Medal of Pushkin

The Pushkin Medal (Russian Медаль Пушкина ) is a state medal of Russia.

Purpose

The Pushkin Medal is awarded " for achievements in the field of culture, education, the humanities, literature and art, for a great contribution to the study and preservation of cultural heritage, the approximation and mutual cultural enrichment of nations and peoples ".

The award was created on 9 May 1999 by the first President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin.

Description of the coin

The Pushkin Medal is made ​​of solid silver. She has a round shape with a diameter of 32 mm with curved edge on both sides. On the front you will find in the middle of the signature of Alexander Pushkin as a relief, including the number of the coin. The reverse of the medal bears the profile of the Russian national poet Pushkin, a self-portrait from 1823.

The medal is worn on a 24 -millimeter-wide ribbon of blue moire silk with a golden longitudinal strips whose width is 2.5 mm and is from the right edge of the strip 5 millimeters away.

Not to be confused is the State Pushkin Medal of the Russian Federation:

  • The Alexander Pushkin Prize for writers who publish in the Russian language, which was awarded by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation (1989-2005),
  • Pushkin Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1881-1990),
  • The Pushkin Medal from the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature MAPRYAL (since 1979).

Medals carrier in German-speaking

Germany:

  • 2013 Christoph Stölzl, President of the Academy of Music Franz Liszt Weimar
  • 2013 Karl Schlogel, historian and writer
  • 2013 Beate teaching Metzger, author (documentary No comrades )
  • 2008 Gabriele Krone-Schmalz, television journalist and author
  • 2008 Prof. Dr. Dr. H.C. Wolf Schmid
  • 2007 Karl -Eugen Engler, mayor of the spa of Badenweiler
  • 2007, Dr. H.C. Hans -Joachim Schlegel, film scholar, translator and publicist
  • 2007 Heinz Setzer, director of the Literary Museum " Chekhov Salon" in Badenweiler
  • 2006 Hermann Falk, head of the concert agency Canticles
  • 2006 Jochen Hahn, general director of theaters and concert agency " Hahn Production"
  • 2006 Friedrich superheater, translator
  • 2006 Robert Leonardi, artistic director of the International Music Festival Saar
  • 2006 Volker Neumann, Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair
  • 2006 Susanne Reidel, a high school teacher for Russian Language and Literature, Berlin
  • 2006 Joachim Sartorius, festival director, Berlin
  • 2006 Christina Weiss, Minister of State for Culture

Austria:

  • 2007 Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Eismann, director of the Institute of Slavic Studies, Graz

Switzerland:

  • 2009 Werner Stauffacher, founder of the Cooperation Council Switzerland / Russia

Liechtenstein:

  • 2007 Eduard von folding fine, Russian baron, entrepreneur, journalist and sports

A total of exactly 754 Pushkin medals were awarded from 1999 to December 2012.

Eduard von Falz-Fein
666057
de