Lenin Prize
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
, presented to individuals for accomplishments relating to science
Science
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, literature
Literature
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, arts
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, architecture
Architecture
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, and technology
Technology
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. It was created on June 23, 1925 and was awarded until 1934. During the period from 1935 to 1956, the Lenin Prize was not awarded, being replaced largely by the Stalin Prize. On August 15, 1956, it was reestablished, and continued to be awarded on every even-numbered year until 1990. The award ceremony was April 22, (Lenin's birthday).
The Lenin Prize is different from the Lenin Peace Prize
Lenin Peace Prize
The International Lenin Peace Prize was the Soviet Union's equivalent to the Nobel Peace Prize, named in honor of Vladimir Lenin. It was awarded by a panel appointed by the Soviet government, to notable individuals whom the panel indicated had "strengthened peace among peoples"...
, which was awarded to foreign citizens rather than to citizens of the Soviet Union, for their contributions to the "peace cause." Also, the Lenin Prize should not be confused with the Stalin Prize or the later USSR State Prize
USSR State Prize
The USSR State Prize was the Soviet Union's state honour. It was established on September 9, 1966. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the prize was followed up by the State Prize of the Russian Federation....
. Some persons were awarded both the Lenin Prize and the USSR State Prize.
Awarded
Note: This list is incomplete, short, and differs in detail from the complete and much longer Russian list. (See Russian Wikipedia.)- Nikolai DemyanovNikolai DemyanovNikolay Yakovlevich Demyanov , also known as Demjanov and Demjanow, was a Soviet/Russian organic chemist, member of the USSR Academy of Sciences , internationally known for the Demjanov rearrangement organic reaction and other discoveries....
(1930, chemistry) - Alexander ChernyshovAlexander ChernyshovAleksandr Alekseyevich Chernyshov was an Russian electrical engineer. He graduated from Saint Petersburg Polytechnical Institute in 1907, and had worked there until the end of his life. His research consisted of radio engineering and high-voltage techniques. He won the Lenin Prize in...
(1930, radio engineering) - Sergei Sergeyev-TsenskySergei Sergeyev-TsenskySergei Nikolayevich Sergeyev-Tsensky , was a prolific Russian and Soviet writer and academician...
(1955, writer) - Dimitri NalivkinDimitri NalivkinDimitri Vasilievich Nalivkin was an geologist from the Soviet Union. He was primarily interested in stratigraphy, but was also responsible in large part for mapping the geology of the USSR....
(1957, geology) - Sergei ProkofievSergei ProkofievSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
(1957, music, posthumously, for his Symphony No. 7Symphony No. 7 (Prokofiev)Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 7 in C-sharp minor, Op.131, was completed in 1952, the year before his death. It is his last symphony.-Background:...
) - Pyotr Novikov (1957, mathematics, for proving the undecidability of the word problem for groupsWord problem for groupsIn mathematics, especially in the area of abstract algebra known as combinatorial group theory, the word problem for a finitely generated group G is the algorithmic problem of deciding whether two words in the generators represent the same element...
) - Nikolay BogolyubovNikolay BogolyubovNikolay Nikolaevich Bogolyubov was a Russian and Ukrainian Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist known for a significant contribution to quantum field theory, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, and to the theory of dynamical systems; a recipient of the Dirac Prize...
(Николай Николаевич Боголюбов, 1958, physics) - Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
(1958, music composition) - Grigori ChukhraiGrigori ChukhraiGrigori Naumovich Chukhrai was a prominent Soviet film director and screenwriter. He is the father of director Pavel Chukhrai.-Career:He was born in Melitopol in the Zaporizhia Oblast of Ukraine...
(1959, contribution to the arts- Ballad of a SoldierBallad of a SoldierBallad of a Soldier , is a 1959 Soviet film directed by Grigori Chukhrai and starring Vladimir Ivashov and Zhanna Prokhorenko. While set during World War II, Ballad of a Soldier is not primarily a war film...
) - Vladimir VekslerVladimir VekslerVladimir Iosifovich Veksler was a prominent Soviet experimental physicist....
(1959, physics) - Mikhail Sholokhov (1960, literature, for And Quiet Flows the DonAnd Quiet Flows the DonAnd Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don is the first part of the great Don epic Tikhiy Don , written by Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. It originally appeared in serialized form between 1928 and 1940...
) - Alexander BereznyakAlexander Yakovlevich BereznyakAlexander Yakovlevich Bereznyak was a Soviet aircraft and missile designer. He was the Chief Designer of MKB "Raduga", from March 1957.He was born on 29 December, 1912 in Boyarkino, Ozerski District, Moscow Region. Alexander Bereznyak was a Soviet aircraft designer, a doctor of technical science...
