Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Honors

Honors

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.

In 1962, Yevtushenko was featured on the cover of Time magazine. In 1993, Yevtushenko received a medal as 'Defender of Free Russia,' which was given to those who took part in resisting the hard-line Communist coup in August 1991. In July 2000 the Russian Academy of Sciences named a star in his honor. In 2001, his childhood home in Zima Junction, Siberia, was restored and opened as a permanent museum of poetry. Yevtushenko received in 1991 the American Liberties Medallion, the highest honor conferred by the American Jewish Committee. Laureate Of The International Botev Prize, 2006. In 2007, he was awarded the Ovid Prize, Romania, in recognition of his body of work.

• Order of the Badge of Honour (1969)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1983)
• USSR State Prize (1984) – for the poem "Mother and neutron bomb"
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (offered in 1993, but refused in protest against the war in Chechnya)
• Tsarskoselskaya art prize (2003)
• Honorary Citizen of the city of Petrozavodsk (2006)
• Honorary Doctor of Petrozavodsk State University (2007)
• Commander of the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins (Chile, 2009)
• State Prize of the Russian Federation (2010)
• Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd class
• "Golden Chain of the Commonwealth" (2011)
• "Frudzheno-81" (Italy), "SIMBA Academy" in 1984 (Italy)
• International Prize "Golden Lion" (Venice)
• Grinzane Cavour Prize (22 January 2005, Turin, Italy) – "for his ability to convey the eternal themes of the means of literature, especially to the younger generation"
• Nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature (2007) – for his poem "Babi Yar"
• Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Santo Domingo
• an asteroid was named 4234 Evtushenko (1994)