David Oistrakh - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia.
Soviet
  • Two Orders of Lenin – 1946 and 1966
  • Order of the Badge of Honour, twice – 1937 and ?
  • People's Artist of the USSR, 1953
  • Stalin Prize, 1st class – 1943
  • Lenin Prize – 1960
  • Honoured Artist of the RSFSR
Foreign
  • Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland (1966)
  • Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold II (Belgium, 1967)

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