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People's Artist of the Russian Federation (, ''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
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, 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 involve the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. P ...
, whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts (theatre, music, dance, circus, cinema, etc.). It succeeded both the all-Soviet Union "
People's Artist of the USSR People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union. The term is confusingly used to translate two Russian language titles: Народный арти ...
" award (Народный артист СССР), and more directly the local republic's "
People's Artist of the RSFSR People's Artist of the RSFSR (, ''Narodnyj artist RSFSR'') was an honorary title granted to Soviet Union artists, including theatre and film directors, actors, choreographers, music performers, and orchestra conductors, who had outstanding achiev ...
" award (Народный артист РСФСР), after the
dissolution of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No. 142-N of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Declaration No. 142-Н of ...
. 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 (, ''Zasluzhenny artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii''), also known as Honored Artist of Russia, is an honorary title in the Russian Federation. The title is awarded to actors, directors, filmmakers, writers, d ...
(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 (; 1 May 1950 – 13 February 2019) was a Russian singer who had a rare lyrical baritone. Biography Zakharov was born on 1 May 1950 in Mykolaiv in the Ukrainian SSR (then part of the Soviet Union, now Ukraine) in a mi ...
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 (; 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 of the leading names in the Russian theatre world. ...
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 Telegraph' ...
File:Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky in Vitebsk.jpg, Operatic singer
Dmitri Hvorostovsky Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky (, ; 16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017) was a Russian operatic baritone. Early life and education Hvorostovsky was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia during a time when the city was mostly closed to foreigner ...
File:Valery Leontiev at Laima Rendez Vous Jurmala 2017 (2).jpg, Singer
Valery Leontiev Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev (; born 19 March 1949) is a Soviet and Russian pop singer, sometimes songwriter and actor, whose popularity peaked in the 1980s and 1990s. He was titled a People's Artist of Russia in 1996.Valery Gergiev Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (, ; ; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conducting, conductor and opera company director. He is currently general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre and of the Bolshoi Theatre and artistic director o ...
File:Yuri Antonov (musician) (2015-12-10) 04.jpg, Composer and singer
Yuri Antonov Yuri Mikhailovich Antonov (; born 19 February 1945) is a Soviet and Russian composer, singer and musician, People's Artist of Russia (1997).Andrey Makarevich Andrey Vadimovich Makarevich (; born 11 December 1953) is an Israeli and Soviet-Russian rock musician and the founder of Russia's oldest still active rock band Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine). Personal life Makarevich was born in Moscow to m ...
File:Artemev eduard 1.jpg, Composer
Eduard Artemyev Eduard Nikolayevich Artemyev (; rus, Эдуа́рд Никола́евич Арте́мьев, p=ɨdʊˈart ɐrˈtʲemʲjɪf; 30 November 1937 – 29 December 2022) was a Soviet and Russian composer of electronic music and film scores. Outside ...
File:David Toukhmanov.jpg, Composer
David Tukhmanov David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov PAR (, was born July 20, 1940) is a Soviet and Russian composer. People's Artist of Russia (2000), State Prize of Russian Federation (2003, 2019). Biography Tukhmanov is a son of an Armenian engineer Fyodor David ...
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Alexander Rosenbaum Alexander Yakovlevich Rosenbaum People's Artist of Russia, PAR (, ''Aleksandr Jakovlevič Rozenbaum'') (born September 13, 1951) is a Russian Bard (Soviet Union), bard from Saint Petersburg. Among his most famous songs are the ones about Saint ...
File:Alexander Zatsepin M2017-05.jpg, Composer
Aleksandr Zatsepin Aleksandr Sergeyevich Zatsepin (; born 10 March 1926) is a Soviet and Russian composer, known for his soundtracks to movies, notably comedies directed by Leonid Gaidai. People's Artist of Russia (2003) and Hero of Labour of the Russian Federat ...
File:Alexander Sokurov in Fajr International Film Festival 01.jpg, Filmmaker
Alexander Sokurov Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov, PAR (; born 14 June 1951) is a Russian filmmaker. His most significant works include a feature film, ''Russian Ark'' (2002), filmed in a single unedited shot, and ''Faust'' (2011), which was honoured with the G ...
File:Philipp Kirkorov in Vitebsk.jpg, Singer
Philipp Kirkorov Philipp Bedros Kirkorov (, ; ; born 30 April 1967) is a Bulgarian-born Russian pop singer. Kirkorov's career began in 1985 with participation in the Soviet musical TV show "Wider Circle". Since 2000, he has maintained public interest in his pe ...
File:Svetlana Zakharova in Moscow 06-2015.jpg, Ballet dancer Svetlana Zakharova File:Sergei Bezrukov 2008.jpg, Actor
Sergey Bezrukov Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov (; 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 the Russian Federation. He currently works at Tabakov Studio (the theatre of ...
File:Anna Netrebko - Romy 2013 a.jpg, Operatic singer
Anna Netrebko Anna Yuryevna Netrebko (; born 18 September 1971) is a Russian and Austrian operatic soprano who has performed at the Salzburg Festival, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera and La Scala. Netrebko is one of the few Russian p ...
File:Nikolay Baskov.jpg, Singer
Nikolay Baskov Nikolay Victorovich Baskov ( rus, Николай Викторович Басков, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪdʑ ˈbaskəf, - bɐsˈkof; born 15 October 1976) is a Russian tenor who performs in both operatic and popular-music styl ...
File:Matsuev.JPG, Classical pianist
Denis Matsuev Denis Leonidovich Matsuev (/ma'tsujef/; ; born June 11, 1975) is a Russian pianist. Primarily a classical pianist, he also performs jazz occasionally. Biography Born in Irkutsk, Soviet Union, Matsuev is the only child of two musicians, his moth ...
File:Mikhail Zhvanetsky Odessa International Film Festival 1.jpg, Writer, satirist
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File:Константин Хабенский.jpg, Actor
Konstantin Khabensky Konstantin Yurievich Khabensky, People's Artist of Russia, PAR (; born 11 January 1972) is a Russian actor of stage and film, director and philanthropist. From 1997 he was part of the Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre cast until 2000, after whi ...
File:Чулпан Хаматова.jpg, Actress
Chulpan Khamatova Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova (; ; , born 1 October 1975) is a Russian actress. Biography Early life and theater career Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova was born on 1 October 1975 in Kazan, Tatar ASSR, in what was then the Soviet Union. Her parents Mar ...
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 Servi ...
File:Ksenia Rappoport.jpg, Actress
Kseniya Rappoport Kseniya Aleksandrovna Rappoport (; born 25 March 1974) is a Russian actress. She graduated in 2000 from Saint Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Arts and was immediately invited to join the Maly Drama Theatre. She played Nina Zarechnaya in ''The ...
File:Lev Leschenko (cropped).jpg, Singer Lev Leshchenko File:Reznik Ilia.jpg, Poet
Ilya Reznik Ilya Rahmielevich Reznik (; born April 4, 1938) is a Russian poet and songwriter, People's Artist of Russia (2003). Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Born in Leningrad, he is the lyricist of popular pop songs to the music of Genn ...


People's Artist of the Russian Federation (list)


1990s


1992

February 21, 1992 * Ivan Krasko (b.1930)— actor April 6, 1992 * Boris Diev (1924–2008) — composer May 8, 1992 *
Lyudmila Fedotova Lyudmila Fedotova (born 23 April 1986) is a female skier from Kazakhstan. She competed in the alpine skiing events in the 2010 Winter Olympics. She also competed in the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009. Fedotova competed in the w ...
(1939–2004), actress and singer * Vladimir Bylkov (1938–2004) — theater director June 10,1992 * Gennady Frolov (1937–2019) — actor * Tamara Krasnyuk-Yablokova (1939–2008) — actress *
Tatyana Samoylova Tatiana Yevgenyevna Samoilova (; 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 received a number of awards for the film, including a special mention at the C ...
(1934–2014) – actress June 23, 1992 *
Tamara Nosova Tamara Makarovna Nosova (; 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 1948 and 1999. She was married to writer Vita ...
(1927–2007) — actress * Harry Grodberg (1929–2016) — organist * Yaroslav Baryshev (1942–2013) — actor June 24,1992 *
Pavel Rudakov Pavel Vasilyevich Rudakov (15 July 1915 – 16 January 1993) was a Soviet musician (concertina player) and film actor, the member of the estrada duet of Rudakov & Nechayev, which was popular in the 1950s. He was the Merited Artist of the Russi ...
(1915–1993), concertina player *
Gelena Velikanova Gelena Martselievna Velikanova (, 27 February 1923 – 10 November 1998) was a Soviet traditional pop performer, who popular in the 1950s and 1960s and best remembered for her 1959 hit "Landyshi" (Lily of the Valley). She was honoured with the Pe ...
(1923–2008) — singer June 25,1992 *
Izabella Yurieva Izabella Yurieva () is the stage name of Izabella Danilovna Livikova (; 7 September 1899 – 20 January 2000), a Russian singer nicknamed the "Queen of the Russian Romance" who celebrated her centennial at a tribute concert given in her honor at t ...
(1899–2000) — singer * Tatyana Vasilyeva (b.1947) — actress August 25,1992 *
Vera Alentova Vera Valentinovna Alentova (; born 21 February 1942) is a Soviet and Russian actress famous for her leading role in ''Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears''. Biography Vera Alentova was born on 21 February 1942 in the town of Kotlas in the Arkhangels ...
(b.1942) — actress August 26,1992 *
Vadim Abdrashitov Vadim Yusupovich Abdrashitov (, ; 19 January 1945 – 12 February 2023) was a Russian film director. He was internationally renowned as one of Russian cinema's most notable independent director (film), directors, with awards from the Berlin Inte ...
(1945–2023) — film director * Anatoly Solodilin (1937—2006) — theater actor August 27,1992 * Svetlana Bragarnik (1944–2023) — theater & films actress August 31,1992 * Fasil Akhmetov (1935–1998) — Tatar composer * Vyacheslav Mochalov (1938–2010) — choirmaster September 21,1992 * Irina Nekrasova (b.1938) — Gypsy actress September 28,1992 *
Yuri Lyubimov Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov (; 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 of the leading names in the Russian theatre world. ...
(1917–2014) — actor October 13,1992 * Viktor Smirnov (1945–2017) — actor * Albina Zotova (b.1939) — circus performer, equestrian, illusionist November 20,1992 * Gennady Bortnikov (1939–2007) — actor * Margarita Kypriyanova (1924–2005) — theater actress * Liya Radina (1921–2000) — theater actress * Vladimir Chermyaninov(1929–2009) — theater actress December 8,1992 * Raisa Ibragimova (1951–2012) — tamer * Grant Ibragimov (b.1951) — tamer * Rustam Kaseev (1929–1997) — tamer * Nikolay Pavlenko (b.1943) — tamer * Vladimir Petrunin (b.1948) — ballet dancer *
Konstantin Raikin Konstantin Arkadyevich Raikin (; July 8, 1950) is a Russian actor and theatre director, the head of the Moscow Satyricon Theatre (since 1988). Konstantin Raikin has been honoured with the titles Meritorious Artist of Russia (1985) and the Peo ...
(b.1950) — actor December 31,1992 * Zhanna Polovtseva — soloist of the choir *
Pavel Lebeshev Pavel Timofeevich Lebeshev (; 15 February 1940, in Moscow – 23 February 2003, in Moscow« ...
(1940–2003) —cinematographer * Aleksandr Knyazhevskiy (1936–1996) — cinematographer * Nikolay Ivanov (1943–2020) – actor


