Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko was also awarded, posthumously, for his collected works.

      Russian Minister of Culture, Vladimir Medinsky, held the ceremony of conferring Russian government awards in the field of culture.

      Among the awarded figures of Russian culture there is the general director of the Tretyakov Gallery, Zelphira Tregulova, for the exhibition project “Valentin Serov: To the 150th Anniversary since his Birth”. The exhibition was visited by 485 thousand people.

      Film director Stanislav Govorukhin was awarded for the feature film “The End of the Beautiful Era”. Among the award winners there is also stage director Rudolf Furmanov (for founding the first Russian non-state repertory theater “St. Petersburg Theater" Russian Entreprise” named after Andrei Mironov), director of the Film Actor Theatre, Suren Shaumyan (for establishing the Academy of Cinematographic and Theatrical Art), acting rector of St. Petersburg Repin Institute of Painting, Semyon Mikhailovsky (for a series of exhibitions of contemporary Russian art in Russia and abroad), writer Alexei Varlamov (for the book "Shukshin"), and others.