Putin awarded actress Freindlikh with the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I degree

Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded People's Artist of the USSR Alisa Freindlikh with the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", First Class. The decree was posted on Sunday, December 8, on the website of the official publication of legal acts.

"For her great contribution to the development of national culture and art, many years of fruitful work to award the Order "For Services to the Fatherland" I degree Freindlich Alisa Brunovna - an artist of the federal state budgetary cultural institution "Russian State Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater named after G. A. Tovstonogov, the city of St. Petersburg," - stated in the decree.

Putin also awarded Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director General of the State Hermitage and President of the Union of Museums of Russia, with the Order "For Services to the Fatherland" of the first degree.

People's Artist of the USSR Alisa Freindlikh celebrates her 90th birthday on December 8. Svetlana Nemolyaeva, People's Artist of the RSFSR, and Mikhail Boyarsky, Soviet and Russian actor of theater, cinema, voice-over and dubbing, singer and musician, spoke to Izvestia about the actress' talent.