People's Artist of Russia
People's Artist of the Russian Federation, 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.
It succeeded both the all-Soviet Union "People's Artist of the USSR" award, and more directly the local republic's "People's Artist of the RSFSR" award, 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 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 is the highest honorary title of the Russian Federation for outstanding achievements in the field of theater, music, circus, vaudeville, and film art.
Categories awarded
The awards may be issued to people working in the following fields:- Teacher
- Artist
- Agronomist
- Architect
- Chemist
- Miner
- Veterinarian
- Military Pilot
- Military Expert
- Military Navigator
- Doctor
- Geologist
- Scientist
- Land surveyor
- Husbandry
- Inventor
- Designer
- Forester
- Test Pilot
- Mechanic
- Metallurgist
- Meteorologist
- 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 Aerospace Industry
People's Artist of the Russian Federation (list)
1992
February 21, 1992- Ivan Krasko — actor
- Boris Diev — composer
- Lyudmila Fedotova, actress and singer
- Vladimir Bylkov — theater director
- Gennady Frolov — actor
- Tamara Krasnyuk-Yablokova — actress
- Tatyana Samoylova – actress
- Tamara Nosova — actress
- Harry Grodberg — organist
- Yaroslav Baryshev — actor
- Pavel Rudakov, concertina player
- Gelena Velikanova — singer
- Izabella Yurieva — singer
- Tatyana Vasilyeva — actress
- Vera Alentova — actress
- Vadim Abdrashitov — film director
- Anatoly Solodilin — theater actor
- Svetlana Bragarnik — theater & films actress
- Fasil Akhmetov — Tatar composer
- Vyacheslav Mochalov — choirmaster
- Irina Nekrasova — Gypsy actress
- Yuri Lyubimov — actor
- Viktor Smirnov — actor
- Albina Zotova — circus performer, equestrian, illusionist
- Gennady Bortnikov — actor
- Margarita Kypriyanova — theater actress
- Liya Radina — theater actress
- Vladimir Chermyaninov — theater actress
- Raisa Ibragimova — tamer
- Grant Ibragimov — tamer
- Rustam Kaseev — tamer
- Nikolay Pavlenko — tamer
- Vladimir Petrunin — ballet dancer
- Konstantin Raikin — actor
- Zhanna Polovtseva — soloist of the choir
- Pavel Lebeshev —cinematographer
- Aleksandr Knyazhevskiy — cinematographer
- Nikolay Ivanov – actor
1993
January 15,1993- Vadim Zhukov — director of the puppet theater
- Aleksandr Lomonosov — opera singer
- Orzeta Bekuzarova — Ossetian theater actress
- Yuri Gorobets — actor
- Leonarda Brushtain — violinist
- Mikhail Kopelman — violinist
- Lyalya Bobrova — Gypsy actress
- Gennady Piskunov — opera singer
- Olga Volkova — actress
- Tahir Mateulin — actor
- Pyotr Fomenko — director
- Yevgeny Steblov — actor
- Emilia Tsallagova — opera singer
- Leonid Heifets — theater director
- Leonid Psenichnyi — soloist of the song and dance ensemble
- Anatoly Lubimov — oboist
- Ludmila Kravtsova — theater actress
- Valentina Zavorotnyk — theater actress
- Irina Zhurina – opera singer
- Boris Khimichev – actor
- Valentina Tokarskaya — actress
- Ivan Stepanov — opera singer
- Semyon Okoshnikov — opera singer
- Georgy Garanian — musician
- Pavel Slobodkin — composer
- Viktor Ivanov — military conductor, colonel
- Mirian Dgangisherashvili — theater director
- Vladimir Kydryashov — opera singer
- Vladimir Tonha — violinist
- Raisa Dement — Gypsy actress
- Lev Dodin — theatre director
