Pushkin Prize

The Pushkin Prize (Russian Пушкинская премия) was established in 1881 by the Russian Academy of Sciences to honor one of the greatest Russian poets Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837). The prize was awarded to the Russian who achieved the highest standard of literary excellence. The prize was discontinued during the Soviet period. It was restored in 1989 by Alfred Toepfler in Hamburg. In 1995 the State Pushkin Prize was established by Boris Yeltsin's decree, with Sasha Sokolov being the first laureate. Both lasted till 2005. In 2005 the New Pushkin Prize was established by the Aleksander Zhukov Fund, as well as the Pushkin and Mikhaylovskoye museums.

Select list of winners

• Yakov Polonsky (1819–1898)
• Apollon Maykov (1821–1897)
• Nikolai Kholodkovsky (1858–1921)
• Konstantin Stanyukovich (1843–1903)
• Ivan Bunin (1870–1953)
• Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)
• Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869–1905)
• Aleksandr Kuprin (1870–1938)
• Ferdinand de la Bart (1870–1915)

1990–2005

• Andrey Bitov (1990)
• Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1991)
• Fazil Iskander (1992)
• Oleg Volkov (1992)
• Dmitri Prigov (1993)
• Timur Kibirov (1993)
• Bella Akhmadulina (1994)
• Semyon Lipkin (1995)
• Sasha Sokolov (1995, 1996)
• Anatoly Zhigulin (1996)
• Viktor Astafyev (1997)
• Vladimir Makanin (1998)
• Oleg Chukhontsev (1998, 1999)
• Alexander Kushner (1999)
• Vadim Shefner (State Prize)
• Yuri Mamleev (2000)
• Novella Matveeva (State Prize)
• Yuz Aleshkovsky (2001)
• Igor Shklyarevsky (State Prize)
• Yevgeny Rein (2003)
• Boris Paramonov (2005)

The New Pushkin Prize (2005–present)

• Sergey Bocharov (2005)
• Yuri Kublanovsky (2006)
• Alexey Lukyanov (2006)
• Dmitry Novikov (2007)
• Vyacheslav Pyetsukh (2007)
• Valerya Pustovaya (2008)
• Gleb Gorbovsky (2008)
• Oleg Sivun (2009)
• Valery Popov (2009)
• Valentin Kurbatov (2010)
• Irina Rodnyanskaya (2010)
• Vera Milchina (2011)
• Ildar Abuzyarov (2011)
• Hans Boland (2014; declined prize)

See also

• Demidov Prize
• Awards and decorations of the Russian Federation