1993

January 15,1993 * Vadim Zhukov (1934–2021) — director of the puppet theater * Aleksandr Lomonosov (b.1939) — opera singer February 2,1993 * Orzeta Bekuzarova (1934–2007) — Ossetian theater actress *
Yuri Gorobets Yuri Vasilievich Gorobets (; 15 March 1932 – 27 June 2022) was a Soviet and Russian theater and cinema actor. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1993). Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1984). He was awarded Order of Friendshi ...
(1932–2022) — actor February 20,1993 * Leonarda Brushtain (1935–1999) — violinist March 2,1993 *
Mikhail Kopelman Mikhail Kopelman is a Russian-American violinist. He was born in 1947 in Uzhhorod and studied at the Moscow Conservatory with professors Maya Glezarova and Yuri Yankelevich. In 1973, he was awarded 2nd prize in the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Compet ...
(b.1947) — violinist March 18,1993 * Lyalya Bobrova (1939–2021) — Gypsy actress April 23,1993 * Gennady Piskunov (1939–2020) — opera singer *
Olga Volkova Olga Volkova may refer to: * Olha Volkova (born 1986), Ukrainian freestyle skier * Olga Volkova (actress) (born 1939), Russian actress {{Hndis, Volkova, Olga ...
(b.1939) — actress May 7,1993 * Tahir Mateulin (1935–2005) — actor May 13,1993 *
Pyotr Fomenko Pyotr Naumovich Fomenko (; 13 July 1932 – 9 August 2012) was a Soviet and Russian film and theatre director, teacher, artistic director of the Moscow theater Pyotr Fomenko Workshop. Created 60 productions in theatres in Moscow, Saint Petersbu ...
(1932–2012) — director *
Yevgeny Steblov Yevgeny Yurievich Steblov (; born December 8, 1945) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, honored as a People's Artist of Russia in 1993. He serves as First Deputy Chairman of the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation. Bi ...
(b.1945) — actor * Emilia Tsallagova (b.1947) — opera singer (soprano) * Leonid Heifets (1934–2022) — theater director * Leonid Psenichnyi (b.1944) — soloist of the song and dance ensemble * Anatoly Lubimov (b.1941) — oboist * Ludmila Kravtsova (1947–2010) — theater actress * Valentina Zavorotnyk (b.1943) — theater actress May 22,1993 * Irina Zhurina (b.1946) – opera singer *
Boris Khimichev Boris Petrovich Khimichev (; 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 between 1964 and 1982. After his divorce from Tat ...
(1933–2014) – actor June 1,1993 * Valentina Tokarskaya (1906–1996) — actress June 16,1993 *
Ivan Stepanov Ivan Stepanov (1887–1953) was a Soviet art director.Barsacq p.251 Selected filmography * '' The Stationmaster'' (1925) * '' The Nightingale'' (1936) * ''The Childhood of Maxim Gorky ''The Childhood of Maxim Gorky'' (, "Gorky's childhood") is a ...
(b.1945) — opera singer * Semyon Okoshnikov (1944–2019) — opera singer Jule 3,1993 * Georgy Garanian (1934–2010) — musician Jule 14,1993 * Pavel Slobodkin (1945–2017) — composer Jule 27,1993 * Viktor Ivanov (b.1941) — military conductor, colonel * Mirian Dgangisherashvili (1943–2018) — theater director August 20,1993 * Vladimir Kydryashov (1939–2006) — opera singer * Vladimir Tonha (b.1941) — violinist October 26,1993 * Raisa Dement (b.1941) — Gypsy actress *
Lev Dodin Lev Abramovich Dodin (, 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 theatrical production as a child at the The ...
(b.1944) — theatre director October 28,1993 * Mikhail Matveev (1937–2000) — actor * Yuri Evtushenko (b.1943) — guslar November 23,1993 * Ruzhena Sikora (1916–2006) — singer November 30,1993 * Iosif Mataev (1940–2018) — choreographer * Vasiliy Shtefutsa (b.1936) — singer December 16,1993 * Andrey Abramenkov (1935–2023) — fiddler * Sergei Solovyov (1944–2021) — director * Gugren Tonunst (1922–1997) — actor *
Olga Ostroumova Olga Mikhailovna Ostroumova (; born 21 September 1947) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. Best known for her roles in films '' We'll Live Till Monday'' (1968, her debut), '' The Dawns Here Are Quiet'' (1972, Italian ''Silver Nymph'' ...
(b.1947) — actress December 18,1993 * Gleb Lapiado (1926–2007) — jockey * Galina Petrinskaya (1935–2000) — aerialist December 20,1993 * Evgeny Knyazev (b.1942) — theater actor *
Valentina Morozova Valentina Galaktionovna Morozova (March 13, 1910December 28, 1989) was a Soviet geologist and paleontologist. Morozova's most recognizable works in her field revolve around her stratigraphical research on the sediments from the Paleozoic, Cretaceou ...
(b.1953) — ballet dancer *
Leonid Nikolaev Leonid Vasilevich Nikolaev (10 May 1904 – 29 December 1934) was the Russian assassin of Sergei Kirov, the First Secretary of Leningrad City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Early life Nikolaev was a troubled young So ...
(1940–2009) — conductor * Tatyana Sterling (b.1942) — opera singer * Vitaliy Tihonov (b.1938) — acrobat * Tatyana Bochtaryova (b.1953) — soloist of the Cossack choir


