Stalin Prize winners

Vladimir Georgievich Gajdarov (Russian: Владимир Георгиевич Гайдаров; July 25, 1893 – November 17, 1978) was a Russian film actor and star of Russian silent cinema.

Yekaterina Vasilyevna Geltzer (November 2, 1876 - December 12, 1962) was a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet who danced in the theatre from 1898 to 1935.

Sergei Vladimirovich Lukyanov (Russian: Сергей Владимирович Лукья́нов; September 27, 1910 - March 1, 1965) was a Soviet film and theater actor.

Mirza Agha Aliyev (Azerbaijani: Mirzəağa Əliyev; 1883, Hövsan (Baku) - October 25, 1954, Baku) was an Azerbaijani actor.

Asaf Mikhailovich Messerer (Russian: Асаф Михайлович Мессерер, November 19, 1903 - March 7, 1992) was a Lithuanian Jewish and Soviet ballet dancer and ballet teacher.

Alexey Viktorovich Shchusev (Russian: Алексе́й Ви́кторович Щу́сев; 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1894, 1873 – 24 May 1949) was an acclaimed Russian and Soviet architect whose works may be regarded as a bridge connecting Revivalist architecture of Imperial Russia with Stalin's Empire Style.

Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar (Russian: Игорь Эммануилович Грабарь, 25 March 1871 in Budapest – 16 May 1960 in Moscow) was a Russian post-impressionist painter, publisher, restorer and historian of art.

Dmitry Nikolaevich Chechulin (Russian: Дми́трий Никола́евич Чечу́лин; 22 August [O.S. 9 August] 1901, Shostka – 29 October 1981, Moscow) was a Russian Soviet architect, city planner, author, and leading figure of Stalinist architecture.

Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels (Yiddish: שלמה מיכאעלס‎, Russian: Cоломон (Шлойме) Михоэлс, 16 March [O.S. 4 March] 1890 – 13 January 1948) was a Soviet Jewish actor and the artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater.

Nikolay Pavlovich Okhlopkov (Russian: Никола́й Па́влович Охло́пков; 15 May 1900 – 8 January 1967) was a Soviet actor and theatre director who patterned his work after Meyerhold.

Mikayil Alesger oglu Huseynov (Azerbaijani: Mikayıl Ələsgər oğlu Hüseynov; 1905–1992) was a Soviet Azerbaijani architect and historian of architecture, People’s Architect of the USSR (1970), Professor (1939); Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1945), real member of the Academy of Architecture of the USSR (1985), Hero of Socialist Labour (1985), laureate of the Second Class State Stalin Prize (1941), member of England’s and Ireland's Royal Society of Asians.

Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky (Russian: И́горь Влади́мирович Ильи́нский; 24 July 1901 – 13 January 1987) was a famous Russian film and stage actor, director and comedian.

Bruno Arturovich Freindlich (Russian: Бруно Артурович Фрейндлих; 10 October 1909 – 9 July 2002) was a Soviet/Russian actor of German ancestry who became People's Artist of the Soviet Union in 1974.

Lidiya Sukharevskaya (30 August 1909 – 10 October 1991) was a Soviet stage actress and playwright renowned for her work with Nikolay Akimov and Andrey Goncharov.

Alla Konstantinovna Tarasova (Russian: Алла Константиновна Тарасова, 6 February [O.S. 25 January] 1898 in Kiev – 5 April 1973 in Moscow) was a leading actress of Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre from the late 1920s onward.

Yuri Vladimirovich Tolubeyev (Russian: Юрий Владимирович Толубеев, May 1, 1906, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire - December 28, 1979, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet theatrical and cinema actor.

Viktor Ivanovich Khokhryakov (Russian: Виктор Иванович Хохряков; 1913–1986) was a Soviet Russian film actor, theater actor and director.

Kropotkinskaya (Russian: Кропо́ткинская) is a station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line of the Moscow Metro.

Ivan Vladislavovich Zholtovsky (Russian: Иван Владиславович Жолтовский Belarusian: Іван Уладзіслававіч Жалтоўскі, 1867–1959) was a Russian-Soviet architect and educator.

