Merited Artist

Merited Artist, Honored Artist, etc., is an honorary title in the Soviet Union, Russian Federation, Union Republics, and autonomous republics, also in some other Eastern Bloc states, as well as in a number of post-Soviet states. Specifically, the term may refer to:


 * Merited Artist (Albania)
 * Merited Artist of the Russian Federation
 * Merited Artist of Ukraine
 * Merited Artist of Vietnam
 * Honored Artist of Armenia
 * Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR
 * Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR
 * Honored Artist of the RSFSR
 * Honored Artist of the RSFSR (visual arts) (Comment: In Russian language, the word artist is a "false friend": it is translated both as "artist" (художник) and "actor" (артист).)
 * Honored artist of Uzbekistan