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

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by the

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to honor one of the greatest Russian poets

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

(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 Alfred Toepfer Foundation in

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.История Пушкинских премий.
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Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

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, 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

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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 Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (russian: Яков Петрович Полонский; ) was a leading Pushkinist poet who tried to uphold the waning traditions of Russian Romantic poetry during the heyday of realistic prose. Of noble birth, Polonsky ...

(1819–1898) *

Apollon Maykov Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (russian: Аполло́н Никола́евич Ма́йков, , Moscow – , Saint Petersburg) was a Russian poet, best known for his lyric verse showcasing images of Russian villages, nature, and history. His love ...

(1821–1897) * Nikolai Kholodkovsky (1858–1921) * Konstantin Stanyukovich (1843–1903) *

Ivan Bunin Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin ( or ; rus, Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин, p=ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ˈbunʲɪn, a=Ivan Alyeksyeyevich Bunin.ru.vorb.oga; – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the ...

(1870–1953) * Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) * Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869–1905) * Aleksandr Kuprin (1870–1938) * Ferdinand de la Bart (1870–1915)

Alfred Toepfer Pushkin Prize

Andrey Bitov Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov (russian: Андре́й Гео́ргиевич Би́тов, 27 May 1937 – 3 December 2018) was a prominent Russian writer of Circassian ancestry. Biography Bitov was born in Leningrad. His father was an architect ...

(1990) *

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya (russian: Людмила Стефановна Петрушевская; born 26 May 1938) is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright. She began her career writing and putting on plays, which were often cen ...

(1991) * Fazil Iskander and Oleg Volkov (1992) *

Dmitri Prigov Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov (russian: Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович При́гов, 5 November 1940 in Moscow – 16 July 2007 in Moscow Timur Kibirov Timur ; chg, ''Aqsaq Temür'', 'Timur the Lame') or as ''Sahib-i-Qiran'' ( 'Lord of the Auspicious Conjunction'), his epithet. ( chg, ''Temür'', 'Iron'; 9 April 133617–19 February 1405), later Timūr Gurkānī ( chg, ''Temür Kür ...

(1993) * Bella Akhmadulina (1994) *

Semyon Lipkin Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin (russian: Семён Израилевич Липкин) (6 September (19, New Style) 1911 – 31 March 2003) was a Russian writer, poet, and literary translator. Lipkin's importance as a poet was recognized once his w ...

(1995) * Sasha Sokolov (1995, 1996) * Anatoly Zhigulin (1996) * Viktor Astafyev (1997) * Vladimir Makanin (1998) * Oleg Chukhontsev and

Alexander Kushner Alexander Semyonovich Kushner (russian: link=no, Алекса́ндр Семёнович Ку́шнер) is a Russian poet from Saint Petersburg. Biography Kushner was born in Leningrad into a Russian-Jewish family; his father was a naval en ...

(1999) * Yuri Mamleev (2000) * Yevgeny Rein (2003) * Boris Paramonov (2005)

Yeltsyn Pushkin Prize

* Vladimir Sokolov (1995) * Anatoly Zhigulin (1996) * Alexander Kushner * Vadim Shefner * Novella Matveeva * Igor Shklyarevsky

The New Pushkin Prize (2005–present)

* Sergey Bocharov (2005) *

Yuri Kublanovsky Yury Mikhaylovich Kublanovsky (russian: Ю́рий Миха́йлович Кублано́вский; 30 April 1947 in Rybinsk) is a Russian poet, essayist, critic and art historian, known for his dissident past, started in the informal literary un ...

(2006) * Alexey Lukyanov (2006) * Dmitry Novikov (2007) * Vyacheslav Pyetsukh (2007) * Valerya Pustovaya (2008) * Gleb Gorbovsky (2008) * Oleg Sivun (2009) * Luis Freixial (2009; declined prize) * Valery Popov (2009) *

Valentin Kurbatov Valentin Yakovlevich Kurbatov (russian: Валенти́н Я́ковлевич Курба́тов) (29 September 1939 – 6 March 2021) was a Russian literary critic, prose writer, jury member of the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award, member of t ...

(2010) *

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(2010) * Vera Milchina (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).html" ;"title="Vietnam.html" ;"title="(Vietnam">(Vietnam, Ha Giang)">Vietnam.html" ;"title="(Vietnam">(Vietnam, Ha Giang) (2017) *Abzhueva Julia (Russia, Ekaterinburg) (2017)

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