For persons who "particularly distinguished themselves in the development of the Soviet theater, music and cinema."
Even in tsarist Russia, there were honorary titles for creative workers of state theaters - "Honored Artist of the Imperial Theaters" and "Soloist of his imperial majesty". After the revolution, they were abolished and a new one was introduced - "People's Artist of the Republic." The former soloist of His Imperial Majesty Fyodor Chaliapin became the first People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1918. The Union republics followed the example of Russia and introduced the corresponding titles. a rigid hierarchy and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee established the stages of recognition of acting creativity.
The first People's Artists of the USSR were the founders and leading actors of the Moscow Art Theater - Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Ivan Moskvin and Vasily Kachalov, as well as the singer of the Bolshoi Antonina Nezhdanova.
Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky (real name - Alekseev; January 5 (17), 1863, Moscow - August 7, 1938, Moscow) - Russian theater director, actor and teacher, theater reformer. The creator of the famous acting system, which has been very popular in Russia and in the world for 100 years. People's Artist of the USSR (1936)
Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (December 11 (23), 1858, Ozurgeti, Kutaisi province - April 25, 1943, Moscow) - Russian and Soviet theater director, teacher, playwright, writer, theater critic and theater figure; one of the founders of the Moscow Art Theatre. People's Artist of the USSR (1936).
Antonina Vasilievna Nezhdanova June 4 (16), 1873, p. Krivaya Balka, near Odessa - June 26, 1950, Moscow) - Russian opera singer (lyric-coloratura soprano), teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1936). Doctor of Arts (1944)
Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov, real name Shverubovich (1875-1948) - Russian and Soviet theater actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1936)
People's Artist of the USSR could only become artists who already had the title of Honored, then People's Artist of the Autonomous, then Union Republic. According to an unspoken rule, they became honored artists upon reaching 40 years old, and people's artists of the USSR - 60. People's artists were awarded a diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and a badge. They were supposed to increased salary, 50% discount on payment for housing and communal services, a company car and a state dacha, additional living space, and by special decision - treatment at the 4th Main Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Health, and subsequently a pension of union and republican significance. During the tour, people's artists of the USSR were entitled to a sleeping car and a suite in a hotel.
Ivan Mikhailovich Moskvin (June 6 (18), 1874, Moscow - February 16, 1946, Moscow) - Russian Soviet actor, theater director, master of the artistic word (reader). People's Artist of the USSR (1936).
It was easier for members of the CPSU to get the title. However, the scale of talent and genuine people's love more than once defeated party leaders - People's Artists of the USSR F. Ranevskaya and A. Raikin, I. Moiseev and M. Plisetskaya, G. Tovstonogov and M. Babanova were non-party.
... The penultimate was the singer Alla Pugacheva. The last - the actor of the Moscow "Lenkom" Oleg Yankovsky. They say that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed the decree literally an hour before he announced to the people that the USSR no longer exists.
Ekaterina Pavlovna Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya (1874-1951) - Russian and Soviet theater and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1936).
Maria Mikhailovna Blumenthal-Tamarina (July 16, 1859, St. Petersburg - October 16, 1938, Moscow) - Russian theater and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1936).
Boris Vasilievich Shchukin (1894-1939) - Soviet theater and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1936)
Maria Ivanovna Litvinenko-Wolgemut (1892 - 1966) - Soviet Ukrainian opera singer (lyric-dramatic soprano), actress, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1936)
Panas (Athanasius) Karpovich Saksagansky (real name - Tobilevich; 1859-1940) - Ukrainian and Soviet actor, theater director, playwright and teacher of the school of Mark Kropyvnytsky, coryphaeus of the Ukrainian domestic theater. People's Artist of the USSR (1936)
Kulyash (Gulbahram) Zhasynovna Baiseitova (kaz. Kulash Zhasynkyzy Baiseitova (January 12, 1912, Verny, Turkestan Governor General, Russian empire- June 6, 1957, Moscow, USSR) - an outstanding Soviet opera singer (lyric-coloratura soprano), dramatic actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1936)
Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (April 1, 1883, Plakhino village, Ryazan province - July 8, 1946, Berlin) - Soviet Russian composer, choral conductor, choirmaster, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1937), Major General (1943). Author of the music for the Anthem of the USSR, and the Anthem set to the same melody Russian Federation.
