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Putin Awards Mariinsky’s Gergiev Soviet-Era Hero of Labor
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President Vladimir Putin awarded Valery Gergiev, director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, a Hero of Labor award, a Soviet-era distinction restored by the Russian leader this year.
Putin handed awards to Gergiev and four others, including a neurosurgeon, at a ceremony in the Konstantinovsky Palace outside St. Petersburg, the Kremlin said today on its website.