Lyubimova awarded the director of Zaryadye Park

MOSCOW, April 26Russian Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova presented the medal of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, II degree, to the director of Zaryadye Park Ivan Demidov and the badge «For Contribution to Russian Culture» to the general director in the Culture pavilion at VDNKh Russian National Museum of Music to Mikhail Bryzgalov.
“It so happened historically that one of the most dear and warm missions for us is the presentation of state awards. Already hundreds of outstanding artists, musicians, performers, architects, teachers of creative museums, children's art schools, museum employees stood here to the applause of their colleagues and were awarded high state awards,” the minister said before the award ceremony.

The medal of the Order “For Services to the Fatherland”, II degree, was also awarded to the artist of the Mayakovsky Theater Evgeniy Paramonov.

The Minister of Culture presented medals “For Works in Culture and Art” to the dean of the faculty of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography Andrei Alferov, artists of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater Olga Litvinova and Valery Troshin, actress of the Theater on Malaya Ordynka Svetlana Frolova , art critic Yuri Langleben and others.
The title “Honored Artist of the Russian Federation” was awarded to artists of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater Pavel Vashilin, Artem Volobuev, Youth Theater actor Alexander Taranzhig, musician of the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Yakovlev and others.

President of the Russian Silhouette charity foundation Tatyana Mikhalkova was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

Mikhail Lidsky, associate professor of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and Lyudmila Sidorenko, head of the Central Scientific Library of the All-Russian public organization of the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation, were recognized as Honored Workers of Culture of the Russian Federation.
The artist, head of the painting department of the Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Vladimir Stein, was awarded the honorary title “Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.”
Director of the Russian Ethnographic Museum Yulia Kupina received gratitude from the Russian government.