Alla Konstantinovna Tarasova (1898-1973) - Soviet theater and film actress. Laureate of five Stalin Prizes (1941, 1946 - twice, 1947, 1949). Hero Socialist Labor(1973), People's Artist of the USSR (1937)
Nikolai Pavlovich Khmelev (July 28 (August 10), 1901, Sormovo - November 1, 1945, Moscow) - Soviet actor, director. People's Artist of the USSR (1937). Laureate of three Stalin Prizes of the first degree (1941, 1942, 1946 - posthumously)
Mikhail Mikhailovich Tarkhanov (real name - Moskvin) (September 7 (19), 1877 - 1948) - Russian and Soviet theater and film actor, director, teacher, doctor of art history (1939). People's Artist of the USSR (1937).
Nadezhda Andreevna Obukhova (1886-1961) - Russian Soviet opera singer (mezzo-soprano). Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1943). People's Artist of the USSR (1937)
Olga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhova (September 9 (21), 1868, Glazov - March 22, 1959, Moscow) - Russian and Soviet actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1937). Laureate of the Stalin Prize (1943). Wife of A.P. Chekhov.
Alexander Alekseevich Ostuzhev (real name - Pozharov; 1874 - 1953) - Russian and Soviet actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1937)
Vera Nikolaevna Pashennaya (1887-1962) - Russian and Soviet theater and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1937)
Prov Mikhailovich Sadovsky (junior) (1874-1947) - Russian and Soviet actor, theater director. People's Artist of the USSR (1937)
Alexandra Alexandrovna Yablochkina (1866-1964) - Russian and Soviet theater actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1937), laureate of the Stalin Prize (1943), three times holder of the Order of Lenin
Reinhold Moritsevich Gliere (name at birth - Reinhold Ernest Gliere) (11.1.1875 (12.30.1874) - 23.6.1956) - Soviet composer, conductor, teacher, musical public figure. People's Artist of the USSR (1938)
Solomon Mikhailovich Mikhoels (Yiddish שלמה מיכאָעלס, Shloyme Mikhoels; real name Vovsi; 1890-1948) - Soviet Jewish theater actor and director, teacher, public and political figure. People's Artist of the USSR (1939). Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1946). Killed by the MGB. The murder is disguised as a traffic accident.
Haykanush Baghdasarovna (Anna Borisovna) Danielyan (arm. Հայկանուշ Դանիյելյան; 1893-1958) was an Armenian Soviet singer (lyric-coloratura soprano). People's Artist of the USSR (1939)
Ivan Semyonovich Kozlovsky (March 11 (24), 1900, Maryanovka village, Kyiv province - December 21, 1993, Moscow) - Soviet opera and chamber singer (lyric tenor), director. People's Artist of the USSR (1940).
Evdokia Dmitrievna Turchaninova (1870-1963) - Russian and Soviet theater actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1943).
Ruben Nikolaevich Simonov (Arm. Ռուբեն Նիկողայոսի Սիմոնյանց; 1899-1968) - Soviet Russian actor, theater and film director, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1946).
Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev (literary pseudonym - Igor Glebov; 1884 - 1949) - Russian Soviet composer, musicologist, music critic, teacher. Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1943), People's Artist of the USSR (1946)
Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov (1903-1966) - an outstanding Soviet theater and film actor.
People's Artist of the USSR (1947). Winner of the Lenin Prize (1964) and five Stalin Prizes (1941, 1946, 1950, 1951 - twice).
