Awards and Honours
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- Lenin Prize (1959)
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1964, with the pioneering work done in the field of quantum electronics)
- Hero of Socialist Labour — twice (1969, 1982)
- Gold Medal of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1975)
- A. Volta Gold Medal (1977)
- Kalinga Prize (1986)
- USSR State Prize (1989)
- Lomonosov Grand Gold Medal, Moscow State University (1990)
- Order of Lenin – five times
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd class
- Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
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