Named prizes and medals of the Russian Academy of Sciences explained

The prizes and gold medals named after prominent scientists (Russian: премии и золотые медали имени выдающихся ученых) are issued by the Russian Academy of Sciences for important scientific works, discoveries and inventions. The awards are issued in the name of the RAS according to the results of contests announced by the RAS Presidium.^[1]

Great Gold Medals

• Lomonosov Gold Medal - ((Great gold medal named after M. V. Lomonosov))
• Pirogov Gold Medal - (Большая золотая медаль имени Н. И. Пирогова (Great gold medal named after N. I. Pirogov)

Mathematics

• Bogolyubov Medal - ((after N. N. Bogolyubov))
• Keldysh Medal - ((after M. V. Keldysh))
• Chebyshev Medal - ((after P. L. Chebyshev))
• Leonard Euler Medal - ((after Leonard Euler))
• I.M. Vinogradov Prize - ((after I. M. Vinogradov, mathematician))
• Kovalevskaya Prize - ((after S. V. Kovalevskaya, mathematician))
• Kolmogorov Prize - ((after A. N. Kolmogorov, mathematician))
• Lavrent'ev Prize - ((after M. A. Lavrent'ev, mathematician))
• Lobachevsky Prize - ((after N. I. Lobachevsky, mathematician))
• Lyapunov Prize - ((after A. M. Lyapunov, mathematician))
• Maltsev Prize - ((after A. I. Maltsev, mathematician))
• Markov Prize - ((after A. A. Markov, mathematician))
• Petrovsky Prize - ((after I. G. Petrovsky, mathematician))

Physical sciences

• S.I. Vavilov Medal - ((after S. I. Vavilov))
• Kapitsa Medal - ((after P. L. Kapitsa))
• Lebedev Medal - ((after P. N. Lebedev))
• Kurchatov Medal - ((after I. V. Kurchatov))
• Landau Gold Medal - ((after L. D. Landau))
• Sakharov Medal - ((after A. D. Sakharov))
• Skobeltsyn Medal - ((after D. V. Skobeltsyn))
• Artsimovich Prize - ((after L. A. Artsimovich, physicist))
• Belopolski Prize - ((after A. A. Belopolsky, astronomer))
• Bredikhin Prize - ((after F. A. Bredikhin, astronomer))
• Veksler Prize - ((after V. I. Veksler, physicist))
• Ioffe Prize - ((after A. F. Ioffe, physicist))
• Mandelstam Prize - ((after L. I. Mandelstam, physicist))
• Rozhdestvensky Prize - ((after D. S. Rozhdestvensky))
• Stoletov Prize - ((after A. G. Stoletov, physicist))
• Tamm Prize - ((after I. E. Tamm, physicist))
• Federov Prize - ((after E. S. Fedorov, mathematician))
• Fock Prize - ((after V. A. Fock, physicist))
• Friedmann Prize - (after A. A. Friedman, physicist))
• Cherenkov Prize - ((after P. A. Cherenkov, physicist))

Information Technology

• Popov Medal - ((after A. P. Popov))
• Krylov Prize - ((after A. N. Krylov, naval engineer))
• S.A. Lebedev Prize - ((after S. A. Lebedev, electrical engineer))
• Raspletin Prize - ((after A. A. Raspletin))

Energy, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics and Control Processes

• Alexandrov Medal - ((after A. P. Alexandrov))
• Korolev Medal - ((after S. P. Korolev))
• Chaplygin Medal - ((after S. A. Chaplygin))
• Andronov Prize - ((Prize named after A. A. Andronov, physicist))
• Krzhizhanovsky Prize - ((after G. M. Krzhizhanovsky, electrical engineer))
• Petrov Prize - ((after B. N. Petrov))
• Tupolev Prize - ((after A. N. Tupolev, aircraft designer))
• Tsander Prize - ((after F. A. Tsander, rocket engineer))
• Tsiolkovsky Prize - ((after K. E. Tsiolkovsky, aeronautics engineer))
• Yablochkov Prize - ((after P. N. Yablochkov, electrical engineer))

Chemistry and Material Science

• Mendeleev Medal - ((after D. I. Mendeleev))
• Semenov Medal - ((after N. N. Semenov, chemist))
• Kurnakov Medal - ((after N. S. Kurnakov))
• Chernov Medal - ((after D. K. Chernov))
• Anosov Prize - ((after P. P. Anosov, mining engineer))
• Balandin Prize - ((after A. A. Balandin, electrical engineer))
• Bardin Prize - ((after I. P. Bardin, metallurgist))
• Bochvar Prize - ((after A. A. Bochvar))
• Butlerov Prize - ((after A. M. Butlerov, chemist))
• Grebenshchikov Prize - ((after I. V. Grebenshchikov))
• Zelinsky Prize - ((after N. D. Zelinsky, chemist))
• Ipatyev Prize - ((after V. N. Ipatyev, chemist))
• Kargin Prize - ((after V. A. Kargin))
• Koptyuga Prize - ((after V. A. Koptyuga, chemist))
• Lebedev Prize - ((after S. V. Lebedev, chemist))
• Nesmeyanov Prize - ((after A. N. Nesmeyanov, chemist))
• Rebinder Prize - ((after P. A. Rebinder))
• Khlopin Prize - ((after V. G. Khlopin, nuclear physicist))
• Chugaev Prize - ((after L. A. Chugaev, chemist))

