn Yuri Borisovich Norstein, PAR (russian: link=no, Ю́рий Бори́сович Норште́йн; born 15 September 1941) is a Soviet and Russian animator best known for his animated shorts ''Hedgehog in the Fog'' and '' Tale of Tales''. Sin ...
– director *
Valery Polyansky Valery Kuzmich Polyansky (Russian: ''Валерий Кузьмич Полянский''; born April 19, 1949 in Moscow) is a Russian orchestral and choral conductor. He is a professor of the Moscow Conservatory, People's Artist of Russia (1996), ...
– conductor *
Natalya Seleznyova Natalya Igorevna Seleznyova (russian: Ната́лья И́горевна Селезнёва; born 19 June 1945) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. Biography She first took the stage at the age of six, participating in the Red Arm ...
– actress *
Nikolay Serebryakov Nikolay Nikolayevich Serebryakov (russian: Николай Николаевич Серебряков; 14 December 1928, Leningrad – 9 August 2005, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian director of animated films and a People's Artist of Russia Peop ...
– director *
Mikhail Svetin Mikhail Semyonovich Svetin (russian: Михаил Семёнович Светин; born Michail Solomonovitch Goltsman; 11 December 1929 – 30 August 2015) was a Soviet, Russian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films. Svetin's room 2 ...
– actor *
Margarita Terekhova Margarita Borisovna Terekhova (russian: Маргари́та Бори́совна Те́рехова; born August 25, 1942 in Turinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress. She was awarded the title ...
– actress * Sergei Zakharov – singer


1997

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Yuri Antonov Yuri Mikhailovich Antonov (russian: Юрий Михайлович Антонов; born 19 February 1945 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian composer, singer and musician, People's Artist of Russia (1997).
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Victor Balashov Viktor Ivanovich Balashov (Russian: Виктор Иванович Балашов; 24 December 1924 – 23 June 2021) was a Soviet and Russian radio and television presenter. He was best known as the host for the USSR Union Radio, from 1944. Fr ...
– radio host * Valery Lantratov- ballet dancer *
Alexander Lenkov Alexander Sergeyevich Lenkov (russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Ленько́в; 17 May 1943 – 21 April 2014) was a Soviet-Russian film, stage and voice actor. He is probably best known for his voice acting in animated fil ...
– actor *
Alexander Malinin Aleksandr Nikolaevich Malinin (russian: Александр Николаевич Малинин, born Vyguzov, russian: Выгузов; 16 November 1958) is a Russian singer who was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1997. Career Malinin was bo ...
– musician *
Vladimir Matorin Vladimir Anatolyevich Matorin (russian: Влади́мир Анато́льевич Мато́рин; May 2, 1948) is a famous Russian opera singer. He is considered one of the greatest contemporary bass singer in Russia. Biography Vladimir was ...
– singer * Klara Novikova – actress * Kirill Tikhonov – conductor


1998

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Olga Barnet Olga Borisovna Barnet (russian: О́льга Бори́совна Ба́рнет; 3 September 1951 – 25 June 2021)Vitali Konyayev – actor *
Fuat Mansurov Fuat Mansurov ( tt-Cyrl, Фоат Шакир улы Мансуров, russian: Мансуров, Фуат Шакирович) (January 10, 1928 – June 12, 2010) was a Soviet and Russian conductor. Biography Mansurov was born on 10 January 1928 ...
– conductor * Sergey Migitsko – actor *
Yuri Nikolaev Yuri Alexandrovich Nikolaev (russian: Юрий Александрович Николаев; born 16 December 1948, Chisinau) is a Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinen ...
– TV and radio host, actor * Maria Pakhomenko – singer *
Boris Plotnikov Boris Grigoryevich Plotnikov (russian: Борис Григорьевич Плотников; 2 April 1949 – 2 December 2020)
– actor *
Gennadi Poloka Gennadi Ivanovich Poloka (russian: Генна́дий Ива́нович Поло́ка; 15 July 1930, Kuybyshev – 5 December 2014, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. People's Artist of Russia (19 ...
– actor, director *
Nina Ruslanova Nina Ivanovna Ruslanova (russian: Нина Ивановна Русланова; 5 December 1945 – 21 November 2021) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. She was honored as a People's Artist of Russia (1998).Sergei Skripka Sergei Ivanovich Skripka (russian: Серге́й Иванович Скрипка; October 5, 1949 in Kharkov) is a Soviet and Russian conductor, and a People's Artist of Russia People's Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: Народны ...
– conductor *
Larisa Udovichenko Larisa Ivanovna Udovichenko (russian: link=no, Лариса Ивановна Удовиченко; born 29 April 1955, Vienna, Austria) is a Russian actress. People's Artist of Russia (1998).
– actress *
Emmanuil Vitorgan Emmanuil Gedeonovich Vitorgan (russian: Эммануи́л Гедео́нович Виторга́н; born 27 December 1939) is a Soviet, Russian film and theater actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1990). People's Artist of Russia (1998). He acte ...
– actor


1999

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Alla Bayanova Alla Nikolayevna Bayanova (russian: Алла Николаевна Баянова; 18 May 1914 – 30 August 2011) was a Russian Romance singer sometimes compared with Édith Piaf for her simple yet dramatic style of performance. Bayanova was bor ...
– singer * Andrei Chistyakov – conductor *
Valentin Dikul Valentin Ivanovich Dikul (russian: Валентин Иванович Дикуль; born 3 April 1948) is a circus artist and rehabilitation specialist. He is a People's Artist of Russia (1999) and the head of the Russian medical and rehabilitatio ...
– circus performer * Vladimir Ilyin – actor *
Alexander Gradsky Alexander Borisovich Gradsky (russian: Алекса́ндр Бори́сович Гра́дский; born Alexander Borisovich Fradkin, 3 November 1949 – 28 November 2021) was a Russian rock singer, bard, multi-instrumentalist and composer. H ...
– musician * David Goloschekin – musician *
Nadezhda Kadysheva Nadezhda Nikitichna Kadysheva (russian: Надeжда Никитична Кадышeва, ; born 1 June 1959, Gorki, Leninogorsky District, Tatar ASSR) is Russian singer of Erzyan heritage, soloist of the Zolotoe Koltso. Honorary Citizen of Bug ...
– singer *
Mikhail Kononov Mikhail Ivanovich Kononov (russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Ко́нонов) (25 April 1940 – 16 July 2007) was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of Russia (1999). Biography He first appeared on stage at school. In 1963 ...
– actor * Aristarkh Livanov – actor *
Lyudmila Polyakova Lyudmila Petrovna Polyakova (russian: Людми́ла Петро́вна Поляко́ва; born January 28, 1939, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian actress; she is a People's Artist of Russia (1999). Biography She graduated in 1964 from the Mik ...
– actress *
Andrey Makarevich Andrey Vadimovich Makarevich PAR (russian: link=no, Андре́й Вади́мович Макаре́вич; born 11 December 1953 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian rock musician and the founder of Russia's oldest ...
– musician *
Tatyana Piletskaya Tatyana Lvovna Piletskaya PARJoseph Raihelgauz – theatre director *
Alexey Rybnikov Alexey Lvovich Rybnikov (russian: links=no, Алексей Львович Рыбников; born July 17, 1945) is a modern Russian composer. He is the author of music for Soviet and Russian musicals (rock operas) ''The Star and Death of Joaqui ...
– composer *
Alexey Sheynin Alexey Igorevich Sheynin (russian: Алексей Игоревич Шейнин; born December 18, 1947, Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian actor of drama theater and cinema. Biography Born in Leningrad on December 18, 1947. In 1968 he graduate ...
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Nikolai Sorokin Nikolai Evgenievich Sorokin (russian: Николай Евгеньевич Сорокин; February 15, 1952 – March 26, 2013) was a Russian theatre and film actor, theatre director, educator, and People's Artist of Russia (1999). He was a ...
– actor


