Harry Bardin
World-known cartoonist

Boris Grachevski
Film director and scriptwriter,
Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation, 
the author of Eralash humoristic film journal

Levon Malkhasyan
Honored Art Worker of the Republic of Armenia,
knight of Movses Khorenatsi Order, Honorable Citizen of Yerevan

Viktor Shenderovich
Soviet and Russian Writer, satirist,
TV and Radio host, essayist 

Alexander Gordon
Russian TV and Radio host, journalist,
artist, film director

Yevgeny Yevtushenko
 Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist,
screenwriter, actor, editor, and film director

Robert Amirkhanyan
 World-known Armenian composer and song writer,
head of the Union of Composers and Musicologists of Armenia

Mikhail Piotrovsky
Director of the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg 

Silva Kaputikyan
20^th century prominent  Armenian poet, writer,
academician and public activist

Vitaly Tretyakov
General Director of independent NIG publishing group,
political observer of Russian newspaper

Igor Guberman
Russian writer, poet 

Ara Gevorgyan
Honorable artist of the Republic of Armenia,
composer, conductor

Mark Rozovsky
Art Director of  “U Nikitskikh Vorot” Theatre

Vasiliy Lanovoy
People’s Artist of the USSR

Kim Bakshi
Writer, dramatist, specialist of Armenian manuscripts 

Vladimir Spivakov
People’s Artist of the USSR

Yevgeniy Knyazev
Rector of B. Shukin Theatre Institute
at Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre

Sergey Yursky
People’s Artist of the Russian Federation

Mikhail Shvidkoy
Head of the Russian Federal Agency
on Culture and Cinematography 

Vladimir Tatosov
People’s Artist of the Russian Federation

Zori Balayan
Novelist, Honored Art Worker of Armenia

Karen Shakhnazarov
Soviet and Russian-Armenian filmmaker,
producer and screenwriter, General director of the Mosfilm studios

Mark Zakharov
People’s Artist of the USSR,
Director of Moscow's Lenkom Theatre