I International Tchaikovsky Competition

USSR. Moscow. April 14, 1958. Soviet violinist Valery Aleksandrovich Klimov, who was awarded a gold medal and a laureate diploma, and the chairman of the competition's organizing committee, Soviet composer Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich (second from right) during the awards ceremony for the laureates of the 1st International Tchaikovsky Piano and Violin Competition in the Great Hall of the Conservatory. Nikolai Rakhmanov/TASS