- Mikhail Matveev — actor
- Yuri Evtushenko — guslar
- Ruzhena Sikora — singer
- Iosif Mataev — choreographer
- Vasiliy Shtefutsa — singer
- Andrey Abramenkov — fiddler
- Sergei Solovyov — director
- Gugren Tonunst — actor
- Olga Ostroumova — actress
- Gleb Lapiado — jockey
- Galina Petrinskaya — aerialist
- Evgeny Knyazev — theater actor
- Valentina Morozova — ballet dancer
- Leonid Nikolaev — conductor
- Tatyana Sterling — opera singer
- Vitaliy Tihonov — acrobat
- Tatyana Bochtaryova — soloist of the Cossack choir
1994
January 6, 1994- Pavel Ovsyannikov —military conductor
- Oleg Baglukov — theater actor
- Vladimir Knestikov — theater actor
- Aleksander Sklyarov — accordion player
- Andrey Kozhevnikov — conductor
- Igor Voronov — soloist of the male vocal quartet
- Valeriy Volhovskiy — director of the puppet theater
- Yulia Abakumovskaya — opera singer
- Semyon Aranovich — director of photography
- Aleksey German —director of photography
- Ernst Romanov — actor
- Valentin Feigin — cellist
- Vladimir Matveev — actor
- Boris Kiselyov —theater actor
- Valentina Iltsaranova — Kalmyk singer
- Georgy Butuhanov — theater actor
- Valeriy Ivchenko — actor
- Nina Usatova — actress
- Temur Chkheidze — theater director
- Nikolai Yeremenko Jr. — actor
- Andrey Martynov — actor
- Valery Nosik — actor
- Irina Muravyova — actress
- Eduard Bernadskiy — circus performer
- Aleksandr Popov — circus performer
- Maria Bulova — ballet dancer
- Tatyana Erastova — opera singer
- Eduard Markin — choirmaster
- Mikhail Sales — theater director & actor
- Yuriy Novohizhin — Theater actor
- Ivan Permyakov — soloist of the folk choir
- Vera Chaika — opera singer
- Albert Tarakanov — pianist
- Nikolay Kuchev — actor
- Elena Mishina — actress of the puppet theater
- Vladimir Lubyshkin — soloist of the folk choir
- Gennadi Yukhtin — actor
- Georgy Natanson — director
- Yevgeni Gerasimov — actor
- Pavel Kogan — conductor
- Anatoly Sobolev — conductor
- Raisa Goncharova — soloist of Cossaks choir
- Anatoly Lizvinskiy — soloist of Cossaks choir
- Boris Shcherbakov — actor
- — theater director
- Alexander Galkovsky — violist
- Aleksander Korchagin — violist
- Sergey Pishugin — violist
- Andrey Shishlov — violist
July 6, 1994
- Igor Gavrish — violist
- Natalia Gerasimova — soloist of choir
- Leonid Nevedomsky — actor
- Anatoly Pustokhin — actor
- Lidiya Yatsunuch — opera singer
- Natalya Tenyakova — actress
- Sergey Baikov — opera singer
- Aleksander Vetrov — ballet dancer
- Alla Vasilyeva — violist
- Albert Filozov — actor
- Boris Novikov — actor
- Mikhail Ivanov — circus performer
- Oleksandr Bondurianskyi — pianist
- Vladimir Ivanov — violist
- Mikhail Utkin — violist
- Aleksei Zharkov — actor
- Kapitolina Lazarenko
- Valentina Baranova — opera singer
- Iya Bobrakova — theater actress
- Vladislav Verestnikov — opera singer
- Vadim Derbenyov — director
- Tatyana Klanidchkina — ballet dancer
- Faina Kostina — actress of puppets theater
- Ivan Krivoruchko — actor
- Yevgeny Krylatov — composer
- Aleksander Kuimov — ballet dancer
- Asiyat Kumratova — soloist of choir
- Nadezhda Kuular — singer
- Friedrich Lips — accordionist
- Rimma Markova — actress
- Emilia Moskvitina —harpist
- Viktor Pliner — circus performer
- Igor Shibanov — actor
- Stepan Denisov — tiger and bear trainer
- Elvina Podchernikova-Elvorti — circus performer
