The State Prize of the Russian Federation (Russian: Государственная Премия Российской Федерации, Gosudarstvennaya Premiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii; official translation in Russia: Russian Federation National Award) is a state honorary prize established in 1992 as the successor for the USSR State Prize following the breakup of the Soviet Union. In 2004 the rules for selection of laureates and the status of the award were significantly changed making them closer to such awards as the Nobel Prize or the Soviet Lenin Prize
Every year seven prizes are awarded:
Three prizes in science and technology (according to newspaper Kommersant there was a fourth 2008 State Prize for Science and Technology awarded by a special decree of President Dmitri Medvedev but the name of the winner is kept secret because of the confidential character of the work );
Three prizes in literature and the arts;
One prize for humanitarian work (established in 2005 ).
Only three prizes for humanitarian work have been awarded so far: to Patriarch Alexius II, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (2005), to Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2006) and to French President Jacques Chirac (2007).
The award consists of a cash prize amounting to 5 million Russian rubles (approximately $200,000), a medal and a certificate. If a number of coauthors equally contributed to a prize-winning work the prize is divided among no more than three authors.
The prize is presented by the President of Russia in a ceremony held in Grand Kremlin Palace which is located at the Moscow Kremlin On Russia Day which occurs on 12 June and is broadcast by the major channels in the country.
The medal for the State Prize was developed by the artist Yevgeny Ukhnalyov (Евгений Ухналёв). The design is based on the Coat of arms of Russia. It shows a gold double-headed eagle with a scepter and a Globus cruciger with a red shield showing St. George with the dragon. The eagle is crowned by two small and one large crown and put on a silver wreath consisted of palm and laurel branches joined by a red ribbon. The design was adopted in 2005.
Complete listings are available on Russian Wikipedia, For example: Laureates of the State Prize of the Russian Federation for 1992, over 60 names of recipients.
Literature and the arts
Sofia Gubaidulina for "Offertorium"
Rodion Shchedrin for "The sealed angel"
Literature and the arts
Fazil Iskander
Literature and the arts
Mikhail Gasparov
Science and Technology
Svyatoslav Gabuda
Literature and the arts
Slava Zaitsev
Science and Technology
Valentin Panteleimonovich Smirnov
Fyodor Bunkin, Vitaly Konov, Vadim Fedorov, Nikolay Generalov, Gennady Kozlov, Yuri Raizer for discovering of laser burning and continuous optical discharge.
Anatoly Savin
Literature and the arts
Andrey Logvin
Literature and the arts
Yelena Panova - for her role in Border. Taiga Romance
Literature and the arts
Vatslav Mikhalsky - for his novel The Spring in Carthage
Science and Technology
Alexander Sergeevitch Gasparov - for development and practical implementation of endoscopic methods in gynecology
Science and Technology
Alexei Fridman, V. Afanasiev, S. Dodonov, Anatolii Zasov, Valerij Polyachenko, Olga Silchenko, Evgenii Snezhkin, Oleg Khoruzhii - for prediction and discovery of new structures in spiral galaxies.
Science and Technology
Alexander Kvasnikov, Valery Kolinko, Arkady Vershkin - creation of optics-electronic complex for control of the outer space
Vyachelav Molodin and Natalia Polosmak for discovering of the Pazyryk culture
Ludvig Faddeev for development of Mathematical Physics
Literature and the arts
Bella Akhmadulina - for poetry;
Leonid Krasnochyev and Ninel Kuzmina for restoration the Assumption Church in Veliky Novgorod;
Anna Netrebko - for her opera works;
Humanitarian work
Patriarch Alexius II for his enlightening and peacemaking activities
Science and Technology
Igor Gorynin for development of new construction materials;
Alexander Skrinsky, director of the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics for development in High Energy Physics;
Literature and the arts
Aleksey Batalov for cinema works;
Nurlan Khanetov, Leonid Lyubavsky, Renat Kharis for developing of national epic traditions;
Mikhail Pletnyov for his performances and innovations in music culture;
Humanitarian work
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - for his humanitarian work
Science and Technology
Yury Vasiliyevich Gulyayev and Vladislav Pustovoyt for developments in acousto-electronics and acousto-optics;
Sergey Nikitich Kovalyov and Igor Spassky (both from the Rubin Design Bureau), David Pashayev for development of Nuclear submarines;
Alexander Nikolayevich Konovalov, director of Burdenko Central neurosurgical institute for new methods neurosurgery;
Literature and the arts
Nikolay Borodacheyov, Irina Vasina, Vladimir Dmitriev from Gosfilmofond
Olga Borodina for her contributions to the world musical art;
Svetlana Zakharova for her ballet works.
Humanitarian work
Jacques Chirac - President of France (1995–2007)
Science and Technology
Vladimir Arnold - Russian mathematician;
Alexey Khokhlov - Polymer scientist;
Andrey Zaliznyak - Russian linguist.
According to newspaper Kommersant there was fourth State Prize for Science and Technology awarded by a special decree of President Dmitri Medvedev but the name of the winner is kept secret because of the confidential character of the work.
Literature and the arts
Alisa Freindlich - actress of the Tovstonogov Theater in Saint Petersburg;
Andrey Kovalchuk - Russian sculptor;
Researchers from the Museum of Battle of Kulikovo.
Yevgeny Kaspersky - anti-virus software inventor.
Yuri Oganessian for the opening of the new field of stability of superheavy elements.
Felix Mitrofanov for scientific study and discovery of large deposits of platinum-palladium ore in the Kola Peninsula;
Rem Petrov and Rahim Khaitov for outstanding achievements in scientific and practical development of the domestic immunology.
Anatoly Derevyanko for outstanding discoveries and works in the field of ancient history in Eurasia and the formation of anatomically modern humans.
Alexander Sokurov
Aleksandra Pakhmutova
Eric Galimov
Lev Dodin
Sergey Lukyanov
Valery Gergiev
Viktor Zakharchenko
