Handing in the USSR Ministry of Culture Honorary Diploma of the French Academy of gramophone records of Charles Cros Soviet composer Dmitry Shostakovich and the staff of the Moscow Academic Musical Theater of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, for recording of the opera "Katerina Ismailova, made at the Melodia. The diploma gives the head of the Paris firm gramophone "Shang Du Monde, Jean Ruar. Speech at the ceremony of Shostakovich and CEO of the firm "Melody" N. Mokhov. Among those present composer Rodion Shchedrin, performer Party Catherine Izmailova in the opera singer, E. Andreeva, and others.