The USSR State Prize (Russian: Госуда́рственная пре́мия СССР, Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor. 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.
The State Stalin Prize (Государственная Сталинская премия, Gosudarstvennaya Stalinskaya premiya), usually called the Stalin Prize, existed from 1941 to 1954 – some sources give an incorrect termination date of 1952. It essentially played the same role; therefore upon the establishment of the USSR State Prize, the diplomas and badges of the recipients of Stalin Prize were changed to that of USSR State Prize.
In 1944 and 1945, the last two years of the Second World War the award ceremonies for the Stalin Prize were not held. Instead, in 1946 the ceremony was held twice: in January for the works created in 1943–1944 and in June for the works of 1945.
USSR State Prize of 1st, 2nd and 3rd degrees was awarded annually to individuals in the fields of science, mathematics, literature, arts, and architecture to honor the most prominent achievements which either advanced the Soviet Union or the cause of socialism. Often the prize was awarded to specific works rather than to individuals.
Each constituent Soviet republic (SSR) and autonomous republic (ASSR) also had a State Prize (resp. Stalin Prize).
The Stalin Prize was an honor different from the Stalin Peace Prize. The latter was created on 21 December 1949 and was usually awarded to foreign recipients rather than to Soviet citizens.
It should also not be confused with the Lenin Prize.
Adela Rosenthal: mathematics
Abraham Alikhanov: physics
Alexander Evseevich Braunstein: biochemistry
Nikolai Burdenko: neurosurgery
Mikhail Gurevich: aeronautical engineering
Sergey Ilyushin: aeronautical engineering
Aleksandr Khinchin: mathematics
Andrey Kolmogorov: mathematics
Semyon Lavochkin: aeronautical engineering
Mikhail Loginov: artillery design
Trofim Lysenko: biology
Dmitri Maksutov: astronomic optics
Vladimir Obruchev: geology
Evgeny Paton: electrical welding
Nikolai Polikarpov: aeronautical engineering
Nikolay Semyonov: chemical physics
Sergei Sobolev: mathematics
Alexey Shchusev: architecture
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev: aeronautical engineering
Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov: mathematics
Semyon Volfkovich: chemistry
Nikolai Ponomarev: astronomic optics
Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov: mathematics
Nicholas Astrov: tank engineer
Ivan Grave: artillery, for his work Ballistics of Semiclosed Space
Sergey Ilyushin: aeronautical engineering
Mstislav Keldysh: mathematics
Isaak Kikoin: physics
Mikhail Koshkin: tank engineer
Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam: physics
Sergei Rubinstein: psychology
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shmuk: biochemistry
Alexander Vishnevsky: surgeon
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev: aeronautical engineering
Nikolay Zelinsky work on organic chemistry
Ivan Bardin
Ivan Plotnikov: inventor of artificial leather kirza
Igor Kurchatov: physicist (1st degree; with a group of Ioffe Institute)
Nicholas Astrov: tank engineer
Zinaida Vissarionovna Ermol'eva: biochemistry
Sergey Ilyushin: aeronautical engineering
Ivan Knunyants: Chemistry
Feodosy Krasovsky: astronomy
Semyon Lavochkin: aeronautical engineering
Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov: aeronautical engineering
Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov: physics
Vladimir Vernadsky: mineralogy and geochemistry
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich: 2nd degree, physics – for works on combustion and detonation
Mustafa Topchubashov : general surgeon
Laureates for this year were officially announced in 1946.
Laureates for this year were officially announced in 1946
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov: physics
Viktor Hambardzumyan: astrophysics
Sergey Ilyushin: aeronautical engineering
Eugen Kapp: music composition
Mstislav Keldysh: mathematics
Lev Landau: physics
Semyon Lavochkin: aeronautical engineering
Lazar Lyusternik: mathematics
Dmitri Maksutov: 1st degree, astronomic optics
Anatoly Ivanovich Malcev: 2nd degree, for the research on Lie groups
Vasily Sergeevich Nemchinov: mathematics
Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina: mathematics
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev: aeronautical engineering
Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov: physics
Leo Silber: immunology
Yevgeny Tarle: historian
Boris Zbarsky, biochemistry
Nikolay Zelinsky work on chemistry of proteins
Konstantin Petrzhak and Georgy Flyorov: physics (2nd degree; for discovery of spontaneous fission)
Mark Veyngerov for developing of Express Optic-Acoustical Gas Analysis.
