Recipients of the Lenin Prize

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)

Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)

Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1911-1985)

Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932–1986)

Soviet and Kyrgyz author (1928–2008)

Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)

Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)

Russian and Soviet pianist, composer and conductor (1891–1953)

the second president of Ukraine

Russian physicist (1916–2009)

Soviet-Russian physicist (1930–2019)

Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)

Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist

Soviet Armenian composer (1903–1978)

Soviet and Russian physicist (1916-2002)

Russian mathematician (1903–1987)

Soviet physicist (1922-2001)

Soviet diplomat

President of Angola (1975-1979)

Russian mathematician (1912-1986)

Soviet physical chemist (1896-1986)

Russian ballet dancer (1925-2015)

Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor (1927-2007)

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (top leader) from 2011 to 2024

Soviet nuclear physicist (1903-1960)

Russian mathematician who studied integrable systems and differential equations (1937–2010)

Soviet biochemist (1894-1980)

Soviet and Russian actor (1925-1994)

Soviet cosmonaut (1935-2000)

Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor (1920–1994)

Russian children's poet (1882–1969)

Russian mathematician (1888-1925)

Soviet Ukrainian screenwriter, film producer and director (1894–1956)

Soviet and Russian writer (1913–2009)

Soviet writer, poet, playwright and wartime correspondent (1915-1979)

Russian and Soviet aerospace engineer (1888-1972)

Soviet and Russian actor, theatre and film director (1927-2007)

Avar poet (1923-2003)

Soviet military commander and politician (1908-1984)

Soviet pianist (1915-1997)

Soviet actor, writer, screenwriter and film director (1929-1974)

Soviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist (1914-1987)

Soviet violinist (1908-1974)

Soviet and Russian actor (1928—2009)

Soviet-Russian composer (1904-1986)

Soviet rocket engineer (1908-1989)

Soviet aircraft designer (1905–1970)

Soviet aircraft engineer and aeroplanes designer (1894–1977)

one of the most prestigious awards of the Soviet Union

Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)

Soviet physicist (1880–1960)

Soviet aeroplane designer (1906-1984)

Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, translator, literary critic, screenwriter, author of popular children's books (1887–1964)

Belarusian writer (1924–2003)

Soviet aeronautical engineer, aircraft designer and founder of the Yakovlev Design Bureau (1906–1989)

Soviet poet

Soviet ballet dancer (1910-1998)

Soviet and Russian composer and pianist

Soviet film director, screenwriter, actor (1906-1985)