1994

January 6, 1994 * Pavel Ovsyannikov (b.1951) —military conductor * Oleg Baglukov (b.1940) — theater actor * Vladimir Knestikov (1950–1999) — theater actor * Aleksander Sklyarov (1949–2023) — accordion player January 11, 1994 * Andrey Kozhevnikov (1933–2011) — conductor * Igor Voronov (b.1953) — soloist of the male vocal quartet * Valeriy Volhovskiy (1938–2003) — director of the puppet theater * Yulia Abakumovskaya (b.1942) — opera singer *
Semyon Aranovich Semyon Davidovich Aranovich (Russian: Семён Дави́дович Арано́вич, 23 July 1934, Derazhnya, Ukraine, Soviet Union – 8 September 1996, Hamburg, Germany) was a Soviet and Russian film director. Life and career Aranov ...
(1934–1996) — director of photography * Aleksey German (1938–2013) —director of photography * Ernst Romanov (1936–2024) — actor February 9, 1994 * Valentin Feigin (1934–1995) — cellist * Vladimir Matveev (1939–2017) — actor * Boris Kiselyov (1943–2016) —theater actor * Valentina Iltsaranova (1939–2010) — Kalmyk singer * Georgy Butuhanov (b.1932) — theater actor February 12, 1994 * Valeriy Ivchenko (1939–2024) — actor *
Nina Usatova Nina Nikolayevna Usatova (; born October 1, 1951, in Altai Krai) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress. People's Artist of Russia (1994).
(b.1951) — actress * Temur Chkheidze (1943–2022) — theater director March 1, 1994 * Nikolai Yeremenko Jr. (1949–2001) — actor * Andrey Martynov (b.1945) — actor *
Valery Nosik Valery Benediktovich Nosik (; 9 October 1940 — 4 January 1995) was a Soviet Russian film and stage actor, the People's Artist of Russia (1994) who appeared in more than 100 films, as well as in numerous stage productions at the Moscow Pushkin ...
(1940–1995) — actor * Irina Muravyova (b.1949) — actress March 14, 1994 * Eduard Bernadskiy (1942–2014) — circus performer * Aleksandr Popov (b.1940) — circus performer * Maria Bulova (b.1956) — ballet dancer * Tatyana Erastova (b.1947) — opera singer March 21, 1994 * Eduard Markin (b.1941) — choirmaster April 11, 1994 * Mikhail Sales (b.1946) — theater director & actor * Yuriy Novohizhin (b.1942) — Theater actor * Ivan Permyakov (b.1944) — soloist of the folk choir * Vera Chaika (b.1947) — opera singer * Albert Tarakanov (b.1938) — pianist * Nikolay Kuchev (1927–2002) — actor * Elena Mishina (b.1941) — actress of the puppet theater * Vladimir Lubyshkin (b.1946) — soloist of the folk choir *
Gennadi Yukhtin Gennadi (birth name Geniy) Gavrilovich Yukhtin (; 30 March 1932 – 18 February 2022) was a Russian film and stage actor. Life and career At the age of fourteen, Yukhtin was orphaned: his mother died at the front during the Second World War i ...
(1932–2022) — actor *
Georgy Natanson Georgy Grigorievich Nathanson (; 23 May 1921 – 17 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian theater and cinema director, screenwriter and playwright. Worked as director at Mosfilm. People's Artist of Russia (1994), winner of the USSR State Prize ( ...
(1921–2017) — director * Yevgeni Gerasimov (b.1951) — actor * Pavel Kogan (b.1952) — conductor May 6, 1994 *
Anatoly Sobolev Anatoly ( , ) is a common Russian and Ukrainian masculine given name, derived from the Greek name ''Anatolios'' (), meaning "sunrise." Saint Anatolius of Constantinople was a fifth-century saint who became the first patriarch of Constantinople ...
(1939–2012) — conductor May 26, 1994 * Raisa Goncharova (b.1954) — soloist of Cossaks choir * Anatoly Lizvinskiy (1947–2008) — soloist of Cossaks choir *
Boris Shcherbakov Boris Vasilevich Shcherbakov (; born 11 December 1949) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. People's Artist of Russian Federation (1994). Winner of USSR State Prize (1985). Biography Boris Shcherbakov was born in Vasilyevsky Island ...
(b.1949) — actor June 3, 1994 * (1941–2009) — theater director * Alexander Galkovsky (1945–2016) — violist * Aleksander Korchagin (1945–2022) — violist * Sergey Pishugin (b.1941) — violist * Andrey Shishlov (1945–2016) — violist June 28, 1994 * Olga Antonova (b.1937) July 6, 1994 * Igor Gavrish (b.1945) — violist * Natalia Gerasimova (b.1950) — soloist of choir *
Leonid Nevedomsky Leonid Vitalievich Nevedomsky (; 13 October 1939 – 3 June 2018) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He appeared in more than 60 films and television shows between 1966 and 2007. Biography Leonid Nevedomsky was born on 13 October 1939 in Vit ...
(1939–2018) — actor * Anatoly Pustokhin (b.1938) — actor * Lidiya Yatsunuch (b.1950) — opera singer *
Natalya Tenyakova Natalya Maksimovna Tenyakova (; 3 July 1944 – 18 June 2025) was a Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1994), Laureate of the Golden Mask Award (1995), and the Stanislavsky Prize (2005). ...
(b.1944) — actress * Sergey Baikov — opera singer * Aleksander Vetrov (b.1961) — ballet dancer * Alla Vasilyeva (1933–2018) — violist August 29, 1994 *
Albert Filozov Albert Leonidovich Filozov (; 25 June 1937 – 11 April 2016) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was a People's Artist of Russia.
(1937–2016) — actor * Boris Novikov (1925–1997) — actor * Mikhail Ivanov (1929–1995) — circus performer * Oleksandr Bondurianskyi (b.1945) — pianist * Vladimir Ivanov (b.1948) — violist *
Mikhail Utkin Michael is a common masculine given name derived from the Hebrew phrase ''mī kāʼēl'', 'Who slike-El', in Aramaic: ܡܝܟܐܝܠ (''Mīkhāʼēl'' ). The theophoric name is often read as a rhetorical question – "Who slike he Hebrew Go ...
(b.1952) — violist *
Aleksei Zharkov Aleksei Dmitrievich Zharkov (; 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 Zharkov was born on March 27, 1948, in Moscow. In 1960, the d ...
(1948–2016) — actor September 12, 1994 * Kapitolina Lazarenko (1925–2007) December 1, 1994 *
Valentina Baranova Valentina may refer to: People * Valentina (given name), a female given name (includes a list of people with the name) * Valentina (wrestler), stage name of Elizabeth Miklosi (born 1983), an American professional wrestler * Valentina (Italian ...
(b.1951) — opera singer * Iya Bobrakova (1927–2012) — theater actress * Vladislav Verestnikov (b.1947) — opera singer *
Vadim Derbenyov Vadim (Cyrillic: Вадим) is a Slavic masculine given name derived from the Ruthenian word ''vaditi'' (), meaning ''to blame'' or as a diminutive of Vadimir.Tatyana Klanidchkina (b.1956) — ballet dancer * Faina Kostina (b.1939) — actress of puppets theater * Ivan Krivoruchko (b.1940) — actor * Yevgeny Krylatov (1934–2019) — composer * Aleksander Kuimov (1958–2021) — ballet dancer * Asiyat Kumratova (b.1940) — soloist of choir * Nadezhda Kuular (b.1947) — singer * Friedrich Lips (b.1948) — accordionist *
Rimma Markova Rimma Vasilievna Markova (; 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 named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1985. During her ...
(1925–2015) — actress * Emilia Moskvitina (b.1939) —harpist * Viktor Pliner (1915–1999) — circus performer * Igor Shibanov (1944–2019) — actor * Stepan Denisov (b.1941) — tiger and bear trainer * Elvina Podchernikova-Elvorti (1928–2014) — circus performer December 29, 1994 *
Liya Akhedzhakova Liya Mejidovna Akhedzhakova (; 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 Nika Awards as the best supporting actress and the 2014 Nika Honor ...
(b.1938) — actress * Yevgeny Bilyauar (b.1947) — circus performer * Anatoly Vasilyev (b.1946) — actor * Adam Visitaev (b.1948) — circus performer *
Edison Denisov Edison Vasilievich Denisov (, 6 April 1929 – 24 November 1996) was a Russian composer in the so-called " Underground", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division of Soviet music. Biography Denisov was born in Tomsk, Siberia. He studied math ...
(1929–1996) — composer * Yuriy Loevskiy (b.1939) — violist *
Viktor Pavlov Viktor Pavlovich Pavlov (; 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 - Sovremennik Theatre, Yermolova Theatre (1965–1969), Mayakovs ...
(1940–2006) — actor *
Lyubov Polishchuk Lyubov Grigoryevna Polishchuk (; 21 May 1949 – 28 November 2006) was a popular Russian actress. She was born in the Siberian city of Omsk. After school she decided to become an actress and moved to Moscow. She made her debut in cinema in 197 ...
(1949–2006) — actress *
Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov Aleksandr Shalvovich Porokhovshchikov (, 31 January 1939, Moscow – 15 April 2012, Moscow) was a Russian film and theatre actor and film director, People's Artist of Russia (1994). He died of diabetes and other illness at age 73 in Russia. S ...
(1939–2012) — actor, director * Mikhail Rozhkov (1918–2018) — balalaika player * Aleksey Sarach (b.1943) — circus performer


