People's Artist of Russia

People's Artist of the Russian Federation
Awarded for	Outstanding achievements in the performing arts
Country	Russian Federation
Presented by	President of Russia
First awarded	February 21, 1992; 29 years ago (1992-02-21)

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, all outstanding in the performing arts, whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts (theatre, music, dance, circus, cinema, etc.).^[1]

It succeeded both the all-Soviet Union "People's Artist of the USSR" award (Народный артист СССР), and more directly the local republic's "People's Artist of the RSFSR" award (Народный артист РСФСР), after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. 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 (Заслуженный артист Zasluzhenniy artist) also translates as "Meritorious Artist". This was equivalent to the earlier «Заслуженный артист РСФСР», which became «Заслуженный артист Российской Федерации».^[2]
• 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 was awarded Honored Artist of the RSFSR (Заслуженный артист РСФСР) in 1988, then People's Artist of Russia (Народный артист России) in 1996.^[3]

Categories awarded[]

The awards may be issued to people working in the following fields:

Other professionals are open to attaining the title as well as those listed.

Gallery[]

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  Stage actor Yuri Lyubimov

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  Ballet dancer Nina Ananiashvili

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  Operatic singer Dmitri Hvorostovsky

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  Singer Valery Leontiev

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  Conductor Valery Gergiev

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  Composer and singer Yuri Antonov

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  Musician Andrey Makarevich

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  Composer Eduard Artemyev

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  Composer David Tukhmanov

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  Bard Alexander Rosenbaum

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  Composer Aleksandr Zatsepin

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  Filmmaker Alexander Sokurov

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  Singer Philipp Kirkorov

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  Ballet dancer Svetlana Zakharova

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  Actor Sergey Bezrukov

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  Operatic singer Anna Netrebko

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  Singer Nikolay Baskov

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  Classical pianist Denis Matsuev

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  Writer, satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky

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  Actor Konstantin Khabensky

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  Actress Chulpan Khamatova

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  Conductor Valery Khalilov

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  Actress Kseniya Rappoport

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  Singer Lev Leshchenko

People's Artist of the Russian Federation (list)[]

1992[]

• Vadim Abdrashitov — film director
• Vera Alentova – actress
• Gennadi Bortnikov – actor
• Ivan I. Krasko – actor
• Yuri Lyubimov – actor
• Tamara Nosova – actress
• Tatiana Samoilova – actress
• Vitaly Solomin – actor
• Tatyana Vasilyeva – actress

1993[]

• Lev Dodin – theatre director
• Pyotr Fomenko – film and theatre director
• Georgy Garanian – musician
• Boris Khimichev – actor
• Olga Ostroumova – actress
• Ruzhena Sikora – singer
• Sergei Solovyov – director
• Evgeniy Steblov – actor
• Olga Volkova ��� actress
• Irina Zhurina – singer

1994[]

• Liya Akhedzhakova – actress
• Oleksandr Bondurianskyi – pianist
• Boris Novikov – actor
• Albert Filozov – actor
• Yevgeny Krylatov – composer
• Rimma Markova – actress
• Andrey Martynov – actor
• Irina Muravyova – actress
• Georgy Natanson – director
• Valery Nosik – actor
• Victor Pavlov – actor
• Elvina Podchernikova-Elvorti – circus performer
• Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov – actor, director
• – bayan-virtuoso
• Boris Shcherbakov – actor
• Nina Usatova – actress
• Anatoly Vasilyev – actor
• Gennadi Yukhtin – actor
• Aleksei Zharkov – actor
• Lev Leshchenko – singer

1995[]

• Nina Ananiashvili – ballet dancer
• Yevgeniya Glushenko – actress
• Dmitri Hvorostovsky – singer
• Igor Kostolevsky – actor
• Savva Kulish – director
• Gennady Pasko – painter
• Vladimir Rubin – composer
• Yevgeniya Simonova – actress
• Vladimir Verbitsky – conductor

1996[]

• Svetlana Bezrodnaya – violinist
• Alexander Burdonsky – theater director
• Nikolai Burlyayev – actor
• Vyacheslav Dobrynin – composer, singer
• Valery Fokin – theatre director
• Valery Gergiev – conductor
• Nadezhda Gracheva – ballet dancer
• Igor Krutoy – composer
• Valery Leontiev – singer
• Tamara Miansarova – singer
• Yuriy Norshteyn – director
• Valery Polyansky – conductor
• Natalya Seleznyova – actress
• Nikolay Serebryakov – director
• Mikhail Svetin – actor
• Margarita Terekhova – actress
• Sergei Zakharov – singer

