Vladimir Putin awarded Valery Gergiev the award "For Merits before the Fatherland" of the II degree

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin awarded the Soviet and Russian conductor, the art director and director generals Mariinsky theater Valery Gergiev the award "For Merits before the Fatherland" of the II degree. The decree signed by the head of state about rewarding appeared on the official Internet portal of legal information. On May 2 Valery Gergiev celebrated the 70 anniversary. Since 1977 the conductor started working at the Leningrad state academic theater the opera and the ballet of S. M. Kirov (nowadays Mariinsky theater), and 11 years later held positions of the chief conductor and...