State Prize of the USSR
The State Prize of the USSR ( Russian Государственная премия СССР / Gossudarstwennaja premija SSSR) was next to the Lenin Prize the highest civilian award in the Soviet Union . It was created in 1966 as the successor to the Stalin Prize awarded from 1941 to 1954 to honor outstanding achievements in the scientific, literary, artistic or musical field. The prize was often awarded for individual works by an artist.
Winners of the Stalin Prize had the opportunity to exchange their medals and award certificates for those of the new state prize. In Soviet documents and literature from the 1960s to 1980s, the Stalin Prize was also retrospectively referred to as the State Prize and, accordingly, its winners as State Prize winners .
The state prize was awarded to up to 100 people annually. In the Union Republics , state prizes were also awarded by the respective Union republic.
The State Prize of the USSR was awarded until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Then the State Prize of the Russian Federation was donated in Russia .
Carrier (selection)
- 1946
- 1948
- Vladimir Pugachev (mathematician)
- Boris Andreev (actor)
- 1950
- Boris Andreev (actor)
- 1951
- Gersch Budker (nuclear physicist)
- Boris Kogan (physicist)
- 1967
- Nikolai Astrow (tank designer)
- Irakli Andronikow (writer, for the book Lermontow. Investigations and Findings )
- Andrei Petrov (composer)
- Otar Taktakishvili (composer, for oratorio In Rustaveli's Footsteps )
- Galina Woltschek (actress)
- 1968
- Tschingis Aitmatow (writer)
- Georgi Swiridow (composer)
- 1969
- Oleg Yefremov (actor, theater director)
- Nikolai Ryschkow (politician)
- Vladimir Vinogradov (doctor, posthumously)
- 1970
- Nikolai Dolleschal (physicist, for the construction and commissioning of units 1 and 2 of the Belojarsk nuclear power plant )
- M. Jolle (physicist, for investigations of the unstable high-temperature plasma in a magnetic field and a method for stabilization)
- I. Newjaschski with J. Ado (physicist, for development and commissioning of the Proton Synchrotron in Serpukhov)
- Zurab Tsereteli (sculptor)
- 1971
- Ludwig Faddejew (physicist and mathematician)
- Alexander Twardowski (poet)
- 1974
- Wassil Bykau (Belarusian writer, for the novellas The Obelisk and Perseverance Until Morning! )
- Äbdischämil Nurpeissow (writer)
- Alexander Schuk (architect, for the Leningrad-Pulkowo airport complex )
- 1975
- Nikolai Kuchto (designer, for the floating gas turbine power plant Severnoje sijanije / Northern Lights )
- Alexandra Pachmutowa (song composer)
- Wassili Margelow (Army General of the Airborne Forces)
- 1976
- Mikhail Alexejew (writer)
- Dmitri Anossov (mathematician)
- Yevgeny Leonov (actor)
- Soviet-German collective for the development of the high pressure polyethylene process ( Polymir 50 )
- 1977
- Sergei Alexejew (lawyer, later also a politician)
- Natalja Bessmertnowa (ballerina)
- Leonid Leonow (writer, for screenplay The Flight of Mister McKinley )
- Lev Lyulev (anti-aircraft missile designer)
- Eldar Ryazanov (director, for the film Irony of Fate )
- Anatoli Romaschin (theater director and actor)
- Chief Information and Propaganda Editor of the Central Television of the USSR (for the main news program Vremya )
- 1978
- Mher Mkrtschjan (Armenian actor, for his role in the film Mimino )
- Andrei Vosnesensky (poet)
- 1979
- Robert Roschdestwensky (poet)
- Nikolai Ryschkow (politician)
- 1980
- Georgi Swiridow (composer)
- Viktor Israelyan (diplomat)
- Sofiko Tschiaureli (actress)
- Dmitri Kabalewski (composer)
- Henno Sepmann (architect, for the sailing sports center in Pirita )
- 1981
- Alexei Leonow ( cosmonaut )
- Vladimir Menshov (director, for film Moscow won't believe the tears )
- Irina Muravyova (actress, for her role in the film Moscow will not believe her tears )
- Raisa Ryazanova (actress, for her role in the film Moscow will not believe her tears )
- Yevgeny Swerdlow (biochemist, for work on deciphering the structure of DNA polymerases )
- 1982
- Kir Bulytschow (writer, for film scenarios)
- Oles Honchar (Ukrainian writer)
- Saima Karimowa (geologist)
- Ilja Oschanin ( Sinologist )
- Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor, composer and pianist)
- Creator collective of the feature film The Electronic Doppelganger
- 1983
- Nikolai Markowitsch Emanuel (chemist)
- Michail Schatrow (writer, for the play This is how we will win )
- Alexander Tschakowski (writer)
- Ivan Vinogradov (mathematician)
- 1984
- Sergei Alexejew (children's and youth writer)
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko (poet, for the poem mother and the neutron bomb )
- Development collective of VEB Carl-Zeiss-Jena for the multispectral camera MKF 6
- 1985
- Wiktar Daschuk for the documentary film The War has no female face
- Anatoly Resnikow (animation director)
- Boris Shcherbakov (actor)
- 1986
- Walentin Berlinski (founder of the Borodin Quartet in Moscow )
- 1987
- Natalja Durowa (circus performer and writer)
- Vladimir Vysotsky (singer and actor, posthumously )
- 1988
- Wladimir Demichow (medical doctor, transplant pioneer )
- Alexei German (film director)
- Lidija Ginsburg (literary scholar and writer)
- Dawid Samoilov (poet)
- 1989
- Bella Achmadulina (poet, for the anthology Der Garten )
- Oleg Atkow (doctor and cosmonaut)
- Nikolai Bassow (physicist)
- Arseni Tarkowski (poet, posthumous )
- 1990
- Jeleasar Meletinski (philologist, for the encyclopedia Myths of the Peoples of the World )
- 1991
- Vladimir Dashkevich (composer and music theorist)
- Bulat Okudschawa (singer, poet and writer)