City of Moscow. June 17, 1959. Chairman of the Committee of the Lenin Prize in literature and art at the Council of Ministers of the USSR AN Tikhonov presents diplomas and plaques Lenin Prize in the hall of the Central House of Artists. Among the winners: NF Pogodin, YI Solntseva (awarded a prize of her husband - APDovjenko, awarded posthumously), AN Kibalnikov, AI Khachaturian, M. Strauch, B. Smirnov. Among those present: N. Mikhailov, Toporkov, ED Turchaninova, KA Fedin, B. Johanson, Shostakovich, G. L. Roshal, I. Skobtseva, A . K. Tarasov, BN Livanov, MI Zharov, and others.