2000s


2000

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Ivan Bortnik Ivan Sergeyevich Bortnik (russian: link=no, Иван Сергеевич Бортник; 16 April 1939 – 4 January 2019Alexander Rosenbaum Alexander Yakovlevich Rosenbaum PAR (russian: link=no, Александр Яковлевич Розенбаум, ''Aleksandr Jakovlevič Rozenbaum'') (born September 13, 1951) is a Russian bard from Saint Petersburg. Graduated from the First ...
– musician * Vladimir Aleksandrovich Steklov, Vladimir Steklov – actor * Nikolay Tsiskaridze – ballet dancer * Aleksandra Markovna Zakharova, Alexandra Zakharova – actress


2002

* Olga Borodina – singer * Gennady Gladkov – composer * Boris Klyuyev – actor * Tatyana Kravchenko – actress * Vladimir Ponkin – conductor * Stahan Rakhimov – singer * Nikolay Rastorguyev – singer * Karen Shakhnazarov – filmmaker * Elena Yakovleva – actress * Leonid Yakubovich – actor * Alla Yoshpe – singer


2003

* Kama Ginkas – theatre director * Igor Kashintsev – actor * Andrey Kovalchuk – sculptor * Oleg Menshikov – actor * Leonid Nechayev – director * Viktor Rakov – actor * Ilya Reznik – poet * Andrei Smirnov (actor), Andrei Smirnov – actor, director * Zinovy Vysokovsky – actor *
Aleksandr Zatsepin Aleksandr Sergeyevich Zatsepin (russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Заце́пин; born 10 March 1926) is a Soviet and Russian composer, known for his soundtracks to movies, notably comedies directed by Leonid Gaidai. People's ...
– composer


2004

* Oleg Anofriyev – actor, musician * Igor Yuryevich Ivanov – actor * Zinaida Ignatyeva – pianist * Tamara Gverdtsiteli – singer * Yevgeny Mironov (actor), Yevgeny Mironov – actor * Alexander Mitta – director * Alexander Morozov (composer), Alexander Morozov – composer * Vladimir Nazarov (musician), Vladimir Nazarov – musician * Andrey Smolyakov – actor *
Alexander Sokurov Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov, PAR (russian: link=no, Александр Николаевич Сокуров; born 14 June 1951) is a Russian filmmaker. His most significant works include a feature film, ''Russian Ark'' (2002), filmed in a s ...
– director * Maurice Yaklashkin – conductor * Valeriya Zaklunna – actress


2005

* Sergei Artsibashev – director * Yuriy Nazarov (actor), Yuriy Nazarov – actor * Sergei Roldugin – cellist * Boris Leonidovich Romanov, Boris Romanov – actor * Raisa Ryazanova – actress * Valentin Smirnitsky – actor * Svetlana Smirnova (actress), Svetlana Smirnova – actress * Valentin Yudashkin – fashion designer * Era Ziganshina – actress


2006

* Svyatoslav Belza – critic * Yuri Bosco – artist * Aleksandr Galibin – actor * Sergei Garmash – actor * Vitaly Logvinovsky – actor * Ulyana Lopatkina – ballet dancer * Alexander Pyatkov – actor * Angelina Vovk – actress * Slava Zaitsev – fashion designer * Marina Zudina – actress


2007

* Irina Alfyorova – actress * Aleksandr Domogarov – actor * Margarita Fyodorova – pianist * Vladimir Galouzine – singer * Aleksei Guskov – actor * Dmitry Kharatyan – actor * Irina Rozanova – actress * Diana Vishneva – ballet dancer * Konstantin Lopushansky – director


2008

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Sergey Bezrukov Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov (russian: link=no, Серге́й Вита́льевич Безру́ков, born 18 October 1973) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor, singer, People's Artist of Russia, the laureate of the State Prize of th ...
– actor * Yuri Chernov – actor *
Philipp Kirkorov Philipp Bedrosovich Kirkorov PAR (russian: Филипп Бедросович Киркоров; bg, Филип Бедросов Киркоров, Filip Bedrosov Kirkorov; born 30 April 1967) is a Bulgarian-born Russian pop singer. He is a five ...
– singer * Yulia Makhalina – ballet dancer *
Anna Netrebko Anna Yuryevna Netrebko (russian: Анна Юрьевна Нетребко; born 18 September 1971) is an Austrian operatic soprano with an active international career and performed prominently at the Salzburg Festival, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna ...
– singer