Valentin Felixovich Voyno-Yasenetsky: medicine
Anatoly Savin, technology
Manfred von Ardenne: for a table-top electron microscope
Georgy Beriev: aeronautical engineering
Nikolay Bogolyubov: mathematics
Grigory Eisenberg
Mikhail Gurevich: aeronautical engineering
Sergey Ilyushin: aeronautical engineering
Artem Mikoyan: aeronautical engineering
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev: aeronautical engineering
Nikolai Bernstein: neurophysiology
Alexander Gapeev: geology
Mikhail Gurevich: aeronautical engineering
Artem Mikoyan: aeronautical engineering
Semyon Lavochkin: aeronautical engineering
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev: aeronautical engineering
Mikhail Gurevich: aeronautical engineering
Mikhail Kalashnikov: engineering
Leonid Kantorovich: mathematics
Boris Kurchatov: radiochemistry
Artem Mikoyan: for aircraft design
Nikolaus Riehl: first class, for contributions to the Soviet atomic bomb project
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (Яков Борисович Зельдович): 1st degree, physics – for special works (actually, for nuclear technology)
Anatoly Savin
Viktor Hambardzumyan: astrophysics
Sergey Ilyushin: aeronautical engineering
Eugen Kapp: music composition
Vladimir Obruchev: geology
Aleksei Pogorelov: mathematics
Dmitri Skobeltsyn: physics
Ilia Vekua: mathematics
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich: Musician
Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter : Musician
Peter Adolf Thiessen: 1st degree, for uranium enrichment techniques
Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov: physics
Boris Vannikov: administration of Soviet nuclear program
Viktor Vinogradov: philology
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich: 1st degree, physics – for special works
Heinz Barwich: 2nd degree, physicis
Gustav Ludwig Hertz: 2nd degree, physicis
Yuri Krutkov: 2nd degree, physicis
Ding Ling: 2nd degree, literature for "The Sun Shines Over Sanggan River"
Anatoly Savin
Ashot Satian: Vocal-Symphony Poem "Songs of Ararat Valley"(1950)
Viktor Arkadyevich Bely: music composition
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov: physics
Sergey Ilyushin: aeronautical engineering
Eugen Kapp: music composition
Feodosy Krasovsky
Marie Podvalová: music performance
Leon Theremin: science for inventing eavesdropping equipment
Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov: physics
Ivan Efremov, for Taphonomy and Geological Chronology
Yury Nikolaevich Savin: 2nd degree, for the monograph Stress Concentration around Holes
Il'ya Il'ich Chernyaev: 1st degree Chemistry
Boris K. Schischkin and two others; for the Flora of the USSR
Lev Landau, Naum Meiman, Isaak Khalatnikov: 2nd degree, calculations for the atomic bomb project
Sergey Mergelyan: mathematics
Manfred von Ardenne: 1st degree, for contributions to the Soviet atomic bomb project
Nikolay Bogolyubov: physics
Vitaly Ginzburg: 1st degree, physics
Eduard Haken: music
Bruno Pontecorvo: physics
Vasily Vladimirov: mathematics
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich: 1st degree, physics – for special works
Andrei Sakharov: 1st degree, physics
V. Alexandrov (Russian: Александров В. В.), Yu. Bazilevsky (Russian: Базилевский Ю. Я.), D. Zhuchkov (Russian: Жучков Д. А.), I. Lygin (Russian: Лыгин И. Ф.), G. Markov (Russian: Марков Г. Я.), B. Melnikov (Russian: Мельников Б. Ф.), G. Prokudayev (Russian: Прокудаев Г. М.), B. Rameyev, N. Trubnikov (Russian: Трубников Н. Б.), A. Tsygankin (Russian: Цыганкин А. П.), Yu. Shcherbakov (Russian: Щербаков Ю. Ф.) and L. Larionova (Russian: Ларионова Л.А.) – Strela computer development team: 1st degree
Igor Tamm: physics
Igor Kurchatov: physics
Grigori Aleksandrov, Isaak Dunayevsky, and Lyubov Orlova: film Circus (1936)
Grigori Aleksandrov, Nikolai Erdman, Isaak Dunayevsky, Lyubov Orlova, and Igor Ilyinsky: film Volga-Volga (1938)