- Liya Akhedzhakova — actress
- Yevgeny Bilyauar — circus performer
- Anatoly Vasilyev — actor
- Adam Visitaev — circus performer
- Edison Denisov — composer
- Yuriy Loevskiy — violist
- Viktor Pavlov — actor
- Lyubov Polishchuk — actress
- Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov — actor, director
- Mikhail Rozhkov — balalaika player
- Aleksey Sarach — circus performer
1995
January 27,1995- Yuri Avsharov — actor
- Boris Arzhanov — actor
- Zinire Atnabaeva — theater actress
- Irina Bochkova — violist
- Vladimir Bychkov — ballet dancer
- Boris Vetrov — Theater actress
- Vladimir Vlasenko — singer and bassoonist
- Rustem Gabdullin — contrabass player
- Pyotr Karpov — the operetta artist
- Vyacheslav Kruglov — performer on domra and mandolin
- Roman Ledenev — composer
- Galina Midzyaeva — theater actress
- Natalya Pankova — pianist
- Vladimir Rubin — composer
- Nikolay Simachev — ballet dancer
- Leonid Solovyov — theater actor
- Larisa Cycheva — ballet dancer
- Nina Terentieva — opera singer
- Ekaterina Shavrina — folk-singer
- Anatoly Bazhalkin — Lieutenant Colonel
- Nina Ananiashvili —ballet dancer
- Grigoriy Getsov — theater actor
- Galina Zaitseva — opera singer
- Aleksandr Mezentsev — actor
- Nikolai Prokopovich — actor
- Nina Sharova-Zaspanova — actress
- Mikhail Yanko — actor
- Vladimir Verbitsky — conductor
- Rimma Volkova — opera singer
- Mikhail Elbonov — Buryat actor
- Gennady Zavolikin — accordionist
- Vladislav Novik — choirmeister
- Aleksandr Proshkin — director
- Tatyana Shestakova — ballet dancer
- Gennady Rozhdestvov — ballet dancer
- Rubina Kalantaryan — opera singer
- Elena Kamburova — singer
- Vyacheslav Pomelnikov — accordion player
- Nikolay Peregudov —concertmaster
- Vladimir Barlyaev — theater and dubbing actor, singer
- Vasiliy Bochkaryov — actor
- Pyotr Vorobyov — theater actor
- Ivan Mozgovenko — clarinetist
- Nikolay Mozgovenko — clarinetist
- Yuriy Osherov — актёр
- Nikolay Shishkov — actor
- Venera Ganeeva — opera singer
- Georgy Ivanov — composer
- Ivetta Kiselyova — actress
- Zelimhan Kozaev — the head of the dance ensemble
- Lev Lyubetskiy — actor
- Nikolay Makeev — actor
- Liliya Sabitova — ballet dancer
- Zilya Singatullina — opera singer
- Boris Tevlin — choral conductor
- Dmitri Hvorostovsky — opera singer,
- Yevgeny Akulov — conductor
- Vladimir Nesterov — soloist of the song and dance ensemble of the Northern Fleet
- Oleg Boshnyakovich — pianist
- Yevgeniya Glushenko — actress
- Mairbek Ikaev — theater actress
- Igor Kostolevsky — actor
- Alina Kuznetsova — theater actress
- Savva Kulish — director
- Vyacheslav Semyonov — accordionist
- Evgeny Tashkov — film director, screenwriter and actor
- Lyubov Timofeeva — pianist
- Boris Figotin — composer
- Yuriy Bure-Nebelsen — theater director
- Rafael Klainer — artist-reader, theater director
- Antonina Kuznetsova — theater actress
- Irena Tarasova — actress
- Lyubov Kuzmicheva — soloist of choir, singer
- Aleftina Lapteva — singer, soloist of choir
- Galina Rozhdestvenskaya — conductor, choirmeister
- Anatoly Aleksandrovich — singer
- Galina Bibicheva — opera singer
- Vladimir Burulev — opera singer
- Vladimir Vasilyov — choreographer, ballet director
- Nabi Ibragimov — film & theater actor
- Lev Kuznetsov — opera singer
- Lima Kustabaeva — artistic director of the State Song and Dance Ensemble of the Republic of Tatarstan.
