Meritorious Artist

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Meritorious Artist (sometimes translated as Deserved Artist or Honorary Artist) is a 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.

The term is confusingly used to translate two different Russian language titles: "заслуженный артист" (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 special titles: Meritorious Architect, Meritorious Writer, Meritorious Poet.