Hamo Beknazarian, Avet Avetisyan, and Hrachia Nersisyan: film Zangezur (1938)
Mikheil Chiaureli and Spartak Bagashvili: film Arsena (1937)
Mikheil Chiaureli and Mikheil Gelovani: film The Great Dawn (1938)
Mark Donskoy and Varvara Massalitinova: films The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938) and On His Own (1939)
Alexander Dovzhenko, Yevgeny Samoylov, and Ivan Skuratov: film Shchors (1939)
Efim Dzigan: film The Sailors of Kronstadt (1936)
Efim Dzigan and Vsevolod Vishnevsky: film If War Comes Tomorrow (1938)
Sergei Eisenstein, Pyotr Pavlenko, Nikolay Cherkasov, and Andrei Abrikosov: film Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Fridrikh Ermler, Nikolay Bogolyubov, and Aleksandr Zrazhevsky: film The Great Citizen (1938–1939)
Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova: film The New Teacher (1939)
Yevgeni Ivanov-Barkov, Alty Karliyev, and Nina Alisova: film Dursun (1941)
Iosif Kheifits and Aleksandr Zarkhi: film Baltic Deputy (1937)
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, and Boris Chirkov: films The Youth of Maxim (1935), The Return of Maxim (1937), and The Vyborg Side (1939)
Leonid Lukov and Pavel Nilin: film A Great Life (Part I) (1940)
Vladimir Petrov, Nikolai Simonov, and Mikhail Zharov: film Peter the First (1937–1938)
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller, Boris Livanov, and Aleksandr Khanov: film Minin and Pozharsky (1939)
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller, Nikolai Cherkasov-Sergeyev, and Aleksandr Khanov: film Suvorov (1941)
Ivan Pyryev, Nikolai Kryuchkov, and Marina Ladynina: film Tractor-Drivers (1939)
Yuli Raizman, Ivan Peltser, and Nikolai Dorokhin: film Last Night (1937)
Gerbert Rappaport, Aleksandr Ivanovsky, Sergei Lemeshev, and Erast Garin: film Musical Story (1940)
Mikhail Romm, Aleksei Kapler, Boris Shchukin, and Nikolai Okhlopkov: films Lenin in October (1937) and Lenin in 1918 (1939)
Nikoloz Shengelaia: film Eliso (1928)
Nikoloz Shengelaia and Nato Vachnadze: film Orange Valley (1937)
Georgi Vasilyev, Sergei Vasilyev, and Boris Babochkin: film Chapaev (1939)
Sergei Yutkevich and Leonid Lyubashevsky: film Yakov Sverdlov (1940)
Aleksandr Zguridi, Gleb Troyanski, and Boris Dolin: documentary film In the Depths of the Sea (1938)
Aleksandr Zguridi and Gleb Troyanski: documentary film Force of Life (1940)
Ilya Kopalin: documentary film On Danube (1940)
Uzeyir Hajibeyov: Ker oghlu, opera
Aram Khachaturian: Violin Concerto
Nikolai Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 21
Mark Reizen: opera singer, bass
Sergei Sergeyev-Tsensky: literature
Yuri Shaporin: On the Field of Kulikovo, cantata
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet
Aleksey Shchusev, architecture
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov: literature
Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi: literature, for Peter I
Aleksandr Tvardovsky:literature
Olga Lepeshinskaya: ballet
Vera Mukhina: sculptor
Tikhon Khrennikov: Music to the film The Swineherd and the Shepherd
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7
Ilya Ehrenburg: literature
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh Soviet Violinist
Wanda Wasilewska, for her novel The Rainbow
Mukhtar Ashrafi: Symphony No. 1 Heroic
Aram Khachaturian: Gayaneh Ballet
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7
Vissarion Shebalin: String Quartet No. 5
Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi: literature, for The Road to Calvary
Pavel Bazhov: literature, for The Malachite Box
Margarita Aliger: for poetry, Zoya
The awards for this year were given in 1946
The awards for this year were given in 1946
Rza Tahmasib: cinema, for The Cloth-Peddler (Arshin Mal Alan)
Arnold Azrikan: dramatic tenor, Otello
Sergei Aslamazyan: cellist
Mikola Bazhan: literature, for In the Days of War (1945?)
