State Prizes of the Soviet Republics
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The State Prizes of the Soviet Republics were each republic counterpart to the USSR State Prize
. Each republic granted several different prizes, generally named after writers or artists from the republic, as well as a blanket Komsomol
prize for young artists.
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....
. Each republic granted several different prizes, generally named after writers or artists from the republic, as well as a blanket Komsomol
Komsomol
The Communist Union of Youth , usually known as Komsomol , was the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Komsomol in its earliest form was established in urban centers in 1918. During the early years, it was a Russian organization, known as the Russian Communist Union of...
prize for young artists.
Republics
- Russian SFSR
- Maxim GorkyMaxim GorkyAlexei Maximovich Peshkov , primarily known as Maxim Gorky , was a Russian and Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist.-Early years:...
(literature) - Konstantin StanislavskiKonstantin StanislavskiConstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski , was a Russian actor and theatre director. Building on the directorially-unified aesthetic and ensemble playing of the Meiningen company and the naturalistic staging of Antoine and the independent theatre movement, Stanislavski organized his realistic...
(theatre) - Mikhail GlinkaMikhail GlinkaMikhail Ivanovich Glinka , was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music...
(music) - Vasili BazhenovVasili BazhenovVasily Ivanovich Bazhenov was a Russian neoclassical architect, graphic artist, architectural theorist and educator...
(architecture) - Ilya Repin
- Brothers VasilyevVasilyev brothersGeorgi Vasilyev and Sergei Vasilyev , usually credited as Vasilyev brothers were two namesake Russian Soviet film directors and screenwriters...
(cinema) - Nadezhda Krupskaya
- Maxim Gorky
- Ukrainian SSRUkrainian SSRThe Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or in short, the Ukrainian SSR was a sovereign Soviet Socialist state and one of the fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union lasting from its inception in 1922 to the breakup in 1991...
- Taras ShevchenkoTaras ShevchenkoTaras Hryhorovych Shevchenko -Life:Born into a serf family of Hryhoriy Ivanovych Shevchenko and Kateryna Yakymivna Shevchenko in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire Shevchenko was orphaned at the age of eleven...
- Pavlo TychynaPavlo TychynaPavlo Tychyna was a major Ukrainian poet, interpreter, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman.-Life:Born in Pisky in 1891, he was baptized on January 27 that mistakenly was considered his birth date until recently. His father, Hryhoriy Timofiyovych Tychyna, was a village deacon and...
- Maksym RylskyMaksym RylskyMaksym Tadeyovych Rylsky was a Ukrainian poet.He began writing as a representative of 'pure art' doctrine, during the Stalinist years adopted the official doctrine of 'socialist realism' . In 1937 he was involved in rewriting the libretto of Mykola Lysenko's opera, Taras Bulba...
- Lesya UkrainkaLesya UkrainkaLarysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka better known under her literary pseudonym Lesya Ukrainka , was one of Ukraine's best-known poets and writers and the foremost woman writer in Ukrainian literature. She also was a political, civil, and female activist....
- Nikolai OstrovskyNikolai OstrovskyNikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky was a Soviet socialist realist writer, who published his works during the Stalin era...
- Taras Shevchenko
- Belarusian SSR
- Yanka KupalaYanka KupalaYanka Kupala — was the pen name of Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich , a Belarusian poet and writer. Kupala is considered one of the greatest Belarusian-language writers of the 20th century.-Early life:...
(literature) - Yakub KolasYakub KolasYakub Kolas , real name Kanstantsin Mitskievich was a Belarusian writer, People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR , and member and vice-president of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.In his works, Yakub Kolas was known for his sympathy towards the ordinary Belarusian peasantry...
- Panteleymon Lepeshinsky
- Yanka Kupala
- Uzbek SSRUzbek SSRThe Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Uzbek SSR for short, was one of the republics of the Soviet Union since its creation in 1924...
- Alisher Navoiy
- Kazakh SSRKazakh SSRThe Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Kazakh SSR for short, was one of republics that made up the Soviet Union.At in area, it was the second largest constituent republic in the USSR, after the Russian SFSR. Its capital was Alma-Ata . Today it is the independent state of...
- Abay Qunanbayuli (literature)
- Kurmangazy (music)
- Kulyash BaiseitovaKulyash BaiseitovaKulyash Baiseitova was a Soviet Kazakh opera singer.She was one of the 13 original recipients of the award of People's Artist of the USSR in 1936....
- Georgian SSR
- Shota RustaveliShota RustaveliShota Rustaveli was a Georgian poet of the 12th century, and one of the greatest contributors to Georgian literature. He is author of "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" , the Georgian national epic poem....
- Shota Rustaveli
- Azerbaijan SSRAzerbaijan SSRThe Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Azerbaijan SSR for short, was one of the republics that made up the former Soviet Union....
:- Mirza Akhundov (literature)
- Uzeyir HajibeyovUzeyir HajibeyovUzeyir bey Abdul Hussein oglu Hajibeyov was an Azerbaijani and Soviet composer, conductor, publicist, playwright, teacher, translator, and social figure from Azerbaijan. He is recognized as the father of Azerbaijani classical music and opera...
(music)
- Lithuanian SSRLithuanian SSRThe Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Lithuanian SSR, was one of the republics that made up the former Soviet Union...
- ŽemaitėŽemaiteŽemaitė - a pen name of Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė; in Bukantė near Plungė — 7 December 1921 in Marijampolė) was a Lithuanian writer. Born to impoverished gentry, she became one of the major participants in the Lithuanian National Revival...
(literature) - Pranas Zibertas
- Žemaitė
- Moldavian SSRMoldavian SSRThe Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic , commonly abbreviated to Moldavian SSR or MSSR, was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union...
