List of awards received by Nikolay Basov

Highest decoration awarded by the soviet union

The Order of the Patriotic War is an image of a convex five-pointed star covered with ruby-red enamel against the background of rays diverging in the form of a five-pointed polished star, the ends of which are placed between the ends of the red star.

Hero of Socialist Labor - a state award in the USSR, the highest degree of distinction for labor from 1938 to 1991.

The Lenin Prize (Leninskaya premiya) was one of the most prestigious awards of the Soviet Union for accomplishments relating to science, literature, arts, architecture, and technology.

The USSR State Prize (Russian: romanized: Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor. It was established on 9 September 1966. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the prize was followed up by the State Prize of the Russian Federation.

two Lomonosov Grand Gold Medals are awarded annually - one to a Russian and one to a foreign scientist for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences and humanities. The Expert Commission is under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.