- Awarded for
- Outstanding achievements in science, literature, arts, and architecture
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Formerly called
- State Stalin Prize (1941–1956)
- Reward
- 5,000 Soviet rubles (from 1967)
- Established
- 9 September 1966 ; 59 years ago ( 9 September 1966 )
- Final award
- 1991 ; 35 years ago ( 1991 )
- Next higher
- Lenin Prize
- Equivalent
- State Prize of the Russian Federation
- Next lower
- Lenin Komsomol Prize