The Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR (Государственная премия РСФСР имени М.И. Глинки) was a prize awarded to musicians of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1965–1991. The prize was named in honour of Russian composer Mikhail Glinka.
Partial list of recipients 1965 Valery Gavrilin (composer) 1966 Lev Oborin (pianist) 1968 Borodin Quartet (string quartet): inc. Dmitri Shebalin (viola) 1974 Dmitri Shostakovich 1979 Tikhon Khrennikov (composer) 1979 Vladislav Sokolov (choral conductor) 1981 Alexander Voroshilo (baritone) 1981 Viktor Tretiakov (violin) 1987 Shostakovich Quartet inc. Aleksandr Galkovsky (viola), Alexander Korchagin (cello) 1991 Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone), Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev (ballet dancers)
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External links Glinka singing competition (конкурс певцов имени М.И. Глинки ) - as won by Dmitri Hvorostovsky in 1987