- Boris Glavan
- Latvian SSRLatvian SSRThe Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Latvian SSR for short, was one of the republics that made up the Soviet Union. Established on 21 July 1940 as a puppet state during World War II in the territory of the previously independent Republic of Latvia after it had been occupied by...
- Eduards VeidenbaumsEduards VeidenbaumsEduards Veidenbaums was a Latvian poet and translator. Most of his poetry was published posthumously.- Biography :...
(literature) - Mirdza ĶempeMirdza KempeMirdza Ķempe was a noted Latvian poet and translator.Mirdza Ķempe was born into a working class family in Liepāja, Latvia. From 1914 to 1926 she lived in Tosmare at Ģen. Baloža st., 47; later she and her family lived at Bernatu st., 41 in Liepāja. In 1915-1919 she studied at the 1st Liepāja...
- Eduards Veidenbaums
- Kyrgyz SSR
- Toktogul Satylganov
- Tajik SSRTajik SSRThe Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Tajik SSR for short, was one of the 15 republics that made up the Soviet Union. Located in Central Asia, the Tajik SSR was created on 5 December 1929 as a national entity for the Tajik people within the Soviet Union...
- RudakiRudakiAbu Abdollah Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki , also written as Rudagi , was a Persian poet, and is regarded as the first great literary genius of the Modern Persian, who composed poems in the "New Persian" alphabet. Rudaki is considered as a founder of Persian classical literature.He was born in 858 in...
- Rudaki
- Armenian SSRArmenian SSRThe Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic The Armenian Soviet...
- Aram Khatchaturian (music)
- A. Danielyan
- Turkmen SSRTurkmen SSRThe Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Turkmen SSR for short, was one of republics of the Soviet Union in Central Asia. It was initially established on 7 August 1921 as the Turkmen Oblast of the Turkestan ASSR. On 13 May 1925 it was transformed into Turkmen SSR and became a...
- Makhtumkuli
- Estonian SSR
- Juhan SmuulJuhan SmuulJuhan Smuul was an Estonian writer. Until 1954 he used the given name Johannes Schmuul.-Career:...
(literature)
- Juhan Smuul
ASSRs
The Autonomous Republics (ASSRs) also had their state prizes; a sample:- Abkhaz ASSR
- Darmit Gulia
- Bashkir ASSR
- Salawat YulayevSalawat YulayevSalawat Yulayev , Shaytan-Kudeevsky volost, Ufa province, Orenburg Governorate, Russia – 26 September 1800, Paldiski) is a Bashkir national hero who participated in Pugachev's rebellion.- Biography :...
- Salawat Yulayev
- Chuvash ASSR
- Konstantin Ivanov
- Dagestan ASSR
- Suleiman StalskySuleiman StalskySuleiman Stalsky was a Lezgin poet from Daghestan....
- Suleiman Stalsky
- Kalmyk ASSR
- Oka GorodovikovOka GorodovikovColonel General Oka Ivanovich Gorodovikov was a Soviet cavalry general of Kalmyk ethnicity, a Hero of the Soviet Union. He served as Inspector-General of Cavalry from 1938 to 1941, and as Deputy Commander of Cavalry from 1943 until his retirement in 1947....
- Oka Gorodovikov
- Karakalpak ASSR
- BerdakhBerdakhBerdakh, pseudonym of Berdimurat , was a Karakalpak poet. He was the most famous representative of Karakalpak classical literature. He was the son of a poor fisherman and was born in Karakalpakstan, in a distant village what is now Muynak. His mother died when he was 10 years old...
- Berdakh
- Karelian ASSRKarelian ASSRThe Karelian ASSR was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, with the capital in Petrozavodsk.The Karelian ASSR was formed as a part of the Russian SFSR by the Resolution of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of June 27, 1923 and by the Decree of...
- Arhippa PerttunenArhippa PerttunenArhippa Perttunen was a Karelian folk singer.Around 1834, he met Elias Lönnrot, and was one of his main sources for the Kalevala.The State Prize of the Karelian ASSR was named after him....
- Arhippa Perttunen
- Komi ASSR
- Ivan KuratovIvan KuratovIvan Alekseevich Kuratov was a Komi poet and linguist, seen as renovator of Komi literature.Kuratov began writing verses at age 13, while studying in a seminary, and was engaged in poetry until his death. The most fruitful period of his life were the years spent in the town of Ust-Sysolsk, where...
- Viktor SavinViktor SavinViktor Savin was a Komi poet....
- Ivan Kuratov
- Mari ASSR
- Sergei ChavainSergei ChavainSergei Chavain, also spelled Čavajn was a Mari poet and playwright, born Sergei Grigorievich Grigoriev ....
- Sergei Chavain
- Tatar ASSR
- Ğabdulla TuqayGabdulla TuqayĞabdulla Tuqay was a Tatar poet, a classic of the Tatar literature, a critic and a publisher. Tuqay is often referred as the founder of the modern Tatar literature and the modern Tatar literary language, which replaced Old Tatar language in literature....
- Ğabdulla Tuqay
- Yakut ASSR
- Platon OyunskyPlaton OyunskyPlaton Oyunsky was a Soviet Yakut statesman, writer and translator, seen as one of the founders of modern Yakut literature. He tookpart in the creation of the national written language, in the cultural building...
- Platon Oyunsky
See also
- Awards and decorations of the Soviet UnionAwards and decorations of the Soviet UnionAwards and decorations of the Soviet Union are decorations from the Former Soviet Union that recognised achievements and personal accomplishments, both military and civilian. Some of the awards, decorations and orders were discontinued after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, while others still...