Samuil Marshak - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

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  • Four Stalin Prizes
second class (1942) - a poetic text to posters and cartoons
second class (1946) - for the play-tale "Twelve Months" (1943)
second class (1949) - translations of sonnets by William Shakespeare
first class (1951) - a collection of "Verses for Children"
  • Lenin Prize (1963) - for the book "Selected poetry for children" (1962) and children's books: "A quiet tale," "Big pocket," "The Adventure of the road", "Calm down", "From one to ten", "Vaks Blob", "Who can find a ring", "Merry journey from A to Z"
  • Two Orders of Lenin, incl 1939
  • Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (1945)
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour
  • Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (1945)
  • In 2012, his books were included in an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art

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