Viktor Tikhomirov - Honors and Recognitions

Honors and Recognitions

For his accomplishments, Victor Vasilievitch Tikhomirov received the following USSR/Russian decorations:

• Three times laureate of the Stalin Prize (1943, 1945, 1953)
• Twice received Order of Lenin, the highest decoration bestowed by the USSR
• Awarded Order of the Red Star
• Received Order of the Badge of Honour
• Twice decorated with the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
• Received Medal for the Defense of Moscow
• Received Medal for the Deeds of Prowess in the Great Patriotic War.

In 1953, he was elected a Corresponding Member of the highly prestigious USSR Academy of Sciences.

In 1956, he became one of the first 12 persons who were assigned the newly introduced title of Designer General.

In 1995, his name was given to the Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design (Tikhomirov NIIP).

In 2002, the Tikhomirov Award was introduced in the NIIP, the most prominent R&D achievement of the enterprise.

In 2004, pursuant to a resolution of the Geneva Graduate Institute of Business and Management, a nine-magnitude star in the Capricornus constellation was named after Tikhomirov and noted in the Ross Astro-Databank.