Olga Bergholz - Honours and Legacy

Honours and Legacy

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.
  • Stalin Prize, third class (1951) - for the poem "Pervorossiisk" (1950)
  • Order of Lenin
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour
  • Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" (1943)
  • Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
  • Honorary citizen of St. Petersburg (1994)

A minor planet 3093 Bergholz discovered by Soviet astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova in 1971 is named after her. One of the streets in Saint Petersburg is named after her. A crater on Venus is named after her.

American playwright Ivan Fuller, wrote a play about Berggolts in 2009 called "Awake in Me."

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