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Biography
Leonid Osipovich Utyosov or Utesov (Russian: Леони́д О́сипович Утёсов); real name Lazar (Leyzer) Iosifovich Vaysbeyn or Weissbein (Russian: Ла́зарь (Ле́йзер) Ио́сифович Вайсбе́йн) (21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1895, Odessa – 9 March 1982, Moscow), was a famous Soviet jazz singer and comic actor of Jewish origin, who became the first pop singer to be awarded the prestigious title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1965.
Awards & recognition
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour · 1980
- Medal "Veteran of Labour" · 1976
- Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" · 1975
- Order of the October Revolution · 1975
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" · 1970
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- Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" · 1965
- People's Artist of the USSR · 1965
- People's Artist of the RSFSR · 1958
- Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad" · 1957
- Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic · 1947
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" · 1947
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" · 1946
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" · 1945
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour · 1945
- Merited Artist of the RSFSR · 1942
