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Twice the Hero of Socialist Labour
The Deputy of the USSR Supreme Council of the I-XI convocations.
The Secretary of the Administrative Body of the USSR Union of Writers from 1967 till 1984.
The Full Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

The Laureate of:
the Nobel Prize
the Lenin Prize
the USSR State Prize
the International Prize of Peace in the field of literature of the World Peace Union
the International literature prize “Sofia”
the Literature prize “Gold Ear” (Poland)
the International “Lotus Prize” of the Writers’ Association of Asia and Africa.

The Honorary Doctor
of Philology (the Rostov State University)
of Philosophy (the Leipzig Karl Marx University)
of Law (the Saint-Andrews University, Scotland)

M.A. Sholokhov is awarded with:
- six Orders of Lenin
- the Order of the October Revolution
- the Order of the Great Patriotic War of the first degree

with medals:
- “For Defending Moscow”
- “For Defending Stalingrad”
- “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”
- “For Valorous Labour in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”
- “Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”
- Gold medal named after A.A. Fadeyev
- Gold medal “To Fighter for Peace”.
- Order of “Big Gold Star of Peoples’ Friendship” (the German Democratic Republic)
- Order of Sukhe-Bator (Mongolia)
- Order of Georghiy Dimitrov (Bulgaria)
- Order of “Kirill and Mefodiy” of the first degree (Bulgaria).