Lenin Prize


The Lenin Prize was one of the most prestigious awards of the Soviet Union for accomplishments relating to science, literature, arts, architecture, and technology. It was originally created on June 23, 1925, and 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, Vladimir Lenin's birthday.
The Lenin Prize is different from the Lenin Peace Prize, 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. Some persons were awarded both the Lenin Prize and the USSR State Prize.
On April 23, 2018, the head of the Ulyanovsk Oblast, Sergey Morozov, reintroduced the Lenin Prize for achievements in the humanities, literature, and art to coincide with the 150th birthday of Lenin in 2020.

Awardee

Note: This list is incomplete, short, and differs in detail from the complete and much longer Russian list, and is in chronological order.
  • Nikolai Kravkov
  • Aleksandr Chernyshyov
  • Nikolay Demyanov
  • Sergei Sergeyev-Tsensky
  • Andrei Sakharov
  • Giorgi Melikishvili
  • Dmitry Nalivkin
  • Dmitry Okhotsimsky
  • Pyotr Novikov
  • Sergei Prokofiev
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Nikolay Bogolyubov
  • Mikhail Leontovich
  • Mikhail Shumayev
  • Grigory Chukhray
  • Vladimir Veksler
  • Mikhail Sholokhov
  • Aleksandr Bereznyak
  • Sviatoslav Richter
  • Juhan Smuul
  • Aleksei Pogorelov
  • Korney Chukovsky
  • Nikolai Nevsky
  • Volodymyr Marchenko
  • Chinghiz Aitmatov
  • Hanon Izakson
  • Mikhail Kalashnikov
  • Vladimir Kotelnikov, 1964,
  • Innokenty Smoktunovsky
  • Vladimir Igorevich Arnol'd, Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
  • Alexander Sergeevich Davydov
  • Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
  • Alexander Sergeevich Davydov
  • Antonina Fedorovna Prikhot'ko
  • Emmanuel Rashba
  • Vladimir L'vovich Broude
  • Igor Grekhov
  • Mikhail Kim
  • Igor Moiseyev
  • Ilya Lifshitz
  • Mikhail Svetlov
  • Valery Panov
  • Yevgeny Vuchetich
  • Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk
  • Agniya Barto
  • Yuri Ozerov for his work Liberation , 1972
  • Yuri Bondarev writer, for his work Liberation , 1972
  • Cinematographer for his work Liberation , 1972
  • Art Director for his work Liberation , 1972
  • Konstantin Simonov
  • Vladimir Lobashev
  • Mikhail Simonov
  • Gavriil Ilizarov
  • Anatol Zhabotinsky
  • Boris Pavlovich Belousov
  • Otar Taktakishvili
  • Boris Babaian
  • Vladimir Teplyakov
  • Eugene D. Shchukin
  • Kaisyn Kuliev
  • Alykul Osmonov
  • Irena Sedlecká
  • Olga Avilova
  • Yekaterina Alexandrovna Ankinovich
  • Natalia Shpiller

    Lenin Prize winners in Science

Nuclear Physics

1988 year
1958 year
  • Alexander M. Andrianov
  • Lev Andreevich Artsimovich
  • 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
1964 year
  • Aleksandr Emmanuilovich Nudel'man
1966 year
1972 year
  • Vsevolod A. Belyaev
  • Oleg Borisovich Firsov
  • Vadim I. Utkin
1978 year
Vladilen S. Letokhov and Veniamin P. Chebotayev
1982 year
  • Viktor V. Orlov
1984 year
  • Valentin F. Demichev
1984 year
  • Boris B. Kadomtsev
  • Oleg P. Pogutse
  • Vitaliy D. Shafranov

    Mathematics

1976 year
  • Nikolai Krasovski
  • Alexander B. Kurzhanski
  • Yury Osipov
  • A. Subbotin

    Physiology

1965 year
  • Sergei S. Bryukhonenko

    Lenin Prize winners in Technology

Aircraft construction

For his work on Advanced Rocket and Aircraft propulsion systems, Sergei Tumansky was awarded the prize in 1957
For their work on the MiG 25 Heavy Interceptor: