Viktor Astafyev - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.

Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University is named in his honour.

  • USSR State Prize (1978 - for the story "King Fish" (1976) and 1991 - for his novel "Sighted Staff" (1988))
  • Maxim Gorky RSFSR State Prize (1975) - for the story "The Pass" (1959), "Theft" (1966), "Last Bow" (1968), "Shepherd and Shepherdess" (1971)
  • State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995 - for his novel "Cursed and killed and 2003 - posthumously)
  • Pushkin Prize (Germany, 1997)
  • Award "Triumph"
  • Hero of Socialist Labour (1989)
  • Order of Lenin (1989)
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour, three times (1971, 1974, 1984)
  • Order of Friendship of Peoples (1981) - the anniversary of the Union of Soviet Writers
  • Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (1985)
  • Order of Friendship - 70th anniversary of his birth
  • Order of the Red Star
  • Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd class
  • Medal For Courage (1943)
  • Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

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