Biology

• Bekhterev Medal - ((after V. M. Bekhterev))
• Pavlov Medal - ((after I. P. Pavlov))
• Sechenov Medal - ((after I. M. Sechenov))
• Engelhardt Medal - ((after V. A. Engelhardt))
• Vavilov Medal - ((after N. I. Vavilov))
• Dokucgaev Medal - ((after V. V. Dokuchaev))
• Baev Prize - ((after A. A. Baev))
• Bach Prize - ((after A. N. Bach))
• Belozersky Prize - ((after A. N. Belozersky, biologist))
• Winogradsky Prize - ((after S. N. Vinogradsky microbiologist))
• Kovalevsky Prize - ((after A. O. Kovalevsky, embryologist))
• Koltsov Prize - ((after N. K. Koltsov, biologist))
• Komorov Prize - ((after V. L. Komarov, botanist))
• Metchnikov Prize - ((after I. I. Mechnikov, zoologist))
• Ovchinnikov Prize - ((after Yu. A. Ovchinnikov, biochemist))
• Orbeli Prize - ((after L. A. Orbeli, physiologist))
• Pavlovsky Prize - ((after E. N. Pavlovsky, zoologist))
• Prianishkov Prize - ((after D. N. Prianishnikov))
• Severtsov Prize - ((after A. . Severtsov))
• Scriabin Prize - ((after K. I. Scriabin, parasitologist))
• Sukachev Prize - ((after V. N. Sukachev, geobotanist))
• Timiryazev Prize - ((after K. A. Timiryazev, botanist))
• Ukhtomsky Prize - ((after A. A. Ukhtomsky, physiologist))
• Shemyakin Prize - ((after M. M. Shemyakin))
• Schmalhausen Prize - ((after I. I. Schmalhausen, zoologist))

Earth Sciences

• Vernadsky Medal - ((after V. I. Vernadsky))
• Karpinsky Medal - ((after A. P. Karpinsky))
• Berg Medal - ((Gold medal named after L. S. Berg))
• Arkhangelsky Prize - ((after A.A. Arkhangelsky, geologist))
• A.P. Vinogradov Prize - ((after A. P. Vinogradov, geochemist))
• Golitsyn Prize - ((after B. B. Golitsyn, physicist))
• Grigoriev Prixe - ((after A. A. Grigoriev))
• Gubkin Prize - ((after I. M. Gubkin, geologist))
• Korzhinsky Prize - ((after D. S. Korzhinsky))
• Makarov Prize - ((after S. O. Makarov, oceanographer))
• Melnikov Prize - ((after N. V. Melnikov))
• Obruchev Prize - ((after V. A. Obruchev, geologist))
• Savarensky Prize - ((after F. P. Savarensky))
• Smirnov Prize - ((after S. S. Smirnov, geologist))
• Fersman Prize - ((after A. E. Fersman, geochemist))
• Shatsky Prize - ((after Nikolay Shatsky, geologist))
• Schmidt Prize - ((after O. Yu. Schmidt, mathematician))

Social science

• Speransky Medal - ((after M. M. Speransky, political advisor))
• Vargi Prize - ((after E. S. Vargi, economist))
• Kantorovich Prize - ((after L. V. Kantorovich, mathematician))
• M.M. Kovalevsky Prize - ((after M. M. Kovalevsky, sociologist))
• Kondratiev Prize - ((after N. D. Kondratiev, economist))
• Koni Prize - ((after A. F. Koni))
• Martens Prize - ((after F. F. Martens, jurist))
• Nemchinov Prize - ((after V. S. Nemchinov, economist))
• Plekhanov Prize - ((after G. V. Plekhanov, Marxist theoretician))
• Rubinstein Prize - ((after S. L. Rubinstein))
• Tarle Prize - ((after E. V. Tarle, historian))
• Chayanov Prize - ((after A. V. Chayanov, economist))

History and philology

• Dal Medal - ((after V. I. Dal))
• Solovyov Medal - ((after S. M. Solovyov, historian))
• Veselovsky Prize - ((after A. N. Veselovsky, literary theorist))
• Zabelin Prize - ((after I. E. Zabelin, historian))
• Kareev Prize - ((after N. I. Kareev))
• Klyuchevsky Prize - ((after V. O. Klyuchevsky, historian))
• Likhachev Prize - ((after D. S. Likhachev, linguist))
• Miklukho-Maclay Prize - ((after N. N. Miklukho-Maclay, biologist))
• Oldenburg Prize - ((after S. F. Oldenburg))
• Pushkin Prize - ((after A. S. Pushkin, poet))
• Shakhmatov Prize - ((after A. A. Shakhmatov, historian))

Notes and References

1. http://www.ras.ru/about/awards/medalsandprizes.aspx Prizes and medals named after prominent scientists