Head of Presidential Staff Sergey Ivanov, right, at the ceremony of awarding prominent people of culture, scientists, servicemen and workers with state awards in the Yekaterininsky Hall of the Kremlin. from left: president of the Baikal University of Economics and Law Mikhail Vinokurov, awarded with an Order of Merits for the Fatherland III degree; artistic director of the St Petersburg Academic Ballet Boris Eifman, awarded with an Order of Merits for the Fatherland II degree; People's Artist of the USSR Iosif Kobzon, awarded with an Order of Merits for the Fatherland I degree; Corporal of Interior troops SWAT Artyom Katunkin, awarded with Gold Star of Hero of Russia; space test pilots Alexander Samokutyayev and Andrei Borisenkov (Star of Hero of Russia.
