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/ref> at the forum of the Russian Youth Chamber. In 1997 it was registered in the Russian Authors' Society. It is awarded in categories "Performing Arts", "Artistic Creativity", "Literary Creativity", as well as "For the Preservation of Folk Art Traditions", "For Novelty and Originality in Creativity", "Overcoming. Beyond the Limit of Possible","Growing Hopes","State and public figure for rendering effective assistance to disabled people and their social organizations". The organizers of the award are:

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, All-Russian Society of Invalids.

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, Alexander Lomakin-Rumyantsev,

Igor Luchenok Igor Mikhailovich Luchenok (Belarusian: Iгар Міхайлавіч Лучанок, Ihar Michajlavič Lučanok, Russian: Игорь Михайлович Лученок; 6 August 1938 — 12 November 2018) was a Belarusian composer, People's Arti ...

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, Alexander Neumyvakin, Vladimir Platonov, Oleg Smolin,

Zurab Tsereteli Zurab Konstantinovich Tsereteli ( ka, ზურაბ კონსტანტინეს ძე წერეთელი, tr'';'' 4 January 1934 – 22 April 2025) was a Georgian painter, sculptor and architect known for large-scale and at ti ...

Mikhail Shvydkoy Mikhail Yefimovich Shvydkoy (; born September 5, 1948) is a Soviet and Russian theater critic, drama, social and political activist. Laureate of the State Prize of Russia. The artistic director of the Moscow theater musical, supervisor of the Facu ...

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are on the Board of Trustees.

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