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1 Mar 2016

Winners of Union State Award in Literature and Art announced

MINSK, 1 March (BelTA) - The Patriarch Alexy II monument project and the song audio album "Where Kalina Blossomed" are the winners of the Union State Award in Literature and Art, BelTA informs with reference to the website of the Union State Permanent Committee.

On 25 February the Supreme State Council of the Union State took a decision on the winners of the Union State Award in Literature and Art 2015-2016. These prizes are awarded for works of literature and art that make a great contribution to the strengthening of the relations of brotherhood, friendship and all-round cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation.

The 2016 award has been conferred on Vladimir Fedoseev, the conductor, People's Artist of the USSR, artistic director and chief conductor of the Tchaikovsky Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra for the project “Songs of War Years.”

Among the winners are the team comprising Archpriest Fyodor Povny, the senior priest of the All Saints parish in Minsk, Vladimir Slobodchikov, a sculptor, honored worker of arts of Belarus, and Igor Morozov, an architect, winner of the State Prize of the Republic of Belarus, for the monument to His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II.

The Union State award has been also presented to the team comprising Anatoly Yarmolenko, arts director of the Syabry band, People's Artist of Belarus; Oleg Eliseyev, composer, honored culture worker of the Republic of Belarus; and poet Ivan Yurkin for the song album “Where Kalina Blossomed”.

The awards ceremony will be held at the International Festival of Arts Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk in July this year.

The Union State Award in Art and Literature are awarded every two years. Since 2002, a total of 32 figure of literature and art have been become winners of the Union State Award in Literature and Art.