Vladislav Alexandrovich Chernushenko (; born January 14, 1936) is a

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and

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n conductor,

People's Artist of the USSR People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union. The term is confusingly used to translate two Russian language titles: Народный арти ...

and State Prize laureate. He was educated at the , where his teacher was , and later moved to the Leningrad Conservatory where he was under the guidance of Ilya Musin,

Yevgeny Mravinsky Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Mravinsky () (19 January 1988) was a Soviet and Russian conductor, pianist, and music pedagogue; he was a professor at Leningrad State Conservatory. Biography Mravinsky was born in Saint Petersburg. The soprano Yevgen ...

, and Nikolay Rabinovich. In 1974 he became principal conductor of the Saint Petersburg State Academic Capella. From 1979 to 2002 he was rector of the

Saint Petersburg Conservatory The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory () (formerly known as the Petrograd Conservatory and Leningrad Conservatory) is a school of music in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty member ...

Awards and honours

* Winner of the international competition in

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(1970) * Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1978) * Winner of the international competition in

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(1979) * Laureate of the Glinka State Prize (1981) * People's Artist of the RSFSR (1986) *

(1991) *

Order of Friendship The Order of Friendship (, ') is a state decoration of the Russian Federation established by Boris Yeltsin by presidential decree 442 of 2 March 1994 to reward Russian and foreign nationals whose work, deeds and efforts have been aimed at ...

(1996) * Winner of the French Academy of Arts Award (1999) * Laureate of the

State Prize of the Russian Federation The State Prize of the Russian Federation, officially translated in Russia as Russian Federation National Award, is a state honorary prize established in 1992 following the breakup of the Soviet Union. In 2004 the rules for selection of laureates ...

in the field of literature and art (1994) * Silver medal of the Holy Grand Duke

Alexander Nevsky Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky (; ; monastic name: ''Aleksiy''; 13 May 1221 – 14 November 1263) was Prince of Novgorod (1236–1240; 1241–1256; 1258–1259), Grand Prince of Kiev (1249–1263), and Grand Prince of Vladimir (1252–1263). ...

(2004) *

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" The Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" () is a state decoration of the Russian Federation. It was instituted on 2 March 1994 by Presidential Decree 442. Until the re-establishment of the Order of St. Andrew in 1998, it was the highest order of ...

III and IV degrees (2019, 2005) *

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, II degree (2006) * Honorary Citizen of Saint Petersburg (2016)

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1936 births People's Artists of the USSR State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates Living people 21st-century Russian conductors (music) Russian male conductors (music) 21st-century Russian male musicians {{Russia-conductor-stub