1995

January 27,1995 * Yuri Avsharov (1937–2010) — actor * Boris Arzhanov (1942–2021) — actor * Zinire Atnabaeva (1934–2013) — theater actress * Irina Bochkova (1938–2020) — violist * Vladimir Bychkov (1928–2024) — ballet dancer * Boris Vetrov (b.1943) — Theater actress * Vladimir Vlasenko (b.1932) — singer and bassoonist * Rustem Gabdullin (b.1944) — contrabass player * Pyotr Karpov (1947–2020) — the operetta artist * Vyacheslav Kruglov (b.1945) — performer on domra and mandolin *
Roman Ledenev Roman Semenovich Ledenev (December 4, 1930 - August 15, 2019) was a Soviet and Russian composer and music teacher, professor at the Moscow Conservatory The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory () is a hig ...
(1930–2019) — composer * Galina Midzyaeva (b.1941) — theater actress * Natalya Pankova (b.1951) — pianist *
Vladimir Rubin Vladimir Ilich Rubin (; 5 August 1924 – 27 October 2019) was a Soviet and Russian composer. He was born in Moscow, and was a People's Artist of Russia (1995). Works * Opera – ''Three Fat Men''Soviet music – Page 122 Liudmila Viktorovna Polia ...
(1924–2019) — composer * Nikolay Simachev (1927–1996) — ballet dancer * Leonid Solovyov (1940–2010) — theater actor * Larisa Cycheva (b.1954) — ballet dancer * Nina Terentieva (b.1946) — opera singer * Ekaterina Shavrina (b.1942) — folk-singer * Anatoly Bazhalkin (b.1949) — Lieutenant Colonel March 17,1995 *
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 Telegraph' ...
(b.1963) —ballet dancer * Grigoriy Getsov (1918–2000) — theater actor * Galina Zaitseva (b.1947) — opera singer * Aleksandr Mezentsev (1951–2005) — actor * Nikolai Prokopovich (1925–2005) — actor * Nina Sharova-Zaspanova (1918–2006) — actress * Mikhail Yanko (b.1950) — actor April 25,1995 * Vladimir Verbitsky (b.1943) — conductor * Rimma Volkova (1940–2021) — opera singer * Mikhail Elbonov (1945–2023) — Buryat actor * Gennady Zavolikin (1948–2001) — accordionist * Vladislav Novik (b.1951) — choirmeister * Aleksandr Proshkin (b.1940) — director * Tatyana Shestakova (b.1948) — ballet dancer May 11,1995 *Gennady Rozhdestvov (1934–2005) — ballet dancer May 30,1995 *Rubina Kalantaryan (1925–2024) — opera singer *
Elena Kamburova Elena Antonovna Kamburova (; born July 11, 1940) is a Russian singer and actress. In addition to numerous solo albums, her voice is recorded in more than a hundred film soundtracks. She is a People's Artist of Russian Federation. Born in Stalin ...
(b.1940) — singer *Vyacheslav Pomelnikov (b.1947) — accordion player *Nikolay Peregudov (1930–2009) —concertmaster August 4,1995 *Vladimir Barlyaev (1947–2008) — theater and dubbing actor, singer * Vasiliy Bochkaryov (b.1942) — actor *Pyotr Vorobyov (b.1942) — theater actor *
Ivan Mozgovenko Ivan Panteleyevich Mozgovenko (; 13 February 1924 – 31 December 2021) was a Soviet and Russian clarinetist and music teacher. He taught clarinet as a professor at the Gnessin State Musical College. For his participation as a soldier in World W ...
(1924–2021) — clarinetist * Nikolay Mozgovenko (b.1947) — clarinetist * Yuriy Osherov (1942–2019) — актёр *Nikolay Shishkov (b.1946) — actor August 5,1995 *Venera Ganeeva (b.1955) — opera singer (
coloratura soprano A coloratura soprano () is a type of operatic soprano voice that specializes in music that is distinguished by agile run (music), runs, leaps and Trill (music), trills. The term ''coloratura'' refers to the elaborate ornamentation of a melody, whi ...
) *Georgy Ivanov (1927–2010) — composer *Ivetta Kiselyova (1927–2006) — actress *Zelimhan Kozaev (b.1951) — the head of the dance ensemble *Lev Lyubetskiy (1920–2000) — actor *Nikolay Makeev (1920–1998) — actor *Liliya Sabitova (b.1953) — ballet dancer *Zilya Singatullina (b.1949) — opera singer ( lyrico-coloratura soprano) *Boris Tevlin (1931–2012) — choral conductor *
Dmitri Hvorostovsky Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky (, ; 16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017) was a Russian operatic baritone. Early life and education Hvorostovsky was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia during a time when the city was mostly closed to foreigner ...
(1962–2017) — opera singer, (
baritone A baritone is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the bass (voice type), bass and the tenor voice type, voice-types. It is the most common male voice. The term originates from the ...
) August 11,1995 *
Yevgeny Akulov Yevgeny Akulov, first name often spelled Yevgeni or Evgeni, () was a Soviet conductor. He was noted for his conducting of the opera '' The Golden Cockerel'' with Aleksei Kovalev in 1962 and his conducting for the Moscow Radio Large Symphony Orc ...
(1905–1996) — conductor August 17,1995 * Vladimir Nesterov (b.1931) — soloist of the song and dance ensemble of the Northern Fleet October 19,1995 * Oleg Boshnyakovich (1920–2006) — pianist * Yevgeniya Glushenko (b.1952) — actress * Mairbek Ikaev (1927–2004) — theater actress * Igor Kostolevsky (born 1948) — actor * Alina Kuznetsova (1938–2024) — theater actress *
Savva Kulish Savva Yakovlevich Kulish (; 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 (film), Takeoff'' won the Silver Prize at the 11th Moscow Interna ...
(1936–2001) — director * Vyacheslav Semyonov (b. 1946) — accordionist * Evgeny Tashkov (1926–2012) — film director, screenwriter and actor * Lyubov Timofeeva (b.1951) — pianist * Boris Figotin (1923–1998) — composer November 27,1995 *Yuriy Bure-Nebelsen (b. 1938) — theater director *Rafael Klainer (1939–2024) — artist-reader, theater director *Antonina Kuznetsova (b. 1941) — theater actress *Irena Tarasova (b. 1938) — actress *Lyubov Kuzmicheva (1937–2014) — soloist of choir, singer *Aleftina Lapteva — singer, soloist of choir *Galina Rozhdestvenskaya (1925–2001) — conductor, choirmeister December 28,1995 *Anatoly Aleksandrovich (1922–2016) — singer *Galina Bibicheva (b. 1948) — opera singer (
mezzo-soprano A mezzo-soprano (, ), or mezzo ( ), is a type of classical music, classical female singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A bel ...
) *Vladimir Burulev (1945–2015) — opera singer (
baritone A baritone is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the bass (voice type), bass and the tenor voice type, voice-types. It is the most common male voice. The term originates from the ...
) *Vladimir Vasilyov (1931–2017) — choreographer, ballet director *Nabi Ibragimov (1935–2022) — film & theater actor * Lev Kuznetsov (1944–2008) — opera singer (
tenor A tenor is a type of male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. Composers typically write music for this voice in the range from the second B below m ...
) *Lima Kustabaeva (b. 1945) — artistic director of the State Song and Dance Ensemble of the
Republic of Tatarstan Tatarstan, officially the Republic of Tatarstan, sometimes also called Tataria, is a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is a part of the Volga Federal District; and its capital city, capital and largest city i ...
. *
Avangard Leontiev Avangard Nikolaevich Leontiev (; born February 27, 1947, in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, teacher, professor. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1995). Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995) ...
(b. 1947) — theater & film actor *Grigory Pinyasov (b. 1948) — singer *
Yevgeniya Simonova Yevgeniya Pavlovna Simonova (, 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), ''Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky'' (1981). In 1 ...
(b. 1955) — actress * Leonid Filatov (1946–2003) — theater and film actor, film director, poet, playwright *
Gennady Pasko Gennady (also Gennadii) Ivanovich Pasko (born 26 October 1940, Sukhumi) is a Russian impressionist painter. Education Pasko finished Batumi art school in 1959. He graduated from the faculty of applied art (decorative arts) of the Moscow Textile I ...
– painter


1996

January 29,1996 * Dolores-Luiza Belaonova (1937_2009) — opera singer ( lyric-dramatic soprano) *
Vyacheslav Dobrynin Vyacheslav Grigoryevich Dobrynin (, born Antonov (); 25 January 1946 – 1 October 2024) was a popular Russian composer and singer also known as ''Doctor Shlyager''. He was awarded the People's Artist of Russia in 1996.
(b. 1946) — composer & singer * Lyudmila Korshunova (b. 1950) — theater actress *
Igor Krutoy Igor Yakovlevich Krutoy () or Ihor Yakovych Krutyi born on July 29, 1954), is a Ukrainian-Russian music composer, performer, producer and musical promoter. Krutoy was awarded the title "Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation", People's Art ...
(b. 1954) — composer * Avangard Fedotov (1925–2015) — clarinetist *
Valery Fokin Valery Vladimirovich Fokin (; 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 Saint Petersburg, and the President of The Meyerhold Centr ...
(b. 1946) — theatrical and film director * Tamara Chernyshova (1922–2007) — theatrical actress *
Isaac Schwartz Isaac Iosifovich Schwartz (; 13 May 1923 – 27 December 2009), also known as Isaak Shvarts, was a Soviet composer. Schwartz was born in Romny in the Ukrainian SSR in 1923. His family moved to Leningrad in 1930, where he learned to play the piano ...
(1923–2009) — composer February 21,1996 * Alexander Burdonsky (1941–2017) — theater director * Sergey Nazarko (b. 1951) — conductor of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Moscow Air Defense District, lieutenant-colonel * Pavel Mikhailov (b. 1943) — singer March 9,1996 *Vladimir Boikov (1935–2009) — conductor *Yuriy Drozhnyak (b. 1943) — theater actor * Sergey Zakharov (1950–2019) — singer *Vladimir Kelin (1936–2013) — opera singer (
tenor A tenor is a type of male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. Composers typically write music for this voice in the range from the second B below m ...
) *Valeriy Kovtun (1942–2017) — accordionist *Aleksey Levitskiy (1931–2008) — opera singer (
bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...
) *
Valery Leontiev Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev (; born 19 March 1949) is a Soviet and Russian pop singer, sometimes songwriter and actor, whose popularity peaked in the 1980s and 1990s. He was titled a People's Artist of Russia in 1996.Anatoly Adoskin Anatoly Mikhailovich Adoskin (; 23 November 1927 – 20 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian actor of theater and cinema. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1996). Biography Anatoly Adoskin graduated from the studio at the Mossovet Th ...
(1927–2019), actor *Nina Vasilyeva (b. 1945), actress of the operetta theater *Konstantin Vasilyev (1933–2020), clown and acrobat *Anatoly Vekshin (1930–2016), clown *Galina Dyomina (1925–2005) — actress *Elena Zimenkova (b. 1944) — singer *Leonid Zimnenko (1943–2021), opera singer *Hodache Molodtsova (b. 1949), folk-singer *
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), ...
(b. 1949), conductor May 2,1996 * Konstantin Biragov (1936–1999), actor * Vyacheslav Vershinin (b. 1942), theatrical actor * Maidari Zhaphandaev (1946–2008), actor *
Natalya Seleznyova Natalya Igorevna Seleznyova (; born 19 June 1945) is a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. Biography She first took the stage at the age of six, participating in the Russian Army Theatre, Red Army Theatre plays. Her notabl ...
(b.1945), actress * Aleksander Usov (1937–1998), theatrical actor * Mikhail Philippov (b.1947), actor * Marta Tsifrinovich (1924–2009), puppeteer June 7,1996 *Aleksander Azarin (1919–2004), master of artistic reading * Svetlana Bezrodnaya (b. 1934), violinist * Nadezhda Gracheva (b. 1969), ballet dancer *
Galina Stepanenko Galina Olegovna Stepanenko (; born 12 June 1966) is a Russian ballet teacher. She is a former ''prima ballerina'' of the Bolshoi Ballet, and since 2013 has been head of the Bolshoi's ballet troupe. Biography Born in Moscow on 12 June 1966, Step ...
(b. 1966), ballet dancer *
Naum Shtarkman Naum Lvovich Shtarkman (28 September 192719 July 2006) was a Soviet and Russian classical pianist. Career Born in Zhytomyr, Shtarkman was a student of Konstantin Igumnov at the Moscow Conservatory. Shtarkman was awarded a 5th prize at the V ...
(1927–2006), pianist * Vladimir Yakovlev (1930–2008), actor June 13,1996 *Ninel Konstantinova (1926–2010), theatrical actress *Natalya Novakova (b. 1947), theater actress *Olga Ovchinikova (b. 1950), theater actress *Vladislav Agafonnikov (b. 1936), composer *Georgy Demurov (1940–2023), theater actor *Lidiya Anikeeva (1950–2024), actress *
Mikhail Svetin Mikhail Semyonovich Svetin (; 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.JPG, Makeup room at the Comedy Theatre The Haro ...
(1929–2015), actor *Evgeniya Pchyolkina (1928–1997), theater actress *Leonard Varfolomeev (1936–2010), actor June 20,1996 *
Valery Gergiev Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (, ; ; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conducting, conductor and opera company director. He is currently general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre and of the Bolshoi Theatre and artistic director o ...
(b.1953), conductor August 30,1996 * Nikolai Burlyayev – actor *
Vyacheslav Dobrynin Vyacheslav Grigoryevich Dobrynin (, born Antonov (); 25 January 1946 – 1 October 2024) was a popular Russian composer and singer also known as ''Doctor Shlyager''. He was awarded the People's Artist of Russia in 1996.
– composer, singer *
Valery Fokin Valery Vladimirovich Fokin (; 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 Saint Petersburg, and the President of The Meyerhold Centr ...
– theatre director *
Igor Krutoy Igor Yakovlevich Krutoy () or Ihor Yakovych Krutyi born on July 29, 1954), is a Ukrainian-Russian music composer, performer, producer and musical promoter. Krutoy was awarded the title "Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation", People's Art ...
– composer *
Valery Leontiev Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev (; born 19 March 1949) is a Soviet and Russian pop singer, sometimes songwriter and actor, whose popularity peaked in the 1980s and 1990s. He was titled a People's Artist of Russia in 1996.Tamara Miansarova – singer *
Yuriy Norshteyn Yuri Borisovich Norstein (; born 15 September 1941) is a Soviet and Russian animator best known for his animated shorts ''Hedgehog in the Fog'' and ''Tale of Tales (1979 film), Tale of Tales''. Since 1981, he has been working on a feature film ca ...
– director *
Nikolay Serebryakov Nikolay Nikolayevich Serebryakov (; 14 December 1928, Leningrad – 9 August 2005, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian director of animated films and a People's Artist of Russia People's Artist of the Russian Federation (, ''Narodnyy artist Ross ...
– director *
Margarita Terekhova Margarita Borisovna Terekhova (; born August 25, 1942, in Turinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress. She was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia in 1996. Biography Margarita Terekhova was ...
– actress * Sergei Zakharov – singer


