Putin awards People's Artist title to Bashkortostan singer Askar Abdrazakov

Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded the honorary title “People's Artist of the Russian Federation” to Askar Abdrazakov, a vocalist at the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theatre, according to a decree reported by the Bashinform news agency.

The same decree awarded the title “Honoured Worker of Local Self-Government of the Russian Federation” to Miniyar Mannanov, head of the Yanurusovo rural settlement in Ishimbay district. Yevgeny Yefremov, shop chief at the Beloretsk branch of the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network's Radio and Television Transmitting Centre of the Republic of Bashkortostan, was awarded the Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, second class.

Earlier, Bashkortostan head Radiy Khabirov had written congratulatory wishes to the Abdrazakov brothers.