All-Union Conductors Competition
The All-Union Conductors Competition was a competition among musical conductors in the Soviet Union from 1938 to 1988. It took place in Moscow for its first time in 1938 when a set of prizes was awarded by a jury chaired by Samuil Samosud and including Nikolai Myaskovsky, Heinrich Neuhaus, Alexander Goldenweiser, Aleksandr Gauk, Dmitri Kabalevsky amongst other relevant musicians. From 1966 to 1988, the competition took place regularly averaging about one event per five years.
Awarded list
1938: I edition
- Yevgeny Mravinsky
- Natan Rakhlin
- Alexander Melik-Pashayev
- Konstantin Ivanov
- Marcos Paverman
- Kiril Kondrashin
1966: II edition
- Yuri Temirkanov
- Aleksandr [Dmitriyev (conductor)|Aleksandr Dmitriyev]
- Fuat Mansurov
- Yuri Simonov
- Daniel Tyulin
- Maxim Shostakovich
1971: III edition
- Alexander [Lazarev (conductor)|Alexander Lazarev]
- Waldemar Nelson
1976: IV edition
1983: V edition
1988: VI edition
- Alexander Polianichko
- Alexander Polishchuk
- Rashid Skuratov