Sergei Eisenstein: cinema, for Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Alexander Fadeyev: literature, for The Young Guard (1st edition, 1945)
Samuil Feinberg: Piano Concerto No. 2
Emil Gilels: pianist
Reinhold Glière: Concerto for voice and orchestra
Dmitri Kabalevsky: String Quartet No. 2
Gara Garayev: The Motherland, opera
Jovdat Hajiyev: The Motherland, opera
Veniamin Kaverin: literature, for The Two Captains
Aram Khachaturian: Symphony No. 2
Tikhon Khrennikov: At 6 p.m. after the War, music from the film
Boris Liatoshinsky: Ukrainian Quintet
Samuil Marshak: literature, for the play Twelve Months
Peretz Markish: literature
Vera Inber: poetry
Sulamith Messerer: ballet choreography
Nikolai Miaskovsky: String Quartet No. 9 – Cello Concerto
Vano Muradeli: Symphony No. 2
Vera Panova: literature, for Sputniki
Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov: Symphony No. 2
Sergei Orlov: Sculpture
Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 – Piano Sonata No. 8 – Cinderella Ballet
Alexander Prokofyev: poetry, for the 1944 poem "Rossiya"
Yuri Shaporin: Story of the Battle for the Russian Land
Andrei Shtogarenko: My Ukraine, symphony
Georgi Sviridov: Piano Trio
Aleksey Shchusev, architecture
Vikenty Veresaev, literature
Yevgeny Vuchetich, sculpture
Stepan Malkhasyants, philologist, for writing Armenian Explanatory Dictionary
Salomėja Nėris: poetry (after death)
Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano
Vissarion Shebalin: "Moscow", cantata
Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko: Mirandoline Suite
Vera Panova: literature, for Kruzhilikha
Aleksandr Tvardovsky: literature
Yevgeny Vuchetich, sculpture
Andrey Vyshinsky: Theory of Judicial Proofs
Pyotr Andreevich Pavlenko: literature, for Happiness
Boris Asafiev: Monograph on Glinka
Reinhold Glière: String Quartet No. 4
Gara Garayev: Leyli and Majnun, symphonic poem
Ilya Ehrenburg: literature
Anatoly Rybakov: literature, for The Dagger
Aleksey Shchusev, architecture
Volodymyr Sosyura: poetry
Nikolai Virta
Yevgeny Vuchetich: sculpture
The crew of the film Secret Agent
*Zinovy Moiseevich Vilensky:sculpture
Vladimir Fedorovich Popov: literature, for Steel and Slag
Fikret Amirov: Symphonic Mughams
Alexander Arutiunian: The Motherland, cantata
Vasiliy Nikolaevich Azhaev: literature for Far From Moscow (1949)
Dmitri Kabalevsky: Violin Concerto
Feodor Vasilyevich Gladkov: literature, for Story of My Childhood (1949?)
