Meritorious Artist (Russian: Заслуженный артист, Zasluzhenny artist), also translated as Merited Artist, Deserved Artist or Distinguished Artist or Honorary Artist) is an honorary title in the Soviet Union, Union republics, and Autonomous republics, also in some other Eastern bloc states (and communist states in general), as well as in a number of post-Soviet states, modelled after the title of the Meritorious Artist of the USSR or RSFSR.
The term is confusingly used to translate two different Russian language titles: "заслуженный артист" (literally Meritorious Artiste, but better rendered as Meritorious Actor, Meritorious Dancer, etc., awarded in performing arts) and "заслуженный художник" (awarded in some visual arts: painting drawing, and photography). Both titles are awarded for exceptional achievements in the corresponding arts.
Some other arts gave rise to special titles: Meritorious Architect, Meritorious Writer, Meritorious Poet.
In modern Russia, the term Meritorious Actor applied to performing arts, and the title Meritorious Worker of Arts is the translation of the Russian honorary title zasluzhenny deyatel iskusstv is applied to non-performing people, including visual artists, composers, etc.
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