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State Prize Of The USSR
The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor. It was established on 9 September 1966. After the dissolution 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, although some sources give a 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Prizes Of The Soviet Republics
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. Republics * Russian SFSR ** Maxim Gorky (literature) ** Konstantin Stanislavski (theatre) ** Mikhail Glinka (music) ** Vasili Bazhenov (architecture) ** Ilya Repin (fine arts) ** Brothers Vasilyev (cinema) ** Nadezhda Krupskaya (art and literature for children) * Ukrainian SSR ** Taras Shevchenko ** Pavlo Tychyna ** Maksym Rylsky ** Lesya Ukrainka ** Nikolai Ostrovsky * Belarusian SSR **Yanka Kupala (literature) **Yakub Kolas ** Panteleymon Lepeshinsky * Uzbek SSR ** Alisher Navoiy * Kazakh SSR **Abay Qunanbayuli (literature) ** Kurmangazy (music) **Kulyash Baiseitova * Georgian SSR ** Shota Rustaveli * Azerbaijan SSR: ** Mirza Akhundov (literature) ** Uzeyir Hajibeyov (music) * Lithuanian SSR ** Žemaitė (literature) ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awards Disestablished In 1991
An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An award may be described by three aspects: 1) who is given 2) what 3) by whom, all varying according to purpose. The recipient is often to a single person, such as a student or athlete, or a representative of a group of people, be it an organisation, a sports team or a whole country. The award item may be a decoration, that is an insignia suitable for wearing, such as a medal, badge, or rosette (award). It can also be a token object such as certificate, diploma, championship belt, trophy, or plaque. The award may also be or be accompanied by a title of honor, as well as an object of direct value such as prize money or a scholarship. Furthermore, an honorable mention is an award given, typically in education, that does not confer the recipient(s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awards Established In 1966
An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An award may be described by three aspects: 1) who is given 2) what 3) by whom, all varying according to purpose. The recipient is often to a single person, such as a student or athlete, or a representative of a group of people, be it an organisation, a sports team or a whole country. The award item may be a decoration, that is an insignia suitable for wearing, such as a medal, badge, or rosette (award). It can also be a token object such as certificate, diploma, championship belt, trophy, or plaque. The award may also be or be accompanied by a title of honor, as well as an object of direct value such as prize money or a scholarship. Furthermore, an honorable mention is an award given, typically in education, that does not confer the recipien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Awards And Decorations Of The Soviet Union
Civil may refer to: *Civic virtue, or civility *Civil action, or lawsuit * Civil affairs *Civil and political rights *Civil disobedience *Civil engineering *Civil (journalism), a platform for independent journalism *Civilian, someone not a member of armed forces *Civil law (other), multiple meanings *Civil liberties *Civil religion *Civil service *Civil society *Civil war A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ... * Civil (surname) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Recipients Of The Stalin Prize
The State Stalin Prize, usually called the Stalin Prize, existed from 1941 to 1954, although some sources give a 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. Recipients of the Stalin Prize in science and engineering by year 1941 * Adela Rosenthal: mathematics * Abram Alikhanov: physics * Alexander E. 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 * Dmitry Maksutov: astronomic optics * Vladimir Obruchev: geology * Evgeny Paton: electrical welding * Nikolai Polikarpov: aeronautical engineering * Nikolay Semyonov: chemical physics * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Recipients Of The USSR State Prize
The USSR State Prize was the Soviet Union's state honor. It was established on 9 September 1966. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the prize was followed up by the State Prize of the Russian Federation. Recipients of the State Prize in science and engineering by year 1967 * Vladimir Chelomei: missile design 1968 * Pavel Solovyov: engines design * Birutė Kasperavičienė, Bronislovas Krūminis, Vaclovas Zubras, Ṧmuelis Liubeckis: for the design of the residential microdistrict Žirmūnai * Dmitri Lyudvigovich Tomashevich for the design of the 3M7 Drakon 1969 * Lev Korolyov: computer science * Evgeny Abramyan: nuclear physics * Nikolai Ryzhkov: future Soviet premier * Alexander Yanshin 1970 * Dmitrii Evgenievich Okhotsimsky: space scientist * Alexander Yakovlevich Bereznyak: for missile design (KSR-5 and Kh-28) * Vladimir Polukhin: optics * Ali Guliyev: chemistry 1971 * Alexander Yakovlevich Bereznyak: for missile design ( Kh-22M) * Sergey I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stalin Peace Prize
The International Lenin Peace Prize (russian: международная Ленинская премия мира, ''mezhdunarodnaya Leninskaya premiya mira)'' was a Soviet Union award named in honor of Vladimir Lenin. It was awarded by a panel appointed by the Soviet government, to notable individuals whom the panel indicated had "strengthened peace among comrades". It was founded as the International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples, but was renamed the International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples (russian: Международная Ленинская премия «За укрепление мира между народами», ''Mezhdunarodnaya Leninskaya premiya «Za ukrepleniye mira mezhdu narodami»'') as a result of de-Stalinization. Unlike the Nobel Prize, the Lenin Peace Prize was usually awarded to several people a year rather than to just one individual. The prize was mainly awarded to prominent Communists and supporters of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republics Of The Soviet Union
The Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Union Republics ( rus, Сою́зные Респу́блики, r=Soyúznye Respúbliki) were National delimitation in the Soviet Union, national-based administrative units of the Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The Soviet Union was formed in 1922 by a Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, treaty between the Soviet republics of Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussia, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia, Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Transcaucasia, and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukraine, by which they became its constituent republics. For most of its history, the USSR was a highly Centralisation, centralized state despite its nominal structure as a federation of republics; the decentralization reforms during the era of ''perestroika'' and ''glasnost'' conducted by Mikhail Gorbachev are cited as o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonina W
Antonina may refer to: Geography * Antonina, Paraná, a municipality in Brazil * Antonina, Bełchatów County, in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland * Antonina, Pajęczno County, in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland * Antonina, Poddębice County, in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland * Antonina, Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland Other uses * Antonina (bug), ''Antonina'' (bug), a genus of mealybugs * Antonina (name) * Antonina (wife of Belisarius) (c. 495–after 565), Byzantine patrikia and wife of the general Belisarius * ''Antonina'' (Tur novel), by Evgenia Tur * ''Antonina'' (Collins novel), an 1850 novel by Wilkie Collins See also * Antonia (other) * Antonine (name) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Volkov
Solomon Moiseyevich Volkov (russian: Соломон Моисеевич Волков; born 17 April 1944) is a Russian journalist and musicologist. He is best known for ''Testimony'', which was published in 1979 following his emigration from the Soviet Union in 1976. He claimed that the book was the memoir of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to him by the composer. Life Volkov was born in Uroteppa (Russian: ''Ura-Tyube'', now Istaravshan), near Leninabad (now Khujand), Tajikistan. He studied violin at the Leningrad Conservatory, receiving his diploma with honors in 1967. He continued graduate work in musicology there until 1971. He also served as artistic director of the Experimental Studio of Chamber Opera. He went to the United States in June 1976. Early on, he was a research associate at the Russian Institute of Columbia University. He lives in New York City with his wife, Marianna (née Tiisnekka), a pianist and photographer. He is also a United States citizen. Expertise His p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