2009

* Maria Alexandrova – ballet dancer *
Nikolay Baskov Nikolay Victorovich Baskov (russian: link=no, Николай Викторович Басков; born 15 October 1976) is a Russian tenor who performs in both operatic and popular music styles. His honors include commendations as Meritorious ...
– singer * Alexey Buldakov – actor * Oleg Mityaev – musician * Anatoly Mukasei – cinematographer * Valentina Telichkina – actress * Roman Viktyuk – actor, director


2010s


2010

* Irina Allegrova – singer * Vladimir Khotinenko – actor, director * Dmitry Malikov – musician * Vladimir Mashkov – actor * Aleksei Serebryakov (actor), Aleksei Serebryakov – actor * Vyacheslav Spesivtsev – actor * Alexander Buinov – singer


2011

* Fyodor Dobronravov – actor * Vera Glagoleva – actress and film director * Andrei Khrzhanovsky – film director *
Denis Matsuev Denis Leonidovich Matsuev ( rus, Дени́с Леони́дович Мацу́ев /ma'tsujef/; born June 11, 1975) is a Russian classical pianist and occasional jazz performer. Biography Born in Irkutsk, Soviet Union, Matsuev is the only child o ...
– pianist * Boris Nevzorov – actor, director * Irma Nioradze – ballet dancer


2012

* Dmitry Gudanov – ballet dancer *
Konstantin Khabensky Konstantin Yurievich Khabensky, PAR (russian: link=no, Константин Юрьевич Хабенский; born 11 January 1972) is a Russian actor of stage and film, director and philanthropist. From 1997 he was part of the Saint Petersbu ...
– actor *
Chulpan Khamatova Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova PAR (russian: Чулпан Наилевна Хаматова; tt-Cyrl, Чулпан Наил кызы Хаматова; born 1 October 1975) is a Russian film, theater and TV actress Biography Early life and theat ...
– actress


2013

* Nikolai Chindyajkin – actor * Nikolai Lugansky – pianist * Natalya Gvozdikova – actress * Lev Prygunov – actor * Igor Sklyar – actor * Aleksandr Trofimov (actor), Aleksandr Trofimov – actor * Valeriya – singer


2014

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Valery Khalilov Valery Mikhaylovich Khalilov (; 30 January 1952 – 25 December 2016) was an Uzbek-born Russian military band conductor and composer. A lieutenant general in the Russian military, he was the Senior Director of Music of the Military Band Servic ...
– conductor, composer


2015

* Arkady Arkanov – actor (posthumous) *
Kseniya Rappoport Kseniya Aleksandrovna Rappoport (russian: link=no, Ксе́ния Алекса́ндровна Раппопо́рт; born 25 March 1974) is a Russian actress. She graduated in 2000 from Saint Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Arts and was immedi ...
– actress


2016

*Marina Esipenko – actress *Nikolay Lazarev – actor * Vladimir Nosik – actor * Yuliya Rutberg – actress *Alexander Sladkovsky – conductor * Igor Vernik – actor


2017

*Olga Pogodina – actress


2018

*Viktoria Tereshkina – ballet dancer * Nikolai Lebedev (actor), Nikolai Lebedev - actor * Yekaterina Shipulina - principal dancer


2019

* Mikhail Porechenkov - actor * Angelina Vovk - presenter * Igor Nikolayev - composer, singer


2020s


2020

* Anna Kovalchuk - actress * Felix Korobov - conductor * Aleksei Kravchenko (actor), Aleksei Kravchenko - actor * Maria Mironova - actress


2021

* Andrey Ilyin - actor * Galina Tyunina - actress * Anita Tsoy - singer * Natalia Vdovina - actress


2022

* Vladislav Vetrov - actor * Elena Sanayeva - actress * Alexander Kniazev - cellist, organist * Vadim Repin - violinist * Diana Gurtskaya - singer * Stas Mikhaylov - singer * Grigory Leps - singer


See also

*Awards and decorations of the Russian Federation *Ministerial Awards of the Russian Federation *List of awards of independent services of the Russian Federation


References

{{Russian Awards People's Artists of Russia, Honorary titles of Russia People's Artists, Russia