Pushkin Medal

• Name — Medal of Pushkin • Presenter — Russian Federation • Type — State Decoration • Eligibility — Citizens of the Russian Federation and foreign nationals • Awarded For — Achievements in the arts and culture, education, humanities and literature • Status — Active • Established — May 9, 1999 • Firstawarded — June 4, 1999 • Total Awarded — 1065 • Higher — Medal of Nesterov • Lower — Medal "Defender of a Free Russia" • Caption2 — Ribbon of the Medal of Pushkin • Illustration — Reverse of the Medal of Pushkin

The Medal of Pushkin was established on May 9, 1999, by Presidential Decree No. 574, its statute was amended on September 7, 2010, by Presidential Decree No. 1099 which completely revamped the awards and honours system of the Russian Federation.

The Medal of Pushkin is awarded to citizens of the Russian Federation with at least 20 years in socio-humanitarian activities for achievements in the arts and culture, education, humanities and literature, for great contributions to the study and preservation of the Russian cultural heritage, in the rapprochement and mutual enrichment of cultures of nations and peoples, for the creation of highly artistic images. The Russian Federation order of precedence dictates the medal is to be worn on the left breast with other medals immediately after the Medal of Nesterov.

• Number of awards of the Medal of Pushkin to 2025: • 1999 — 2000 — 2001 — 2002 — 2003 — 2004 — 2005 — 2006 — 2007 — 2008 — 2009 — 2010 — 2011 — 2012 — 2013 — 2014 — 2015 — 2016 — 2017 — 2018 — 2019 — 2020 — 2021 — 2022 — 2023 — 2024 — 2025 — Total • 61 — 76 — 45 — 31 — 26 — 27 — 16 — 53 — 153 — 60 — 34 — 52 — 44 — 79 — 48 — 23 — 33 — 32 — 37 — 27 — 21 — 8 — 17 — 23 — 22 — 8 — 8 — 1065 • Natalia Y. Borodin, director of the Pushkin school in Novomoskovsk, Tula Region, received two Medals of Pushkin – 1999 and 2000. • The Medal of Pushkin was also awarded to citizens of the following states: Abkhazia, Afghanistan, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mali, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, South Ossetia, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Syria, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, USA, and Vietnam. • Many heads of state were also awarded the Medal of Pushkin. A medal awarded to Ian Blatchford in 2015, and personally presented by Vladimir Putin, was returned in March 2022, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

There is also the A.S. Pushkin Medal that is a non-governmental award established in 1977 by the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature, and its awarding began in 1979. it is an international public award given "for great services in the dissemination of the Russian language".