(Александр Яковлевич Березняк, 1961 for P-15P-15 TermitThe P-15 Termit is an anti-ship missile developed by the Soviet Union's Raduga design bureau in the 1950s. Its GRAU designation was 4K40, its NATO reporting name was Styx or SS-N-2. In Russian service today it also seems to be called the Rubezh...
missile) - Juhan SmuulJuhan SmuulJuhan Smuul was an Estonian writer. Until 1954 he used the given name Johannes Schmuul.-Career:...
(1961, literature) - Korney ChukovskyKorney ChukovskyKorney Ivanovich Chukovsky was one of the most popular children's poets in the Russian language. His poems, Doctor Aybolit , The Giant Roach , The Crocodile , and Wash'em'clean have been favourites with many generations of Russophone children...
(Корней Чуковский, 1962, for his book, Mastery of Nekrasov) - Aleksei PogorelovAleksei PogorelovAleksei Vasil'evich Pogorelov , was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician. He was most famous for his contributions to convex and differential geometry...
(Алексей Васильевич Погорелов, 1962, mathematics) - Chinghiz AitmatovChinghiz AitmatovChyngyz Aitmatov was a Soviet and Kyrgyz author who wrote in both Russian and Kyrgyz. He was the best known figure in Kyrgyzstan's literature.- Life :...
(Чингиз Айтматов, 1963, literature) - Irena SedleckaIrena SedleckáIrena Sedlecká is a Czech sculptor and Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. After training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, she was awarded the Lenin Prize for sculpture before fleeing the communist regime in 1967...
(Sculpture) - Hanon IzaksonHanon IzaksonHanon Ilyich Izakson was a Soviet Russian designer of farm machines who was born in Novo-Bereslav, Kherson Oblast....
(Ханон Ильич Изаксон, 1964, farm machinery) - Mikhail KalashnikovMikhail KalashnikovLieutenant General Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov is a Russian small arms designer, most famous for designing the AK-47 assault rifle, the AKM and the AK-74.-Early life:...
(Михаи́л Тимофе́евич Кала́шников, 1964, AK-47AK-47The AK-47 is a selective-fire, gas-operated 7.62×39mm assault rifle, first developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is officially known as Avtomat Kalashnikova . It is also known as a Kalashnikov, an "AK", or in Russian slang, Kalash.Design work on the AK-47 began in the last year...
assault rifle) - Innokenty SmoktunovskyInnokenty SmoktunovskyInnokentiy Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky was a Soviet actor acclaimed as the "king of Soviet actors". He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1974 and the Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990....
(Иннокентий Смоктуновский, 1965, acting) - Vladimir Igorevich Arnol'd, Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (Влади́мир И́горевич Арно́льд, Ленинская премия, 1965, mathematics)
- Alexei Alexeyevich AbrikosovAlexei Alexeyevich AbrikosovAlexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov is a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003.- Biography :...
(Алексей Алексеевич Абрикосов, 1966, physics) - Victor Dmitrievich Verbitskiy (Виктор Дмитриевич Вербицкий, 1966, inventor)
- Igor MoiseyevIgor MoiseyevIgor Alexandrovich Moiseyev has been widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of character dance, a dance style similar to folk dance but with more professionalism and theatrics....
(Игорь Моисеев, 1967, dance) - Mikhail SvetlovMikhail Arkadyevich SvetlovMikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov , born Scheinkman , was a Soviet Russian poet.-Biography:Svetlov was born into a poor Jewish family. He has been published since 1917. A member of Komsomol since 1919, Svetlov was sent to the First Congress of Proletarian Writers in Moscow in 1920 and took part in the...
(Михаил Светлов, 1967, poetry, posthumously, for the book Verses of the Last Years) - Valery PanovValery Panov-Early career :Valery Panov was born in 1938 in Vitebsk, Belarus. He studied in the choreographic school named for Agripinna Vaganova in Saint Petersburg. Today it’s The Academy of Russian Ballet...
(1969, dance) - Yevgeny VuchetichYevgeny VuchetichYevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich was a prominent Soviet sculptor and artist. He is known for his heroic monuments, often of allegoric style.He was born in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire...
(Евгений (Eugene) Вучетич, 1970, sculpture) - Agniya BartoAgniya BartoAgniya Lvovna Barto, , was a Soviet Jewish poet and children's writer.-Biography:Agniya was born Getel Leybovna Volova to the jewish family of a Moscow veterinarian named Lev Nikolaevich Volov. She studied at a ballet school. She liked poetry very much and soon started to write her own, trying to...
