Prizes, Awards and Honors
- Soviet Union
- 1st Prize, All-Soviet Union Piano Competition, 1933
- 2nd Prize, Vienna International Piano Competition, 1936
- 1st Prize, Concours Eugène Ysaÿe, Brussels, 1938
- Stalin Prize, USSR, 1946
- People's Artist of the USSR, 1954
- Three Orders of Lenin, USSR, including 1961
- Lenin Prize, 1962
- Hero of Socialist Labour
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Order of the Friendship of Peoples
- Order of the Badge of Honour
- Foreign
- Order of Commandeur Mérite Culturel et Artistique de Paris, 1967
- Gold Medal of the City of Paris, France
- Order of Leopold (Belgium)
- Honorary Member, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome
- Honorary Member, Royal Academy of Music, London
- Honorary Professor, Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest
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