1997

*
Yuri Antonov Yuri Mikhailovich Antonov (; born 19 February 1945) is a Soviet and Russian composer, singer and musician, People's Artist of Russia (1997).Victor Balashov – radio host * Valery Lantratov- ballet dancer *
Alexander Lenkov Alexander Sergeyevich Lenkov (; 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 films and dubbing the foreign movies to Russian. He is the Russian voi ...
– actor * Alexander Malinin – musician * Vladimir Matorin – singer *
Klara Novikova Klara Borisovna Novikova (; born Herzer (), December 12, 1946, Kiev) is a Soviet and Russian pop artist and humorist. She is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1992), People's Artist of Russia (1997), and a member of the Public Council of ...
– actress * Kirill Tikhonov – conductor


1998

* Olga Barnet – actress * Vitali Konyayev – actor *
Fuat Mansurov Fuat Mansurov (, ; January 10, 1928 – June 12, 2010) was a Soviet and Russian conductor. Biography Mansurov was born in Almaty. He graduated from Al-Farabi University in 1950 as a mathematician and then became a faculty member of the School ...
– conductor *
Sergey Migitsko Sergey Grigorievich Migitsko (; born April 23, 1953) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, TV presenter, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1991),Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 22 апреля 1 ...
– actor *
Yuri Nikolaev Yuri Alexandrovich Nikolaev (; born 16 December 1948) is a Soviet and Russian TV and radio host, and actor. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia in 1998, and since 2007 has been a member of the Academy of Russian Television. On 9 ...
– TV and radio host, actor * Maria Pakhomenko – singer *
Boris Plotnikov Boris Grigoryevich Plotnikov (; 2 April 1949 – 2 December 2020)Gennadi Poloka Gennadi Ivanovich Poloka (; 15 July 1930, Samara, Russia, Kuybyshev – 5 December 2014, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. People's Artist of Russia (1998). IV Class Order "For Merit to the Fatherla ...
– actor, director *
Nina Ruslanova Nina Ivanovna Ruslanova (; 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).
– actress *
Sergei Skripka Sergei Ivanovich Skripka (; October 5, 1949 in Kharkiv) is a USSR, Soviet and Ukrainian conductor, and a People's Artist of Russia, conductor of the State Symphony Cinema Orchestra. Early life Skripka graduated in 1972 from the Kharkiv National K ...
– conductor *
Larisa Udovichenko Larisa Ivanovna Udovichenko (; born 29 April 1955, Vienna, Austria) is a Russian actress. People's Artist of Russia (1998).
– actress * Emmanuil Vitorgan – actor *
Sergei Makovetsky } Sergei Vasilievich Makovetsky (, born 13 June 1958) is a Soviet Union, Soviet and Ukrainian-born Russian film and stage actor. His work as an actor has won him 11 awards and a further 15 nominations. Selected filmography Film *1989: ''The ...
– actor


1999

*
Alla Bayanova Alla Nikolayevna Bayanova (; 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 born in Chișinău, Kishinev in the family of an opera si ...
– singer * Andrei Chistyakov – conductor *
Valentin Dikul Valentin Ivanovich Dikul (; born 3 April 1948) is a Russian circus strongman and rehabilitation specialist. He is a People's Artist of Russia (1999) and the head of the Russian medical and rehabilitation center of the musculoskeletal system di ...
– circus performer * Vladimir Ilyin – actor *
Alexander Gradsky Alexander Borisovich Gradsky (; born Alexander Borisovich Fradkin, 3 November 1949 – 28 November 2021) was a Russian rock singer, bard, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He was one of the earliest performers of rock music in Russia. His div ...
– musician *
David Goloschekin David Semyonovich Goloschekin (''Давид Семёнович Голощёкин''; born 1944, in Moscow) is a Russian jazz musician. A multi-instrumentalist, performing on the violin (mainly), saxophone, vibraphone, piano, bass, drums and flugel ...
– musician *
Nadezhda Kadysheva Nadezhda Nikitichna Kadysheva (, ; born 1 June 1959) is a Russian folk-pop singer of Erzyan heritage, she is the soloist of the band Zolotoe Koltso. She is a Honorary Citizen of Bugulma, People's Artist of Russia (1999), People's Artist of Mord ...
– singer *
Mikhail Kononov Mikhail Ivanovich Kononov (; 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, Mikhail Kononov graduated from the Shchepkin Drama School a ...
– actor * Aristarkh Livanov – actor *
Lyudmila Polyakova Lyudmila Petrovna Polyakova (; 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 Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School (course of Viktor Korshu ...
– actress *
Andrey Makarevich Andrey Vadimovich Makarevich (; born 11 December 1953) is an Israeli and Soviet-Russian rock musician and the founder of Russia's oldest still active rock band Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine). Personal life Makarevich was born in Moscow to m ...
– musician * Tatyana Piletskaya – actress * Joseph Raihelgauz – theatre director * Alexey Rybnikov – composer * Alexey Sheynin – actor *
Nikolai Sorokin Nikolai Evgenievich Sorokin (; 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 artistic director of the Rostov-on-Don academic drama theatre ...
– actor *
Eduard Artemyev Eduard Nikolayevich Artemyev (; rus, Эдуа́рд Никола́евич Арте́мьев, p=ɨdʊˈart ɐrˈtʲemʲjɪf; 30 November 1937 – 29 December 2022) was a Soviet and Russian composer of electronic music and film scores. Outside ...
- composer


2000s


2000

* Ivan Bortnik – actor *
Tatyana Dogileva Tatyana Anatoliyevna Dogileva (; born 27 February 1957) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, Meritorious Artist of Russia (1989), and People's Artist of Russia (2000). Biography Early life and education Dogileva was born on February ...
– actress *
Taisia Kornilova Taisia Anatolievna Kornilova () is a People's Artist of Russia, circus performer, elephant trainer, screenwriter, director, artistic director of variety-circus programs. She holds several certified Guinness World Records for her achievements in e ...
— circus performer * Evgeny Brazhnik – conductor * Aleksandr Misharin (screenwriter) * Dmitry Nazarov – actor *
Emilyano Ochagaviya Emilyano Lorensovich Ochagaviya (; May 24, 1945 – February 7, 2016) was a Soviet and Russian theater actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1986), and People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2000). Biography He was born in the village of Ne ...
– actor *
Yuri Sarantsev Yuri Dmitriyevich Sarantsev (; 7 October 1928 – 24 August 2005) was a Soviet and Russian actor who appeared in numerous films between 1950 and 1999. He is most known for the 1962 sci-fi film ''Planeta Bur''. He was also an accomplished voic ...
– actor *
Alla Surikova Alla Ilinichna Surikova (; born November 6, 1940, in Kyiv) is a Soviet and Russian film director, writer, and teacher. She is a People's Artist of Russia (2000), winner of the Award of the Government of the Russian Federation (2009), and a member ...
– director * Svetlana Morgunova – dictor


