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Dmitry Likhachov

Russian philologist (1906-1999) · Russia · On the map · Academics · Died at 92

Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev was a Russian medievalist, linguist, and an inmate of Gulag. During his lifetime, Likhachev was considered the world's foremost scholar of the Old Russian language and its literature.

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1999Died30 September 1999Pushkin MedalAwardState Prize of the Russian FederationAward1998Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-CalledAward1997Prize of the President of the Russian FederationAward1996Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd classAward1993Lomonosov Gold MedalAwardState Prize of the Russian FederationAward1986Hero of Socialist LabourAwardOrder of LeninAward1982Honorary Doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne UniversityAward1969USSR State PrizeAward1966Order of the Red Banner of LabourAward1952Stalin Prize, 2nd degreeAward1906Born15 November 1906

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Pushkin Medal1999
State Prize of the Russian Federation1999
Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called1998
Prize of the President of the Russian Federation1997
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class1996
State Prize of the Russian Federation1993
Lomonosov Gold Medal1993
Order of Lenin1986
Hero of Socialist Labour1986
Honorary Doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University1982
USSR State Prize1969
Order of the Red Banner of Labour1966
Stalin Prize, 2nd degree1952
Stalin Prize
Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"
Medal "For Labour Valour"
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
VDNKh gold medal
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"
Order of Stara Planina
Order of the cavalier of Madara
Order of Georgi Dimitrov
Order of Cyril and Methodius
Honorary Citizen of Saint Petersburg
Medal VDNKh

About this person

Country
Russia
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1906 to 1999 · aged 92

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