Awards
- Soviet Union
- Hero of Socialist Labor (1966)
- Order of Lenin (1946, 1956, 1966)
- Order of the October Revolution (1971)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1940)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (1972)
- People's Artist of the USSR (1954)
- People's Artist of the RSFSR (1948)
- International Peace Prize (1954)
- Lenin Prize (1958 - for the 11th symphony "1905")
- State Stalin Prize in arts (1941 - 1st class, for piano quintet; 1942 - 1st class, 7th ("Leningrad") Symphony; 1946 - 2nd class, a trio, 1948, 1949, 1949, 1949, 1950 - 1st class, for the music for the film Meeting on the Elbe, 1952 - 2nd class, 10 poems for chorus)
- USSR State Prize (1968 - for the poem "The Execution of Stepan Razin" for bass, chorus and orchestra)
- Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR (1974 - for the 14th string quartet and choral cycle "Fidelity")
- National Prize of Ukraine Taras Shevchenko (posthumously, 1976 - USSR State Prize named after Taras Shevchenko - for the opera "Katerina Ismailov," staged in KUGATOB Shevchenko)
- United Kingdom
- Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society (1966)
- Finland
- Sibelius Award (1958)
- United States
- Oscar nomination for Khovanshchina, Best Score (Musical) in 1961
- Austria
- Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria in Silver (1967)
- Denmark
- Léonie Sonning Music Prize (1974)
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