2001

*
Lev Borisov Lev Ivanovich Borisov (Russian language, Russian: Лев Иванович Борисов; 8 December 1933, Plyos, Ivanovo Oblast, Plyos – 15 November 2011, Moscow) was a Russian actor. Brother of Oleg Borisov. He was a People's Artist of R ...
– actor *
Zakhar Bron Zakhar Bron ( ; born 17 December 1947) is a Russian violinist and renowned pedagogue He has been living in Western Europe since 1989. Background Bron was born in Oral, Kazakhstan to a Jewish family. His parents fled to the Soviet Union in th ...
– violinist * Boris Bystrov – actor *
Lydia Davydova Lydia Anatolyevna Davydova (Russian: Лидия Анатольевна Давыдова) (19 January 1932 – 2 March 2011) was a Russian soprano, harpsichordist and a chamber music performer. As a singer her repertoire encompassed on one extreme ...
– singer *
Sergei Filin Sergei Yurevitch Filin (; born 27 October 1970) is a Russian ballet dancer and the former artistic director of the Bolshoi Theater from 2011 through 2016. He is currently the Director of the Young Artists Ballet Program at the Bolshoi Theatre. ...
– ballet dancer *
Oleg Gazmanov Oleg Mikhaylovich Gazmanov (; born 22 July 1951) is a Russian singer, composer and poet, specializing in patriotic and nationalist songs, as well as songs which cover more conventional pop themes. Gazmanov is the lead singer of the pop group "Э ...
– singer *
Boris Khmelnitsky Boris Alexandrovich Khmelnitsky (; born on 27 June 1940 in Ussuriysk, died on 16 February 2008 in Moscow) was a Russian theatre and movie actor. Biography He worked many years in the Taganka Theatre in Moscow. In cinema, he was known for many o ...
– actor * Georgi Movsesyan – composer *
Ilya Oleynikov Ilya Lvovich Oleynikov (; born Ilya Lvovich Klyaver (Клявер); 10 July 1947 – 11 November 2012) was a Russian comic actor and television personality, TEFI winner (1996, 2001), People's Artist of Russia (2001).
– actor * Yuriy Stoyanov – actor *
Slava Polunin Vyacheslav Ivanovich “Slava” Polunin PARAlexander Rosenbaum Alexander Yakovlevich Rosenbaum People's Artist of Russia, PAR (, ''Aleksandr Jakovlevič Rozenbaum'') (born September 13, 1951) is a Russian Bard (Soviet Union), bard from Saint Petersburg. Among his most famous songs are the ones about Saint ...
– musician * Vladimir Steklov – actor *
Nikolay Tsiskaridze Nikolay Maximovich Tsiskaridze PAR (; ka, ნიკოლოზ ცისკარიძე, ''Nik'oloz Cisk'aridze'') is a Georgian-Russian ballet dancer who had been a member of the Bolshoi Ballet for 21 years (1992–2013). Biography Ea ...
– ballet dancer *
Alexandra Zakharova Aleksandra Markovna Zakharova (, born 17 June 1962) is a Soviet and Russian actress, daughter of famous film director Mark Zakharov and actress Nina Lapshinova. Zakharova has been awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1996 Ука ...
– actress


2002

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Olga Borodina Olga Vladimirovna Borodina (born 29 July 1963, in Leningrad)Borodina, Ol ...
– singer *
Gennady Gladkov Gennady Igorevich Gladkov (; 18 February 1935 – 16 October 2023) was a Soviet and Russian composer. He composed music for some of the most famous Soviet movies and cartoons, most notably ''The Bremen Town Musicians (1969 film), The Bremen Town ...
– composer *
Boris Klyuyev Boris Vladimirovich Klyuyev (; 13 July 1944 — 1 September 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actor and theatre teacher. He served as one of the lead actors of the Maly Theatre from 1969 to 2020 and taught acting technique in Shchepkin Higher Thea ...
– actor *
Tatyana Kravchenko Tatyana Eduardovna Kravchenko (; born 9 December 1953, Donetsk Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, People's Artist of Russia (2002).
– actress *
Vladimir Ponkin Vladimir Ponkin is a Russian principal conductor, Professor and a recipient of both the Golden Mask and People's Artist of Russia award from Irkutsk. He is also a 2001 medal recipient ''For the merits in development of Cuban region'' and a 2006 ...
– conductor * Stahan Rakhimov – singer *
Nikolay Rastorguyev Nikolay Vyacheslavovich Rastorguyev (; born February 21, 1957, Lytkarino, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union) is the lead singer of the Russian group Lyube. In 1978, Nikolay was the soloist for the band (VIA in Russian) "Шестеро молод ...
– singer *
Karen Shakhnazarov Karen Georgievich Shakhnazarov (; born 8 July 1952) is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter. He became the director general of Mosfilm in 1998. Biography Shakhnazarov is the son of a Georgy Shakhnazarov, a politician of A ...
– filmmaker *
Elena Yakovleva Elena Alexeevna Yakovleva (; born 5 March 1961) is a Soviet and Russian actress known for her roles in such films as '' Intergirl'' and '' Encore, Once More Encore!'' as well as for the main role in the popular TV-series ''Kamenskaya''. She ...
– actress *
Leonid Yakubovich Leonid Arkadyevich Yakubovich PARAlla Yoshpe – singer * Ludmila Senchina – singer


2003

* Kama Ginkas – theatre director *
Igor Kashintsev Igor Konstantinovich Kashintsev (;Andrey Kovalchuk – sculptor *
Oleg Menshikov Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov, PAR (; born 8 November 1960) is a Russian actor, theatre director and occasional singer. He is the current artistic director of the Yermolova Theatre in Moscow. Internationally, Menshikov is the best known for his r ...
– actor *
Leonid Nechayev Leonid Alexeyevich Nechayev (; 3 May 1939 – 24 January 2010) was a Russian children's film director.Елена ЮринскаяПапа Лёня: Скончался кинорежиссёр Леонид Нечаев. Российская газ ...
– director *
Viktor Rakov Viktor Viktorovich Rakov (; born February 5, 1962) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. People's Artist of Russia (2003). Biography He was born February 5, 1962, in Moscow and after graduating in 1984 from GITIS he became an actor in ...
– actor *
Ilya Reznik Ilya Rahmielevich Reznik (; born April 4, 1938) is a Russian poet and songwriter, People's Artist of Russia (2003). Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Born in Leningrad, he is the lyricist of popular pop songs to the music of Genn ...
– poet * Andrei Smirnov – actor, director * Zinovy Vysokovsky – actor *
Aleksandr Zatsepin Aleksandr Sergeyevich Zatsepin (; born 10 March 1926) is a Soviet and Russian composer, known for his soundtracks to movies, notably comedies directed by Leonid Gaidai. People's Artist of Russia (2003) and Hero of Labour of the Russian Federat ...
– composer * Mikhail Tanich – poet


2004

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Oleg Anofriyev Oleg Andreyevich Anofriyev (sometimes spelled Anofriev, ; 20 July 193028 March 2018), PAR, was a Soviet and Russian theatreРусский драматический театр: Энциклопедия / Под общ. ред. М. И. Андрее ...
– actor, musician *
Igor Yuryevich Ivanov Igor Yuryevich Ivanov (; born 19 May 1954) is a Soviet and Russian actor of theater and director. He is a People's Artist of Russia (2004). Education and work Igor Ivanov graduated 1979 from the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre Music and ...
– actor *
Zinaida Ignatyeva Zinaida Ignatyeva (; also spelled Zinaida Ignatieva; 1 February 1938 – 23 March 2022) was a Russian pianist. Born in Moscow, Ignatyeva was a student at the Moscow Conservatory under Samuil Feinberg, where she was awarded the VI International Ch ...
– pianist *
Tamara Gverdtsiteli Tamara Gverdtsiteli ( ka, თამარ გვერდწითელი}, ; born 18 January 1962) is a Georgian, Israeli, Soviet and Russian singer, actress and composer. People's Artist of Georgia (1991) and Russia (2004) Early life and e ...
– singer * Yevgeny Mironov – actor *
Alexander Mitta Alexander Naumovich Mitta (; born 28 March 1933 in Moscow) is a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and actor. Mitta's birth name was Alexander Naumovich Rabinovich (). He studied engineering (graduated in 1955), then wor ...
– director * Alexander Morozov – composer * Vladimir Nazarov – musician *
Andrey Smolyakov Andrey Igorevich Smolyakov (; born 24 November 1958) is a Soviet and Russian actor and director. He is known for '' Vysotskiy. Spasibo, chto zhivoy'' (2011), ''Stalingrad'', and '' Forbidden Empire''. Life Smolyakov was born in Podolsk, Moscow O ...
– actor *
Alexander Sokurov Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov, PAR (; born 14 June 1951) is a Russian filmmaker. His most significant works include a feature film, ''Russian Ark'' (2002), filmed in a single unedited shot, and ''Faust'' (2011), which was honoured with the G ...
– director *
Maurice Yaklashkin Maurice Nikolaevich Yaklashkin (; born on August 4, 1947,. village Chuteevo of the Yantikovsky District of the Chuvash ASSR) is a choral, opera and symphony conductor, music teacher, People's Artist of Russia, Honored Art Worker of the Chuvash AS ...
– conductor *
Valeriya Zaklunna Valeriya Gavriilovna Zaklunna-Myronenko (, ; 15 August 1942, Stalingrad – 22 October 2016, Kyiv) was a Soviet and Ukrainian actress and politician. A member of the Communist Party of Ukraine, she was a co-winner, with other members of the cast ...
– actress