Velta Line (28 August 1923 – 31 December 2012) was a Latvian actress, who worked in the Latvian National Theatre since 1945.

Alexey Nikolayevich Dushkin (24 December 1904 – 8 October 1977) was a Soviet architect, best known for his 1930s designs of Kropotkinskaya and Mayakovskaya stations of Moscow Metro.

Sadiq Alakbar oglu Dadashov (Azerbaijani: Sadıq Ələkbər oğlu Dadaşov) – (1905 – 1946) was an architect and architecture historian of the Soviet Azerbaijan, Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR (1940), laureate of the USSR State Prize of the second Degree (1941).

Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Oltarzhevsky (Russian: Вячеслав Константинович Олтаржевский, 17 March 1880 – 24 April 1966) was a Russian Soviet architect.

Anna Alekseyevna Orochko (Russian: А́нна Алексе́евна Оро́чкo) (14 July 1898 - 26 December 1965) was a Soviet Russian stage and film actress, theatrical director, and acting teacher.

Vera Pashennaya (Russian: Вера Николаевна Пашенная; in marriage – Gribunina; 7 (19) in September 1887, Moscow, Russia – October 28, 1962, Moscow) was a Russian theater and film actor.

Yemelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky (Russian: Емельян Михайлович Ярославский, born Minei Izrailevich Gubelman, Мине́й Изра́илевич Губельма́н; 3 March [O.S. 19 February] 1878 – 4 December 1943) was an ethnic Jewish Russian revolutionary, Communist Party functionary, journalist, and historian.

Eduards Smiļģis (23 November 1886 – 19 April 1966) was a Latvian actor and theatre director.

Yevgeni Alexeyevich Lebedev (Russian: Евгeний Алeксeeвич Лeбeдeв; January 15, 1917, Balakovo – June 9, 1997, St. Petersburg) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, and teacher.

Andrei Lvovich Abrikosov (Russian: Андрей Львович Абрикосов; 14 November 1906 – 21 October 1973) was a Soviet stage and film actor.

Boris Vasilyevich Shchukin (Russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Щу́кин) (April 17 [O.S. April 5] 1894, Moscow - October 7, 1939, Moscow) was a Soviet actor and People's Artist of the USSR (1936).

Boris Alexandrovich Pokrovsky (Russian: Борис Александрович Покровский; 23 January 1912 – 5 June 2009) was a Russian opera director, best known as the stage director of the Bolshoi Theatre between 1943 and 1982.

Nikolay Simonov (December 4, 1901 – April 20, 1973) was a Soviet film and stage actor.

Mariya Ivanovna Babanova (Мария Ивановна Бабанова; 11 November 1900 - 4 April 1983) was the brightest female star of the Moscow stage in the 1920s.

Leonid Vasilyeevich Baratov (Russian: Леонид Васильевич Баратов) (April 1 (O.S. March 20), 1895, Moscow – July 22, 1964, Moscow) was a Soviet opera director and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1958).

Vladimir Belokurov (Russian: Влади́мир Вячесла́вович Белоку́ров; 1904-1973) - was a Soviet Russian film and theater actor and teacher.

Sofia Vladimirovna Giatsintova (Russian: Со′фья Влади′мировна Гиаци′нтова, August 4 (July 23, o.s.), 1895, - April 12, 1982) was a Russian, Soviet film and theatre actress, who worked in the Moscow Art Theatre (1910-1937), the Lenkom Theatre (1938-1957, 1961-1982, where she was the artistic director in 1951-1957), and the Moscow Stanislavsky Drama Theatre (1958-1960).

Kira Golovko, née Ivanova (born 11 March 1919), is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, winner of the Stalin Prize (1947), People's Artist of the RSFSR(1957).

Elena Gogoleva or Yelena Gogoleva (7 April 1900 [O.S. 25 March 1900]– 15 November 1993) was a Soviet film and stage actress, actress of the Maly Theatre in Moscow from 1918 to 1993.

Alexey Nikolayevich Gribov (Russian: Алексей Николаевич Грибов; January 18 (31), 1902 in Moscow, Russian Empire – November 26, 1977 in USSR) was a Soviet actor.