1997[]

• Yuri Antonov – musician
• Victor Balashov – radio host
• Valery Lantratov- ballet dancer
• Alexander Lenkov – actor
• Alexander Malinin – musician
• Vladimir Matorin – singer
• Klara Novikova – actress
• Kirill Tikhonov – conductor

1998[]

• Olga Barnet – actress
• Vitali Konyayev – actor
• Fuat Mansurov – conductor
• Sergey Migitsko – actor
• Yuri Nikolaev – TV and radio host, actor
• Maria Pakhomenko – singer
• Boris Plotnikov – actor
• Gennadi Poloka – actor, director
• Nina Ruslanova – actress
• Sergei Skripka – conductor
• Larisa Udovichenko – actress
• Emmanuil Vitorgan – actor

1999[]

• Alla Bayanova – singer
• Andrei Chistyakov – conductor
• Valentin Dikul – circus performer
• Vladimir Ilyin – actor
• Alexander Gradsky – musician
• David Goloschekin – musician
• Nadezhda Kadysheva – singer
• Mikhail Kononov – actor
• Aristarkh Livanov – actor
• Lyudmila Polyakova – actress
• Andrey Makarevich – musician
• Tatyana Piletskaya – actress
• Joseph Raihelgauz – theatre director
• Alexey Rybnikov – composer
• Alexey Sheynin – actor
• Nikolai Sorokin – actor

2000s[]

2000[]

• Ivan Bortnik – actor
• Tatyana Dogileva – actress
• Taisia Kornilova — circus performer
• Evgeny Brazhnik – conductor
• Aleksandr Misharin (screenwriter)
• Dmitry Nazarov – actor
• Emilyano Ochagaviya – actor
• Yuri Sarantsev – actor
• Alla Surikova – director

2001[]

• Lev Borisov – actor
• Zakhar Bron – violinist
• Boris Bystrov – actor
• Lydia Davydova – singer
• Sergei Filin – ballet dancer
• Oleg Gazmanov – singer
• Boris Khmelnitsky – actor
• Georgi Movsesyan – composer
• Ilya Oleynikov – actor
• Slava Polunin – circus performer, actor
• Alexander Rosenbaum – musician
• Vladimir Steklov – actor
• Nikolay Tsiskaridze – ballet dancer
• 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, director
• Zinovy Vysokovsky – actor
• Aleksandr Zatsepin – composer

2004[]

• Oleg Anofriyev – actor, musician
• Igor Yuryevich Ivanov – actor
• Zinaida Ignatyeva – pianist
• Tamara Gverdtsiteli – singer
• Yevgeny Mironov – actor
• Alexander Mitta – director
• Alexander Morozov – composer
• Vladimir Nazarov – musician
• Andrey Smolyakov – actor
• Alexander Sokurov – director
• Maurice Yaklashkin – conductor
• Valeriya Zaklunna – actress

2005[]

• Sergei Artsibashev – director
• Yuriy Nazarov – actor
• Sergei Roldugin – cellist
• Boris Romanov – actor
• Raisa Ryazanova – actress
• Valentin Smirnitsky – actor
• 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[]

• Sergey Bezrukov – actor
• Yuri Chernov – actor
• Philipp Kirkorov – singer
• Yulia Makhalina – ballet dancer
• Anna Netrebko – singer

2009[]

• Maria Alexandrova – ballet dancer
• Nikolay Baskov – 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
• Vyacheslav Spesivtsev – actor
• Alexander Buinov – singer

2011[]

• Fyodor Dobronravov – actor
• Vera Glagoleva – actress and film director
• Andrei Khrzhanovsky – film director
• Denis Matsuev – pianist
• Boris Nevzorov – actor, director
• Irma Nioradze – ballet dancer

2012[]

• Dmitry Gudanov – ballet dancer
• Konstantin Khabensky – actor
• Chulpan Khamatova – actress

2013[]

• Nikolai Chindyajkin – actor
• Nikolai Lugansky – pianist
• Natalya Gvozdikova – actress
• Lev Prygunov – actor
• Igor Sklyar – actor
• Aleksandr Trofimov – actor
• Valeriya – singer

2014[]

• Valery Khalilov – conductor, composer

2015[]

• Arkady Arkanov – actor (posthumous)
• Kseniya Rappoport – actress

2016[]

• – actress
• – actor
• Vladimir Nosik – actor
• – actress
• Alexander Sladkovsky – conductor
• Igor Vernik – actor

2017[]

• Olga Pogodina – actress

2018[]

• Viktoria Tereshkina – ballet dancer^[4]

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

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