2005

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Sergei Artsibashev Sergei Nikolayevich Artsibashev (), less Artsybashev (); September 14, 1951, Kalja, North Urals District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, USSR — July 12, 2015, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian theater director and actor. From 2002 until 2011 he was the artist ...
– director * Yuriy Nazarov – actor * Vladimir Ovchinnikov - pianist *
Sergei Roldugin Sergei Pavlovich Roldugin ( Russian: Сергей Павлович Ролдугин, born 28 September 1951 Sakhalin) is a Russian cellist and businessman based in St Petersburg. He is a close friend of Vladimir Putin. He has been implicate ...
– cellist * Boris Romanov – actor *
Raisa Ryazanova Raisa Ivanovna Ryazanova (; born 31 October 1944 in Petropavlovsk) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. She has performed in more than sixty films since 1969. She won the State Prize of the USSR (1981) and was the People's Artist of R ...
– actress *
Valentin Smirnitsky Valentin Georgievich Smirtinsky (; born 10 June 1944 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of Russia (2005). Filmography * ''Walking the Streets of Moscow'' (Я шагаю по Москве, 1963) as episode (un ...
– actor * Svetlana Smirnova – actress *
Valentin Yudashkin Valentin Abramovich Yudashkin ( ; 14 October 1963 – 2 May 2023) was a Russian fashion designer. Career Yudashkin born in Moscow Oblast, Yudashkin came to prominence during the 1980s, dressing Raisa Gorbacheva. He is considered the first pos ...
– fashion designer *
Era Ziganshina Era Garafovna Ziganshina (, ; born February 1, 1944) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, People's Artist of Russia (2005). Biography Ziganshina was born in Kazan, Soviet Union. She studied at drama school at the Tovstonogov Bolsho ...
– actress


2006

* Svyatoslav Belza – critic *
Yuri Bosco Yuri Ivanovich Bosco () (24 September 1930 – 4 February 2019) was a Russian artist, an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1963) and People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2006). Early life Bosco was born on 24 September 1930 in Samarkand. His ...
– artist * Aleksandr Galibin – actor *
Sergei Garmash Sergei Leonidovich Garmash (; born 1 September 1958) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor. He is a People's Artist of Russia. In 2013 he was a member of the jury at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival. Biography Early life and edu ...
– actor * Vitaly Logvinovsky – actor *
Ulyana Lopatkina Ulyana Vyacheslavovna Lopatkina (; born 23 October 1973) is a Russian prima ballerina who performed with the Mariinsky Theatre from 1991–2017. She studied at the Vaganova Academy with Natalia Dudinskaya. Upon graduation Lopatkina joined the ...
– ballet dancer *
Alexander Pyatkov Alexander Alexandrovich Pyatkov (; born July 31, 1950, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. In 2006 he was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia. In 2003 Pyatkov became a member of the United Russia party. Selected film ...
– actor *
Angelina Vovk Angelina Mikhaylovna Vovk ( rus, Ангели́на Миха́йловна Вовк, , ɐnɡʲɪˈlʲinə mʲɪˈxajləvnə ˈvofk; born September 16, 1942) is a former presenter for the Soviet Central Television active from 1980, best known for ...
– actress * Slava Zaitsev – fashion designer *
Marina Zudina Marina Vyacheslavovna Zudina (; born 3 September 1965) is a Soviet and Russian actress of theatre and cinema. Biography Early life and education Marina Vyacheslavovna Zudina was born on 3 September 1965 in Moscow. Her father was a journalist and ...
– actress


2007

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Irina Alfyorova Irina Ivanovna Alfyorova PARAleksandr Domogarov – actor *
Margarita Fyodorova Margarita Alekseevna Fyodorova - Маргарита Алексеевна Фёдорова (4 November 1927 - 14 August 2016) was a Soviet Russian pianist, People's Artist of Russia. She won silver in the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competi ...
– pianist *
Vladimir Galouzine Vladimir Vasilyevich Galouzine (, ''Vladimir Galuzin'', ) is a Russian tenor. He has performed in such Russian operas as '' The Queen of Spades'', '' Boris Godunov'' and '' Khovanshchina'' and has performed the lead tenor roles in Italian operas ...
– singer *
Aleksei Guskov Aleksei Gennadyevich Guskov (, born 20 May 1958) is a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian actor and producer. He was awarded People's Artist of Russia in 2007. Early life Aleksei Guskov was born to Russian parents on 20 May 1958 in Brzeg, Pola ...
– actor *
Dmitry Kharatyan Dmitry Vadimovich Kharatyan (born 21 January 1960) is a Soviet and Russian actor of Armenian descent, People's Artist of Russia. Was born in Olmaliq, Uzbek SSR on 21 January 1960. His debut as an actor came in Vladimir Menshov's ''Practical J ...
– actor *
Irina Rozanova Irina Yurievna Rozanova (; born 22 July 1961) is a Russian actress. She has appeared in more than 80 films and television shows since 1985. In 2008 she was a member of the jury at the 30th Moscow International Film Festival. Biography Rozanova w ...
– actress *
Diana Vishneva Diana Viktorovna Vishneva (''also Romanization of Russian, trans.'' Vishnyova; ; born 13 July 1976) is a Russian ballet dancer who performs as a principal dancer with the Mariinsky Ballet (formerly the Kirov Ballet). Personal life Vishneva wa ...
– ballet dancer *
Konstantin Lopushansky Konstantin Sergeyevich Lopushansky (; born June 12, 1947) is a USSR, Soviet and Russian film director, film theorist and author. He is best known for directing the Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic films '' ...
– director


2008

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Sergey Bezrukov Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov (; 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 the Russian Federation. He currently works at Tabakov Studio (the theatre of ...
– actor *
Yuri Chernov Yury Nikolayevich Chernov (; born 24 April 1949) is a Soviet and Russian actor of theatre and cinema. Honored Artist of Russia (1994) and People's Artist of Russia (2008). Biography Yuri was born on 24 April 1949 in the city of Kuibyshev. ...
– actor *
Philipp Kirkorov Philipp Bedros Kirkorov (, ; ; born 30 April 1967) is a Bulgarian-born Russian pop singer. Kirkorov's career began in 1985 with participation in the Soviet musical TV show "Wider Circle". Since 2000, he has maintained public interest in his pe ...
– singer * Yulia Makhalina – ballet dancer *
Anna Netrebko Anna Yuryevna Netrebko (; born 18 September 1971) is a Russian and Austrian operatic soprano who has performed at the Salzburg Festival, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera and La Scala. Netrebko is one of the few Russian p ...
– singer * Svetlana Zakharova – prima-ballerina


2009

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Maria Alexandrova Maria Aleksandrovna Alexandrova (; born 20 July 1978) is a Russian principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet, People’s Artist of Russia. Biography Alexandrova was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, and attended the Moscow Choreographic Academy. Sh ...
– ballet dancer *
Nikolay Baskov Nikolay Victorovich Baskov ( rus, Николай Викторович Басков, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪdʑ ˈbaskəf, - bɐsˈkof; born 15 October 1976) is a Russian tenor who performs in both operatic and popular-music styl ...
– singer * Alexey Buldakov – actor * Oleg Mityaev – musician * Anatoly Mukasei – cinematographer *
Valentina Telichkina Valentina Ivanovna Telichkina (; born January 10, 1945) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2009). Biography Valentina Telichkina was born January 10, 1945 (the day of the forty-year anniv ...
– actress *
Roman Viktyuk Roman Hryhorovych Viktyuk (; ; 28 October 1936 – 17 November 2020) was a Soviet and Russian Ukrainian-born theatre director, actor and screenwriter. Biography Viktyuk was born in Lwów, Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine.Irina Allegrova Irina Aleksandrovna Allegrova (; born 20 January 1952) is a Russian singer. She is a People's Artist of Russia (2010).
– singer *
Vladimir Khotinenko Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko (; born 20 January 1952 in Slavgorod, Altai Krai, Soviet Union) is a Russian actor, film director and designer. Biography Born in the Altai Krai, Russian SFSR to Ivan Afanasyevich and Valentina Vasilievna Khotinenko ...
– actor, director *
Dmitry Malikov Dmitry Yurievich Malikov (; born 29 January 1970) is a Russian singer, composer, occasional actor and a recent record producer. Early life Dmitry Malikov, who goes by his nickname Dima (Дима), was born in Moscow. His mother, Lyudmila Mikha ...
– musician *
Vladimir Mashkov Vladimir Lvovich Mashkov (; born 27 November 1963) is a Russian actor and theater director of cinema. He is known to Western audiences for his work in the 2001 film ''Behind Enemy Lines (2001 film), Behind Enemy Lines'' and 2011 film ''Mission: ...
– actor * Aleksei Serebryakov – actor * Vyacheslav Spesivtsev – actor *
Alexander Buinov Alexander Nikolaevich Buinov (, born 24 March 1950) is a Russian singer, songwriter and keyboardist. He is best known for his tenure with Vesyolye Rebyata between 1973 and 1989, before starting his solo career. In the English-speaking world, he ...
– singer


