The winners of the Master Award have been announced. The award is granted by the Guild of Literary Translation Masters to the best translators of belles-letters into Russian.

Soviet and Russian film director, the People's Artist of the USSR, Georgi Daneliya, aged 88, died on April 4, 2019.

On March 19, 2019, director and screenwriter Marlen Khutsiev, aged 93, died at a Moscow hospital.

The Bolshoi Theater greets the People's Artist of the USSR Vladimir Atlantov on his 80th anniversary.

The renowned Soviet and Russian actor Sergey Yursky died after a serious illness on February 8, 2019. The People's Artist of Russia was 83 years old.

On January 21, 2019, the popular film actor and director Rodion Nakhapetov celebrated his 75th anniversary.

January 20, 2019, marked the 85th anniversary of the author of music for the popular Russian films "Sherlock Holmes", "Winter Cherry", "A Dog's Heart" and nearly a hundred others.

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.