(Агния Львовна Барто, 1972, poetry?) - Konstantin SimonovKonstantin SimonovKonstantin Mikhailovich Simonov was a Russian/Soviet author, known especially as a war poet.-Early years:He was born in Petrograd. His mother was born Princess Obolenskaya, of a Rurikid family. His father, an officer in the Tsar's army, left Russia after the Revolution in 1917. He died in Poland...
(Константин Симонов, 1974, poetry) - Okhotsimsky Dmitrii Evgenievich (1957, space science)
- Otar TaktakishviliOtar TaktakishviliOtar Taktakishvili was a Georgian composer, teacher, conductor, and writer of music.Otar Taktakishvili graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatory, while still been a student he composed the official anthem of the Georgian SSR. By 1949 he became a Professor of the Tbilisi Conservatory and the ...
(1982, music composition) - Boris BabaianBoris BabaianBoris Artashesovich Babayan is an Armenian supercomputer architect, notable as the pioneering creator of supercomputers in the Soviet Union....
(Борис Арташеcович Бабаян, 1987 for Elbrus-2 supercomputer) - Kaisyn KulievQaysin QuliKaisyn Shuvayevich Kuliev aka Kaisyn Kuliev, or Qaysin Quli was a Balkar poet. He wrote in the Karachay-Balkar language and his poems are widely translated mostly to USSR languages, such as Russian, Ossetian and to many others languages all around the world.-Biography:Kaisyn Kuliev was born on...
( Кулиев Кайсын Шуваевич, 1990, Man.Bird.Tree. Poetry. Post-mortem) - Vladimir TeplyakovVladimir TeplyakovVladimir Aleksandrovich Teplyakov was a Russian physicist best known for his work on particle accelerators. He, working with I.M. Kapchinsky, invented the principle of the radio frequency quadrupole , which revolutionized the acceleration of low energy ion beams.-Biography:V.A...
(1988, for the development of the RFQ)
Nuclear Physics
1988 year- Rudolf M. Muradyan
- For a series of innovative works “New quantum number – color and establishment of dynamical regularities in the quark structure of elementary particles and atomic nuclei” published during 1965 – 1977.
Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy
1958 year- Alexander M. Andrianov
- Lev Andreevich ArtsimovichLev ArtsimovichLev Andreevich Artsimovich was a Soviet physicist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences , member of the Presidium of the Soviet Academy of Sciences , and Hero of Socialist Labor .- Academic research :Artsimovich worked on the...
(Лев Андреевич Арцимович) - Olga A. Bazilevskaya
- Stanislav I. Braginskiy
- Igor' N. Golovin
- Mikhail A. Leontovich
- Stepan Yu. Lukyanov
- Samuil M. Osovets
- Vasiliy I. Sinitsin
- Nikolay V. Filippov
- Natan A. Yavlinskiy
- For research of powerful pulse discharges in gas for production of the high-temperature plasma, published in years.
1964 year
- Aleksandr Emmanuilovich Nudel'man (Александр Эммануилович Нудельман)
- For a series of innovative automatic cannons.
1972 year
- Vsevolod A. Belyaev
- Oleg Borisovich FirsovOleg FirsovOleg Borisovich Firsov – was a Russian Soviet physicist-theorist known for his work on atomic interaction. He was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1972 for a series of work titled "Elementary processes and non-elastic scattering at nuclear collisions"....
(Олег Борисович Фирсов)
- For a series of work "Elementary processes and non-elastic scattering at nuclear collisions”.
- Vadim I. Utkin
1982 year
- Viktor V. Orlov
- For the work on fast neutron reactors.
1984 year
- Valentin F. Demichev
- For production of special chemical compounds and development of conditions of their application.
1984 year
- Boris B. Kadomtsev
- Oleg P. Pogutse
- Vitaliy D. Shafranov
- For a series of work "The theory of thermonuclear toroidal plasma".
Mathematics
1976 year- Nikolai KrasovskiNikolai Nikolaevich KrasovskyNikolay Nikolayevich Krasovsky is a prominent Russian mathematician who works in the mathematical theory of control, the theory of dynamical systems, and the theory of differential games...
- Alexander B. Kurzhanski
- Yury OsipovYury OsipovYury Sergeevich Osipov is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is a full member and the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences.- Biography :...
- A. Subbotin
Aircraft construction
For their work on the MiG 25 Heavy Interceptor:- R A Belyakov, General designer
- N Z Matyuk, chief project engineer
- I S Silayev, Gorkii aircraft factory director (later Minister of Aircraft Industry)
- F Shukhov, engine project chief
- F Volkov, radar project chief
- A V Minayev, Deputy Minister of Aircraft Industry who headed task force 'Det 63' that was sent to Egypt in 1971.