2011

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Igor Butman Igor Mikhailovich Butman (; born 27 October 1961) is a Russian jazz saxophonist born in St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Soviet Union (now St. Petersburg, Russia) in 1961. Butman holds dual citizenship for both the United States and Russian Federat ...
– saxophonist *
Fyodor Dobronravov Fyodor Viktorovich Dobronravov (; born 11 September 1961) is a Soviet and Russian stage and cinema actor, Honored Artist of Russia (2002), People's Artist of Russia (2011).
– actor *
Vera Glagoleva Vera Vitalievna Glagoleva (; 31 January 1956 – 16 August 2017) was a Soviet and Russian actress and film director. Glagoleva was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1956. She starred in her first film in 1975 after graduating from h ...
– actress and film director *
Andrei Khrzhanovsky Andrei Yurievich Khrzhanovsky (; born 30 November 1939 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian animator, documentary filmmaker, writer and producer known for making art films. He is the father of director Ilya Khrzhanovsky. Married to philologist, e ...
– film director *
Denis Matsuev Denis Leonidovich Matsuev (/ma'tsujef/; ; born June 11, 1975) is a Russian pianist. Primarily a classical pianist, he also performs jazz occasionally. Biography Born in Irkutsk, Soviet Union, Matsuev is the only child of two musicians, his moth ...
– pianist * Lev Matyushin - sculptor *
Boris Nevzorov Boris Georgievich Nevzorov (; 18 January 1950 – 18 February 2022) was a Russian actor and film director. He was an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1997)
– actor, director *
Irma Nioradze Irma Nioradze in 2011 Irma Nioradze ( ka, ირმა ნიორაძე, ; born June 15, 1969, in Tbilisi, Georgia), is a Georgian ballerina and Principal Dancer of the Kirov-Mariinsky Ballet. Biography Irma Nioradze was born in Tbilisi ...
– ballet dancer


2012

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Dmitry Gudanov Dmitry Konstantinovich Gudanov () is a People's Artist of Russia and principal dancer of Bolshoi Ballet. He retired from the Bolshoi in July 2017. Early life and awards Gudanov was born 9 July 1975 in Moscow, Russia. From 1985 to 1994 he attende ...
– ballet dancer *
Konstantin Khabensky Konstantin Yurievich Khabensky, People's Artist of Russia, PAR (; born 11 January 1972) is a Russian actor of stage and film, director and philanthropist. From 1997 he was part of the Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre cast until 2000, after whi ...
– actor *
Chulpan Khamatova Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova (; ; , born 1 October 1975) is a Russian actress. Biography Early life and theater career Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova was born on 1 October 1975 in Kazan, Tatar ASSR, in what was then the Soviet Union. Her parents Mar ...
– actress *
Bedros Kirkorov Bedros Filippovich Kirkorov (2 June 1932 – 18 March 2025) was a Bulgarian and Russian singer and bandleader. Born in Varna to an Armenian family, he was awarded the People's Artist of Russia title and was the father of fellow singer Philipp Kir ...
– singer * Hibla Gerzmava – opera singer * Mariya Aronova – actress


2013

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Nikolai Chindyajkin Nikolai Dmitrievich Chindyajkin () is a Russian actor and theatre director. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1985), People's Artist of Russia (2013). Personal life In 2022, he supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Consequently, he was sanction ...
– actor *
Nikolai Lugansky Nikolai Lvovich Lugansky (; born 26 April 1972) is a Russian pianist. Early life and education Nikolai Lugansky was born on 26 April 1972 in Moscow, Russia, to research scientist parents. At the age of five, before he had learned to read music ...
– pianist * Natalya Gvozdikova – actress *
Lev Prygunov Lev Georgievich Prygunov (; born 23 April 1939, Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR) is a Russian actor, painter, People's Artist of Russia (2013). His son is a Russian film director . After graduation, he studied for two years at the biological faculty of t ...
– actor *
Igor Sklyar Igor Borisovich Sklyar (; born 18 December 1957) is a Russian actor and singer. He has appeared in over 30 films since 1974. He starred in the 1994 film, '' The Year of the Dog'', which won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contributi ...
– actor * Aleksandr Trofimov – actor *
Valeriya Alla Yurievna Perfilova (; born April 17, 1968), known by her stage name Valeriya (), is a Russian singer and fashion model. A recipient of the titles People's Artist of Russia (2013) and People's Artist of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republi ...
– 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 Servi ...
– conductor, composer *
Anna Odintsova Anna Viktorovna Odintsova () is a Russian ballet dancer, prima ballerina of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, Honored Artist of Russia (2014). Biography Anna Odintsova was born in Novosibirsk. In 1998, she graduated from the Novosibirsk C ...
- ballet dancer


2015

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Arkady Arkanov Arkady Mikhailovich Arkanov (; 7 June 1933 – 22 March 2015) was a Russian writer, doctor, playwright and stand-up comedian. Biography Arkanov was born Arkady Mikhailovich Steinbock in Kyiv, USSR. At the onset of World War II in 1941, he was ...
– actor (posthumous) *
Kseniya Rappoport Kseniya Aleksandrovna Rappoport (; born 25 March 1974) is a Russian actress. She graduated in 2000 from Saint Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Arts and was immediately invited to join the Maly Drama Theatre. She played Nina Zarechnaya in ''The ...
– actress


2016

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Vladimir Nosik Vladimir Benediktovich Nosik () is a Soviet and Russian actor, Honored Artist of Russia (1993), People's Artist of Russia (2016). His older brother is People's Artist of Russia Valery Nosik. His daughter is actress Ekaterina Nosik. Selected filmog ...
– actor *
Yuliya Rutberg Yuliya Ilinichna Rutberg (; born July 8, 1965, Moscow, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress, and People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2016). She is a Laureate of the Russian theatre awards. Selected filmography * 1989 — ...
– actress * Alexander Sladkovsky – conductor * Igor Vernik – actor


2017

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Olga Pogodina Olga Stanislavovna Pogodina (; born 21 September 1976) is a Russian actress known for her work on several dozens of Russian TV series and movie pictures (including Russian-Italian films). She is also a film producer, screenwriter and show host. ...
– actress


2018

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


2019

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Mikhail Porechenkov Mikhail Yevgenyevich Porechenkov (; born 2 March 1969) is a Russian film actor, producer, director. He became famous after his lead role as FSB Agent Alexey Nikolayev in the TV series ''National Security Agent'' (1999–2005). In 2008, Porechenko ...
- actor *
Angelina Vovk Angelina Mikhaylovna Vovk ( rus, Ангели́на Миха́йловна Вовк, , ɐnɡʲɪˈlʲinə mʲɪˈxajləvnə ˈvofk; born September 16, 1942) is a former presenter for the Soviet Central Television active from 1980, best known for ...
- presenter *
Igor Nikolayev Igor Yuryevich Nikolayev (; born 17 January 1960) is a Russian composer, singer and songwriter. Biography Nikolayev was born in Kholmsk, Sakhalin Oblast, into the family of Sakhalin-marinist poet Yury Nikolayev. He graduated from pop Branch ( ...
- composer, singer


2020s


2020

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Anna Kovalchuk Anna Leonidovna Kovalchuk (; born 15 June 1977) is a Russian actress known for her roles in film, television, and theater. She gained widespread recognition for her performances in popular Russian television series and the critically acclaimed ...
- actress * Felix Korobov - conductor * Aleksei Kravchenko - actor *
Maria Mironova Maria Andreyevna Mironova (; born 28 May 1973) is a Soviet and Russian actress. She was named People's Artist of Russia in 2020. Biography Maria was born on 28 May 1973 in Moscow, to actors Andrei Mironov and Ekaterina Gradova. After gradua ...
- actress


2021

* Andrey Ilyin - actor * Galina Tyunina - actress *
Anita Tsoy Anna Sergeyevna "Anita" Tsoy (; born Kim, ; 7 February 1971) is a Russian singer-songwriter of Korean descent. She is a People's Artist of Russia (2021). Early life Anita's grandfather, seeking free education, emigrated from Korea to the Russ ...
- singer * Natalia Vdovina - actress


2022

* Vladislav Vetrov - actor *
Elena Sanayeva Elena Vsevolodovna Sanayeva (; born 21 October 1942, Kuibyshev) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress and social activist. She is an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1990).Награждена указом президиума Верхов ...
- actress *
Alexander Kniazev Alexandre Alexandrovitch Kniazev () (born 26 April 1961 in Moscow) is a Russian cellist and organist. He was named best musician of the year in Russia in 1999. Kniazev studied music at Moscow Conservatory. He entered the cello class of Alexand ...
- cellist, organist *
Vadim Repin Vadim Viktorovich Repin (, ; born 31 August 1971) is a Russian and Belgian violinist who lives in Vienna.A ...
- violinist *
Diana Gurtskaya Diana Gudaevna Gurtskaya ( ka, დიანა ღურწკაია, , born 2 July 1978) is a Russian pop singer well known in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Early life Diana Gurtskaya was born July 2, 1978, in Abkhazia (ex- Soviet ...
- singer * Stas Mikhaylov - singer *
Grigory Leps Grigory Viktorovich Lepsveridze (, ka, გრიგორი ვიქტორის ძე ლეფსვერიძე), known as Grigory Leps; born 16 July 1962), is a Russian singer-songwriter of Georgian origin. His musical style grad ...
- singer *
Igor Matvienko Igor Igorevich Matvienko (; born February 6, 1960, in Moscow, RSFSR) is a Soviet and Russian producer, composer, founder of the bands Lyube, Ivanushki International, Korni, Fabrika, KuBa. Compositions Igor Matvienko wrote many songs in collab ...
- composer, producer


2023

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Valery Lednev Valery () is a male given name and occasional surname. It is derived from the Latin name ''Valerius''. The Slavic given name Valeriy or Valeri is prevalent in Russia and derives directly from the Latin. Given name * Valery Afanassiev, Russian pia ...
- painter *
Vladimir Pozner Vladimir Pozner may refer to *Vladimir Pozner Jr. (born 1934), French-born Russian-American journalist and broadcaster * Vladimir Pozner Sr. (1908–1975), Soviet spy *Vladimir Pozner (writer) Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner (; 5 January 1905 in P ...
- journalist


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Awards and decorations of the Russian Federation An award, sometimes called a distinction, is given to a recipient as a token of Recognition (sociology), recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decora ...
* Ministerial Awards of the Russian Federation *
List of awards of independent services of the Russian Federation This article features the awards of non-ministerial and independent services of the Russian Federation. Federal Security Service Federal Protective Service National Guard Foreign Intelligence Service Medals Decorations Main Direct ...


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