- known as
- composer, conductor, music educator, songwriter, musician, choir director, film score composer
- degrees
- Doctor of Sciences in History of art, 1940
- awards
- State Stalin Prize, 1st degree, 1950, Order of Lenin, 1949, Hero of Socialist Labour, 1975, Order of the October Revolution, 1985, People's Artist of the USSR, 1958, Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, 1985, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1964, Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class, 1982, Medal "For Battle Merit", 1953, Medal "For Distinguished Labour", 1939, Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands", Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", People's Artist of the RSFSR, 1948, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, 1944, Lenin Prize, 1978, Medal "For the Defence of Moscow", Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", 1970, Medal "For Impeccable Service", 1st class, Order of 9 September 1944, Order of the Red Banner, Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR, 1985, Medal "For Impeccable Service", 2nd class, Medal "For Impeccable Service", 3rd class, Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR, 1985, Order of Lenin, 1967, Order of Lenin, 1975, Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy", Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Badge "25 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"
- member of
- Union of Soviet Composers
- notable works
- Anthem of Transnistria, Wedding in Malinovka