- Avangard Leontiev — theater & film actor
- Grigory Pinyasov — singer
- Yevgeniya Simonova — actress
- Leonid Filatov — theater and film actor, film director, poet, playwright
- Gennady Pasko – painter
1996
January 29,1996- Dolores-Luiza Belaonova — opera singer
- Vyacheslav Dobrynin — composer & singer
- Lyudmila Korshunova — theater actress
- Igor Krutoy — composer
- Avangard Fedotov — clarinetist
- Valery Fokin — theatrical and film director
- Tamara Chernyshova — theatrical actress
- Isaac Schwartz — composer
- Alexander Burdonsky — theater director
- Sergey Nazarko — conductor of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Moscow Air Defense District, lieutenant-colonel
- Pavel Mikhailov — singer
- Vladimir Boikov — conductor
- Yuriy Drozhnyak — theater actor
- Sergey Zakharov — singer
- Vladimir Kelin — opera singer
- Valeriy Kovtun — accordionist
- Aleksey Levitskiy — opera singer
- Valery Leontiev, singer
- Boris Temirkanov, conductor
- Anatoly Adoskin, actor
- Nina Vasilyeva, actress of the operetta theater
- Konstantin Vasilyev, clown and acrobat
- Anatoly Vekshin, clown
- Galina Dyomina — actress
- Elena Zimenkova — singer
- Leonid Zimnenko, opera singer
- Hodache Molodtsova, folk-singer
- Valery Polyansky, conductor
- Konstantin Biragov, actor
- Vyacheslav Vershinin, theatrical actor
- Maidari Zhaphandaev, actor
- Natalya Seleznyova, actress
- Aleksander Usov, theatrical actor
- Mikhail Philippov, actor
- Marta Tsifrinovich, puppeteer
- Aleksander Azarin, master of artistic reading
- Svetlana Bezrodnaya, violinist
- Nadezhda Gracheva, ballet dancer
- Galina Stepanenko, ballet dancer
- Naum Shtarkman, pianist
- Vladimir Yakovlev, actor
- Ninel Konstantinova, theatrical actress
- Natalya Novakova, theater actress
- Olga Ovchinikova, theater actress
- Vladislav Agafonnikov, composer
- Georgy Demurov, theater actor
- Lidiya Anikeeva, actress
- Mikhail Svetin, actor
- Evgeniya Pchyolkina, theater actress
- Leonard Varfolomeev, actor
- Valery Gergiev, conductor
- Nikolai Burlyayev – actor
- Vyacheslav Dobrynin – composer, singer
- Valery Fokin – theatre director
- Igor Krutoy – composer
- Valery Leontiev – singer
- Tamara Miansarova – singer
- Yuriy Norshteyn – director
- Nikolay Serebryakov – director
- 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
- Sergei Makovetsky – 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
- Eduard Artemyev - composer
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
- Svetlana Morgunova – dictor
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
- Yuriy Stoyanov – 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
- Ludmila Senchina – 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
- Mikhail Tanich – poet
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
- Vladimir Ovchinnikov - pianist
- 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
- Svetlana Zakharova – prima-ballerina
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
- Igor Butman – saxophonist
- Fyodor Dobronravov – actor
- Vera Glagoleva – actress and film director
- Andrei Khrzhanovsky – film director
- Denis Matsuev – pianist
- Lev Matyushin - sculptor
- Boris Nevzorov – actor, director
- Irma Nioradze – ballet dancer
2012
- Dmitry Gudanov – ballet dancer
- Konstantin Khabensky – actor
- Chulpan Khamatova – actress
- Bedros Kirkorov – singer
- Hibla Gerzmava – opera singer
- Mariya Aronova – 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
- Anna Odintsova - ballet dancer
2015
- Arkady Arkanov – actor
- Kseniya Rappoport – actress
2016
- Vladimir Nosik – actor
- Yuliya Rutberg – actress
- Alexander Sladkovsky – conductor
- Igor Vernik – actor
2017
- Olga Pogodina – actress
2018
- Viktoria Tereshkina – ballet dancer
- Nikolai Lebedev - actor
- Yekaterina Shipulina - principal dancer
2019
- Mikhail Porechenkov - actor
- Angelina Vovk - presenter
- Igor Nikolayev - composer, singer
2020
- Anna Kovalchuk - actress
- Felix Korobov - conductor
- Aleksei Kravchenko - actor
- Maria Mironova - actress
2021
- Andrey Ilyin - actor
- Galina Tyunina - actress
- Anita Tsoy - singer
- Natalia Vdovina - actress
2022
- Vladislav Vetrov - actor
- Elena Sanayeva - actress
- Alexander Kniazev - cellist, organist
- Vadim Repin - violinist
- Diana Gurtskaya - singer
- Stas Mikhaylov - singer
- Grigory Leps - singer
- Igor Matvienko - composer, producer
2023
- Valery Lednev - painter
- Vladimir Pozner - journalist
2025
- Irina Pegova — actress
2025
- Maksim Averin — actor
- Anna Mikhalkova — actress
- Alexander Oleshko — actor