The Pushkin Prize (russian: Пушкинская премия) was established in

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by the Russian Academy of Sciences to honor one of the greatest Russian poets Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837). The prize was awarded to the Russian who achieved the highest standard of literary excellence. The prize was discontinued during the Soviet period. It was restored in 1989 by

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in Hamburg.История Пушкинских премий.
/ref> In 1995 the State Pushkin Prize was established by Boris Yeltsin's decree, with Vladimir Sokolov being the first laureate. Both lasted till 2005. In 2005 the New Pushkin Prize was established by the Aleksander Zhukov Fund, as well as the Pushkin and Mikhaylovskoye museums.The New Pushkin Prize laureates
In 2017 the International Creative Contest "World Pushkin" was established by the Russkiy Mir Foundation and the A. Pushkin State Literary Memorial and Natural Museum-Reserve Boldino.

Select list of winners

* Yakov Polonsky (1819–1898) * Apollon Maykov (1821–1897) *

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(1858–1921) * Konstantin Stanyukovich (1843–1903) * Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) *

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(1860–1904) * Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869–1905) * Aleksandr Kuprin (1870–1938) *

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(1870–1915)

Alfred Toepfer Pushkin Prize

* Andrey Bitov (1990) * Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1991) *

Fazil Iskander Fazil Abdulovich Iskander (russian: Фази́ль Абду́лович Исканде́р; ab, Фазиль Абдул-иԥа Искандер; 6 March 1929 – 31 July 2016) was a Soviet and Russian"There's no doubt I'm a Russian writer who pr ...

and Oleg Volkov (1992) * Dmitri Prigov and Timur Kibirov (1993) * Bella Akhmadulina (1994) * Semyon Lipkin (1995) * Sasha Sokolov (1995, 1996) * Anatoly Zhigulin (1996) * Viktor Astafyev (1997) * Vladimir Makanin (1998) *

Oleg Chukhontsev Oleg Grigoryevich Chukhontsev ( rus, Оле́г Григо́рьевич Чухо́нцев, p=ɐˈlʲeɡ ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɕʊˈxontsɨf, a=Olyeg Grigor'yevich Chuhonczyev.ru.vorb.oga; born 1938 in Pavlovskiy Posad) is a Russian poe ...

and Alexander Kushner (1999) *

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(2000) * Yevgeny Rein (2003) *

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(2005)

Yeltsyn Pushkin Prize

* Vladimir Sokolov (1995) * Anatoly Zhigulin (1996) * Alexander Kushner *

Vadim Shefner Vadim Sergeevich Shefner (russian: Вади́м Серге́евич Ше́фнер); (December 30, 1914 (January 12, 1915) - January 5, 2002) was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who started publishing poetry in 1936. His first poetry collectio ...

Novella Matveeva Novella Nikolayevna Matveyeva (russian: Новелла Николаевна Матвеева; 7 October 1934 in Pushkin, Saint Petersburg – 4 September 2016, Moscow Oblast) was a Russian bard, poet, writer, screenwriter, dramatist, and literary ...

* Igor Shklyarevsky

The New Pushkin Prize (2005–present)

* Sergey Bocharov (2005) * Yuri Kublanovsky (2006) * Alexey Lukyanov (2006) * Dmitry Novikov (2007) * Vyacheslav Pyetsukh (2007) * Valerya Pustovaya (2008) *

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(2009) *

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(2009; declined prize) * Valery Popov (2009) * Valentin Kurbatov (2010) * Irina Rodnyanskaya (2010) *

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(2011) * Ildar Abuzyarov (2011) * Hans Boland (2014; declined prize)

The International Creative Contest "World Pushkin" (2017–present)

* Lionenko Daria Sergeevna (Russia) (2017) * Suslikov Anton Ivanovich (Russia) (2017) * Troshchinskaya-Stepushina Tatyana Evgenievna (Belarus) (2017) * Antonova Valeria Borisovna and Shulenko Elizaveta Alekseevna(Hungary, Budapest, USA) (2017) * Dang Thi Thu Huong (Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City) (2017) * Vien Kieu Nga (Vietnam, Ha Giang)">Vietnam.html" ;"title="(Vietnam">(Vietnam, Ha Giang) (2017) *Abzhueva Julia (Russia, Ekaterinburg) (2017)

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