Putin awarded Mashkov the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree

MOSCOW, December 4 Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Vladimir Mashkov, actor and artistic director of the Moscow theater Oleg Tabakov, with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree, corresponding The decree is posted on the official legal information portal.
«For merits in the development of national culture and art, many years of fruitful creative activity, award: Order «For Services to the Fatherland, IV degree, to Vladimir Lvovich Mashkov — artistic director of the state budgetary cultural institution of Moscow «Moscow Theater of Oleg Tabakov», — the text says decree
Mashkov was born on November 27, 1963 in Tula. In 1990, he graduated from Oleg Tabakov’s course at the Moscow Art Theater School. From 1989 to 1990, Mashkov played at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. He starred in almost 60 films, including “Limita”, “Moscow Nights”, “Crew”, “Moving Up” and “Challenge”. Since 2018, after the death of People's Artist of the USSR Oleg Tabakov, Mashkov became the artistic director of the Oleg Tabakov Theater and the Oleg Tabakov Theater School. Since December 4, 2023, Mashkov has been the chairman of the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation.

Director Artem Mikhalkov was also awarded the Medal “For Work in Culture and Art,” and theater actor Vyacheslav Spesivtsev was awarded the Order “For Merit in Culture and Art.” «, follows from the text of the decree.