Chairman of the Committee of the Lenin Prize in literature and art NS Tikhonov presents a diploma and a medal winner writer Sholokhov and journalist VS Lebedev. Present writers Safronov, P. Vershigora, poet V. Inber, editor in chief of the newspaper "Pravda" PA Satyukov, filmmaker S. Bondarchuk. Speeches appear MA Sholokhov and Minister of Culture of the USSR EA Furtseva (synchronously).