Grigory Vasilyevich Alexandrov (real name Mormonenko; 1903-1983), Soviet Russian film director, actor, screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1948)
Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky (June 30, 1894, Moscow - April 5, 1977, Moscow) - Soviet Russian actor and director, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1948).
Nikolai Pavlovich Okhlopkov (May 2, 1900, Irkutsk - January 8, 1967, Moscow) - Russian Soviet theater and film actor, director, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1948). Laureate of six Stalin Prizes (1941, 1947, 1949 - twice, 1951 - twice).
Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin (1893-1953) - Soviet Russian film director, actor, screenwriter, artist, teacher. Laureate of three Stalin Prizes (1941, 1947, 1951). People's Artist of the USSR (1948).
Ivan Alexandrovich Pyryev (November 17, 1901 - February 7, 1968) - Soviet Russian film director, actor, screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1948). Six-time winner of the Stalin Prize (1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1948, 1951).
Olga Nikolaevna Androvskaya (real name - Schultz; 1898-1975) - Soviet theater and film actress, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1948). Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1952). Aunt Alexei Batalov
Alexei Nikolaevich Gribov (1902-1977) - Soviet theater and film actor, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1948), Hero of Socialist Labor (1972), winner of four Stalin Prizes (1942, 1946, 1951, 1952)
Boris Nikolaevich Livanov (1904 - 1972) - Russian Soviet actor and director. People's Artist of the USSR (1948). Laureate of five Stalin Prizes (1941, 1942, 1947, 1949, 1950) and the State Prize of the USSR (1970).
4. Ladynina Marina Alekseevna - Soviet theater and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of five Stalin Prizes.
5. Govorov Vladimir Leonidovich - Soviet military leader, army general, hero Soviet Union.
6.Dovator Lev Mikhailovich - Soviet military leader, major general, Hero of the Soviet Union. Talalikhin Viktor Vasilyevich - military pilot, deputy squadron commander of the 177th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 6th Fighter Aviation Corps of the Air Defense Forces of the country, junior lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union. Panfilov Ivan Vasilievich - Soviet military leader, major general, Hero of the Soviet Union.
7. Nikulin Yuri Vladimirovich - Soviet and Russian actor and clown. People's Artist of the USSR (1973). Hero of Socialist Labor (1990). Member of the Great Patriotic War. Member of the CPSU (b).
8. Gilyarovsky Vladimir Alekseevich - (December 8 (November 26), 1855, an estate in the Vologda province - October 1, 1935, Moscow) - writer, journalist, everyday writer of Moscow.
9. Shukshin Vasily Makarovich - an outstanding Russian Soviet writer, film director, actor, screenwriter.
10. Fadeev Alexander Alexandrovich - Russian Soviet writer and public figure. Brigadier Commissioner. Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the first degree. Member of the RCP(b) since 1918. (Roman Young Guard)
11. Durov Vladimir Leonidovich - Russian trainer and circus artist. Honored Artist of the Republic. Brother of Anatoly Leonidovich Durov.
12. Rybalko Pavel Semyonovich - an outstanding Soviet military leader, marshal armored forces, commander of tank and combined arms armies, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
13. Vavilov Sergey Ivanovich - Soviet physicist, founder scientific school physical optics in the USSR, academician and president of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Laureate of four Stalin Prizes. The younger brother of N. I. Vavilov, a Soviet geneticist.
January 1860, July 2, 1904) - Russian writer, playwright, doctor by profession. Honorary Academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the category of fine literature. He is a universally recognized classic of world literature. His plays, especially The Cherry Orchard, have been staged in many theaters around the world for a hundred years. One of the most famous playwrights in the world.”]
14. Chekhov Anton Pavlovich (17
26. Fotieva Lidia Alexandrovna - a member of the Bolshevik Party since 1904. In 1918-1930 - secretary of the Council of People's Commissars and the STO, at the same time in 1918-1924 - personal secretary of V. I. Lenin)