Sergei Gerasimov, Vladimir Rapoport, Vladimir Ivanov, Inna Makarova, Nonna Mordyukova, Sergei Gurzo, Lyudmila Shagalova, and Viktor Khokhryakov for the film The Young Guard (1948)
Vera Panova: literature, for The Bright Shore
Faina Ranevskaya: for outstanding creative achievements on theater stage
Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov: art
Yevgeny Vuchetich, sculpture
Ivan Vasilenko: literature, for The Little Star
Fyodor Fedorovsky: scenic design
Sandro Shanshiashvili: for his poetry and plays
Leonid Baratov: opera director
Reinhold Glière: The Bronze Horseman
Nikolai Myaskovsky: Sonata No. 2 for cello and piano
Dmitri Shostakovich: Song of the Forests – The Fall of Berlin for chorus
Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist
Yevgeny Vuchetich, sculpture
Dimitri Arakishvili, composer
Vadim Sobko, for the novel Guarantee of Peace
Vasily Yefanov: painter
Osip Abdulov: 2nd degree, actor
Arno Babadzhanian: Heroic Ballad
Vladimir Belyayev: literature for The Old Fortress: A Trilogy
Sergei Bondarchuk: Taras Shevchenko
Nikolai Cherkasov: for the film Alexander Popov (the role of Alexander Popov).
Isaak Dunaevsky: Music to the film The Kuban' Cossacks
Gevorg Emin: book of poetry New Road
German Galynin: Epic Poem
Edouard Grikurov: conductor (music)
Aleksandras Gudaitis-Guzevičius, book Kalvio Ignoto teisybė (The truth of blacksmith Ignotas)
Bruno Freindlich: for the film Alexander Popov (the role of Guglielmo Marconi).
Dmitri Kabalevsky: Taras's Family, opera
Jan Kapr: New Czechoslovakia, film music
Nikolai Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 27 – String Quartet No. 13
Sergei Prokofiev: On Guard for Peace, oratorio
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Anatoli Golovnya, Vissarion Shebalin, and Vladimir Belokurov: film Zhukovsky (1950)
Faina Ranevskaya: for the film U nih est' Rodina (They Have Their Motherland)
Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov: art (second time)
Anatoly Rybakov: literature
Otar Taktakishvili: Symphony No. 1
Teofilis Tilvytis, poem Usnynė
Yuri Trifonov, literature for Students
Suleiman Yudakov: composer, musician (composed the Tajik National Anthem)
Ashot Satian: Vocal-Symphony Poem "Songs of Ararat Valley"(1950)
Jovdat Hajiyev: For Peace, symphonic poem
Soltan Hajibeyov
Mukhtar Ashrafi
Pavel Necheporenko : Distinguished performance on the balalaika
Yuri Shaporin: Romances for Voice and Piano
Dmitri Shostakovich: Ten Poems for Chorus opus 88
Andrei Shtogarenko: In Memory of Lesya Ukrainka, symphonic suite
Juhan Smuul: literature
Otar Taktakishvili: Piano Concerto no 1
Aleksey Shchusev, architecture
Antanas Venclova: literature, Rinktinė (Selected Works)
Vladimir Veksler: physics
Hanon Izakson
Vladimir Chelomei: for missile design
Pavel Soloviev: for engines design
Birutė Kasperavičienė, Bronislovas Krūminis, Vaclovas Zubras, Ṧmuelis Liubeckis: for the design of the residential microdistrict Žirmūnai
Lev Korolyov, computer science
Evgeny Abramyan, nuclear physics
Nikolai Ryzhkov, future Soviet premier
Dmitrii Evgenievich Okhotsimsky: space scientist
Alexander Yakovlevich Bereznyak: for missile design (KSR-5 and Kh-28)
Alexander Yakovlevich Bereznyak: for missile design (Kh-22M)
Sergey Ilyushin: aeronautical engineering
Andrey Kapitsa: geographer
The developer of the KT315 transistor.
