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 This is a list of authors who have written poetry in the Russian language. Alphabetical list A B C D E F G I K L M N O P R S T U V Y Z Sources See also * List of Russian archit ...

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

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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 Nikolai or Nikolay is an East Slavic variant of the masculine name Nicholas. It may refer to: People Royalty * Nicholas I of Russia (1796–1855), or Nikolay I, Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855 * Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918), or Niko ...

(1858–1921) *

Konstantin Stanyukovich Konstantin Mikhaylovich Staniukovich or Stanyukovich (russian: Константин Михайлович Станюкович; March 30, 1843 – May 20, 1903) National Library of Australia"Library items by K. M. Staniukovich" was a Russian writer, ...

(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 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; 29 January 1860Old Style date 17 January. – 15 July 1904Old Style date 2 July.) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career a ...

(1860–1904) *

Mirra Lokhvitskaya Mirra Lokhvitskaya (russian: Ми́рра Ло́хвицкая; born Maria Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya – russian: Мари́я Алекса́ндровна Ло́хвицкая; November 19, 1869 – August 27, 1905) was a Russian poet who rose to ...

(1869–1905) *

Aleksandr Kuprin Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (russian: link=no, Александр Иванович Куприн; – 25 August 1938) was a Russian writer best known for his novels ''The Duel'' (1905)Kuprin scholar Nicholas Luker, in his biography ''A ...

(1870–1938) *

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(1870–1915)

Alfred Toepfer Pushkin Prize

* Andrey Bitov (1990) * Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1991) * Fazil Iskander and Oleg Volkov (1992) * Dmitri Prigov and Timur Kibirov (1993) *

Bella Akhmadulina Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina ( rus, Бе́лла (Изабе́лла) Аха́товна Ахмаду́лина, tt-Cyrl, Белла Әхәт кызы Әхмәдуллина; 10 April 1937 – 29 November 2010) was a Soviet and Russian poet, ...

(1994) * Semyon Lipkin (1995) * Sasha Sokolov (1995, 1996) * Anatoly Zhigulin (1996) * Viktor Astafyev (1997) * Vladimir Makanin (1998) *

Oleg Chukhontsev Oleg Grigoryevich Chukhontsev ( rus, Оле́г Григо́рьевич Чухо́нцев, p=ɐˈlʲeɡ ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɕʊˈxontsɨf, a=Olyeg Grigor'yevich Chuhonczyev.ru.vorb.oga; born 1938 in Pavlovskiy Posad) is a Russian poe ...

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 eng ...

(1999) * Yuri Mamleev (2000) * Yevgeny Rein (2003) *

Boris Paramonov Boris may refer to: People * Boris (given name), a male given name *:''See'': List of people with given name Boris * Boris (surname) * Boris I of Bulgaria (died 907), the first Christian ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, canonized after his ...

(2005)

Yeltsyn Pushkin Prize

* Vladimir Sokolov (1995) * Anatoly Zhigulin (1996) * Alexander Kushner *

Vadim Shefner Vadim Sergeevich Shefner (russian: Вади́м Серге́евич Ше́фнер); (December 30, 1914 (January 12, 1915) - January 5, 2002) was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who started publishing poetry in 1936. His first poetry collecti ...

Novella Matveeva Novella Nikolayevna Matveyeva (russian: Новелла Николаевна Матвеева; 7 October 1934 in Pushkin, Saint Petersburg – 4 September 2016, Moscow Oblast) was a Russian bard, poet, writer, screenwriter, dramatist, and literary ...

Igor Shklyarevsky Igor Ivanovich Shklyarevsky (russian: Игорь Иванович Шкляре́вский; June 25, 1938 – September 8, 2021) was a Russian poet and translator. Shklyarevsky was a 1987 Laureate of the USSR State Prize. He died from complicati ...

The New Pushkin Prize (2005–present)

Sergey Bocharov Sergey may refer to: * Sergey (name), a Russian given name (including a list of people with the name) * Sergey, Switzerland, a municipality in Switzerland * Sergey (wasp), ''Sergey'' (wasp), a genus in subfamily Doryctinae {{Disambiguation ...

(2005) * Yuri Kublanovsky (2006) * Alexey Lukyanov (2006) *

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(2007) *

Vyacheslav Pyetsukh Vyacheslav, also transliterated Viacheslav or Viatcheslav (russian: Вячеслав, Vjačeslav ; uk, В'ячеслав, V"jačeslav ), is a Russian and Ukrainian masculine given name. It is the equivalent of Belarusian Вячаслаў/Вацла ...

(2007) * Valerya Pustovaya (2008) *

Gleb Gorbovsky Gleb (Russian language, Russian and be, Глеб) or Hlib ( uk, Гліб) is a Slavic male given name derived from the Old Norse name ''Guðleifr'', which means "heir of god." According to another version, the name Gleb comes from the name Olaf. It ...

(2008) *

Oleg Sivun Oleg (russian: Олег), Oleh ( uk, Олег), or Aleh ( be, Алег) is an East Slavic given name. The name is very common in Russia, Ukraine and Belаrus. It derives from the Old Norse ''Helgi'' ( Helge), meaning "holy", "sacred", or "bles ...

(2009) *

Luis Freixial Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archai ...

(2009; declined prize) * Valery Popov (2009) * Valentin Kurbatov (2010) * Irina Rodnyanskaya (2010) *

Vera Milchina Vera may refer to: Names * Vera (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *Vera (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) **Vera (), archbishop of the archdiocese of Tarr ...

(2011) * Ildar Abuzyarov (2011) *

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(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) *

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and Shulenko Elizaveta Alekseevna(Hungary, Budapest, USA) (2017) * Dang Thi Thu Huong (Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City) (2017) *

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References

Alexander Pushkin Russian literary awards Awards established in 1881 Russian Academy of Sciences Lists of Russian people 1881 establishments in the Russian Empire {{lit-award-stub