Andrei Sakharov - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.
  • Hero of Socialist Labour, three times (August 12, 1953, June 20, 1956, March 7, 1962)
  • Four Orders of Lenin
  • Lenin Prize (1956)
  • Stalin Prize (1953)

In 1980, Sakharov was stripped of all Soviet awards for "anti-Soviet activities". Later, during glasnost, he declined the return of his awards and, consequently, Mikhail Gorbachev did not sign the necessary decree.

  • Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (1974)
  • Nobel Peace Prize (1975)
  • Grand Cross of Order of the Cross of Vytis (January 8, 2003, posthumously)

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