Boris Babaian
Vladimir Chelomei: for missile design
Igor Sergeevich Seleznev: for missile design (Kh-22MA)
Sergei Vonsovsky: physics
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov: physics
Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov (linguistic research)
Igor Sergeevich Seleznev: for missile design (KSR-5P)
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev: aeronautical engineering
Nikolai Ryzhkov, future Soviet premier
Grigory Eisenberg
Viktor Kremenuk – Institute for US and Canadian Studies (ISKRAN)
Valentin Panteleimonovich Smirnov
Fedor Andreevich Kuznetsov: for materials science
Alexei Abrikosov: physics
Vladimir Chelomei: for missile design
Sergei Chudinov: physics
Sergei Vonsovsky: physics
Nicolai Brandt: physics
Vladimir Ivanov-Omsky: physics
Victor Ogorodnikov physics
Isaac Tsidilkovsky physics
Kseniya Smekalova physics
Vitaly Stafeev physics
Yury Kopaev: physics
Igor Spassky
Zhores Alferov: physics
Nikolay Bogolyubov: physics
Igor Sergeevich Seleznev: for missile design (Kh-59)
Ilia Vekua
Yuri Yu. Gleba: biology
??? (for project 877 Varshavyanka submarine)
Algis Petras Piskarskas: nonlinear optics
Eugen Doga. Composer.
Anatoliy O. Morozov for the "Ulianovsk" flexible manufacturing system
Volodymyr Nemoshkalenko for the development of the method of photoelectron spectroscopy and its application in science and technology.
Nail H. Ibragimov: mathematics
Alexander Nadiradze: for missile design
Yury Kopaev: physics
Gregory Pikus: physics
Nikolay Basov: physics
Alexei Fridman, Nikolai Gor'kavyi: science and technology, for predicting of a system of new satellites of Uranus based on developed theory of collective and collisional processes in planetary rings.
Vera Inber: poetry;
Boris Gorbatov: literature;
Arkady Filippenko: music; for his "Second String Quartet"
Alykul Osmonov: poetry; for his efforts to modernize Kyrgyz literature
Ding Ling: literature
Ladislav Mráz: opera singer
Gustáv Papp: opera singer
Anatoly Polyansky, D.S.Vitukhin, Yu.V.Ratskevich, etc.: architecture, for "Pribrezhny" complex of Artek
Sergei Yutkevich and Yevgeni Gabrilovich for the film Lenin in Poland
Vytautas Žalakevičius, Donatas Banionis, and Jonas Gricius for the film Nobody Wanted to Die
Mark Donskoy for the film A Mother's Heart
Stanislav Rostotsky, Boris Dulenkov, Vyacheslav Shumsky, Nina Menshikova, Georgi Polonsky, and Vyacheslav Tikhonov for the film We'll Live Till Monday
Aleksei Losev for his History of Classical Aesthetics
Aleksandr Tvardovsky: literature
Sergei Gerasimov, Vladimir Rapoport, Pyotr Galadzhev, Oleg Zhakov, Vasily Shukshin,and Natalya Belokhvostikova for the film By the Lake
Qaysin Quli: literature
Sergey Mikaelyan: film
Alexander Isaakovich Gelman: film
Gevorg Emin: literature
Dmitri Anosov: science
Valentin Zorin: television documentaries
Mikael Tariverdiev
Andrey Voznenesensky
Evgeny Belyaev: music, tenor soloist
Yuri Norstein: arts
Vladimir Shainsky
Boris Shtokolov
Yevgeni Gabrilovich, Sergei Yutkevich, Nikolai Nemolyayev, and Lyudmila Kusakova for the film Lenin in Paris
Valery Gavrilin for the Choral Symphony
Arkady Khait (screenwriter), Anatoli Reznikov (director), Vyacheslav Nazaruk (artist) for animated cartoon series Leopold the Cat (category "Works of literature and arts for children")
Levonid Yakovlev
Vladimir Kobekin
Kostas Smoriginas
Vladimir Dudintsev
Dmitri Pokrovsky
Bulat Okudzhava
Dmitri Hvorostovsky