What is the alternate translation for the honorary title of which Vladimir Basov and Inna Churikova were both recipients?
People's Artist of the USSR People's Artist of the USSR (Russian: Наро́дный арти́ст СССР , "Narodný artist SSSR"), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union.
Doktor nauk Doktor nauk (Russian and Ukrainian: До́ктор нау́к, Bulgarian: Доктор на науките, Belarusian: Доктар навук, literally translated as "Doctor of Sciences") is a higher doctoral degree which may be earned after the Candidate of Sciences (the latter is informally regarded in Russia and many other post-Soviet states as equivalent to the PhD obtained in countries in which the PhD is not the highest academic degree).