The ranking was compiled by the Russian Forbes for the first time.

The famous children’s playwright and screenwriter Eduard Uspensky died in his summer residence in the Village of Puchkovo, Moscow Region.

Anna Sokolova, the leading actress of the Prokopyevsk Drama Theater, died right on stage on August 4.

The grave of the famous film director is located next to those of Oleg Tabakov and Leonid Bronevy.

People's Artist of the USSR, conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, aged 87, died on June 16, 2018.

President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Alexander Sergeev has received the French Order of Academic Palms.

The People's Artist of the RSFSR, Nina Doroshina, aged 83, died on the 21st of April 2018.

Film director Andrei Zvyagintsev and producer Alexander Rodnyansky together with the Paramount studio will shoot a series in Russian.

The concert was performed by the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) under the conductorship of Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda, a friend of Dmitry Hvorostovsky.

Writers Alexey Salnikov and Anna Starobinets have made it into the final contest of the literary award "National Bestseller".