Balasanian wrote the first Tajik opera – The Uprising at Vosse[1] (first staged in 1939).
It was debuted in Moscow in 1941 as part of a 10-day exhibition of Tajik art.
[2] Sergey Balasanian was awarded the Stalin Prize (1949) and five orders.
In 1957 he was decorated as People's Artist of the Tajik SSR, and in 1963 as Honored Art Worker of the Russian SFSR.
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