Honours and Awards
- Orders of Lenin, nine times (incl. 1945, 1953, 1956, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981)
- Stalin Prize (1941, 1949)
- Honorary Member of the British Chemical Society (1943)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1946)
- Honorary member of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1954)
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1956)
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London (1958)
- Member of the German Academy of Naturalists (1959)
- Honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1961)
- Honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences (1962)
- Foreign member of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1963)
- Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy (1965)
- Hero of Socialist Labour, twice (1966, 1976)
- Lomonosov Gold Medal (1969)
- Lenin Prize (1976)
- Order of the October Revolution (1986)
- Medal "In commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
- Mendeleev Prize
Semyonov was also an Honorary Doctor of several universities: Oxford (1960), Brussels (1962), London (1965), Budapest Technical University (1965), Polytechnic Institute of Milan (1964) and others.
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