Leonid Utyosov

Acting

Born: 1895-03-21
Died: 1982-03-09
From: Odessa, Odesskiy uyezd, Khersonskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.2

Also Known As

Леонид УтесовЛ. УтесовЛ. Утёсов

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.

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Awards & Nominations15 won · 0 nominated

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Order of the Red Banner of Labour

1980
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Medal "Veteran of Labour"

1976
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Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

1975
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Order of the October Revolution

1975
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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
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People's Artist of the USSR

1965
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People's Artist of the RSFSR

1958
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Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"

1957
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Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

1947
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Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

1947
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Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

1946
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Order of the Red Banner of Labour

1945
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Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

1945
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Merited Artist of the RSFSR

1942