Vladlen Semyonovich Davydov (Russian: Владле́н Семёнович Давы́дов; 1924 - 2012 ) - Soviet and Russian theater and film actor.

Viktor Nikolaevich Dobrovolsky (Russian: Виктор Николаевич Добровольский; Ukrainian: Вiктор Миколайович Добровольський; January 23, 1906– July 28, 1984) - Ukrainian Soviet film and theater actor.

Inna Zubkovskaya (29 November 1923 – 5 February 2001) was a Russian ballerina.

Sulamith Mikhailovna Messerer, OBE (Russian: Сулами́фь Миха́йловна Мессере́р, August 27, 1908, Moscow – June 3, 2004, London) was a Russian ballerina and choreographer who laid the foundations for the classical ballet in Japan.

Olga Vasiliyevna Lepeshinskaya (Russian: Ольга Васильевна Лепешинская; 28 September [O.S. 15 September] 1916 – December 20, 2008) was a Soviet ballerina.

Osip Naumovich Abdulov (Russian: Осип Наумович Абдулов; 16 November 1900 [O.S. 3 November], Łódź – 14 June 1953, Moscow) was a Soviet actor.

Alexandre Tsutsunava (Georgian: ალექსანდრე წუწუნავა; born 28 January [O.S. 16 January] 1881 – 25 October 1955) was a Georgian theatre and film director.

Anatoli Petrovich Ktorov (Russian: Анатолий Петрович Кторов; April 24, 1898 – September 30, 1980) was a famous Russian film and stage actor.

Lutfali Amir oglu Abdullayev (Azerbaijani: Lütfəli Abdullayev) (22 March 1914, Nukha, Elisabethpol Governorate – 9 December 1973, Baku) was an Azerbaijani theatre and film actor.

Vsevolod Aksenov (Russian: Всеволод Николаевич Аксёнов); 1902 - 1960) - was a Soviet theater actor, master of artistic expression.

Anastasia Platonovna Zuyeva (Russian: Анастаси́я Плато́новна Зу́ева; 1896 - 1986) was a Soviet Russian film and stage actress.

Vera Petrovna Maretskaya (Russian: Вера Петровна Марецкая) was a Russian actress.

Boris Andreyevich Babochkin (Russian: Бори́с Андре́евич Ба́бочкин; 18 January 1904 – 17 July 1975) was a well-known Soviet film and theatre actor and director.

Varvara Osipovna Massalitinova (Russian: Варва́ра О́сиповна Массалитинова; July 29, 1878 – October 20, 1945) was a Russian and Soviet theatre and film actress.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Zeldin (Russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Зе́льдин; born 10 February 1915) is a Russian theatre and cinema actor and a centenarian.

Boris Petrovich Chirkov (Russian: Борис Петрович Чирков; 13 August 1901 – 28 May 1982) was a Soviet actor.

Sergei Safonovich Gurzo (Russian: Сергей Сафонович Гурзо; 1926–1974) was a Russian stage and film actor.

Borys Yevhenovych Paton (Ukrainian: Борис Євгенович Патон) (born November 27, 1918) is the long-term chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev (Russian: Игорь Александрович Моисеев; 21 January [O.S. 8 January] 1906 – 2 November 2007) has been widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of character dance, a dance style similar to folk dance but with more professionalism and theatrics.

Dmitriy Feodorovich Ustinov (Russian: Дми́трий Фёдорович Усти́нов; 30 October 1908 – 20 December 1984) was Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death.

Günter Wirths (1 June 1911 – 26 January 2005) was a German chemist who was an authority on uranium production, especially reactor-grade.

Andrei Alekseyevich Popov (Russian: Андрей Алексеевич Попов; 12 April 1918 – 14 June 1983) was a Russian stage actor and film director.

Archbishop Luka (Luke, Russian: Архиепи́скоп Лука́, born Valentin Felixovich Voyno-Yasenetsky, Russian: Валенти́н Фе́ликсович Во́йно-Ясене́цкий; April 27/May 9, 1877 in Kerch – June 11, 1961, Simferopol) was an outstanding surgeon, the founder of purulent surgery, a spiritual writer, a bishop of Russian Orthodox Church, and an archbishop of Simferopol and of the Crimea since May 1946.