- known as
- ballet dancer, choreographer, actor, dancer, ballet teacher
- awards
- State Stalin Prize, 1st degree, 1941, Order of Lenin, 1953, Hero of Socialist Labour, 1974, People's Artist of the USSR, 1951, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1939, Order of Friendship of Peoples, 1986, Order of the Badge of Honour, 1940, Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad", Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", VDNKh gold medal, 1971, People's Artist of the RSFSR, 1940, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, 1939, Lenin Prize, 1957, Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow", Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of Parasat, 1995, Medal "Veteran of Labour", People's Artist of Kazakh SSR, 1943, Order of Lenin, 1970, Order of Lenin, 1974, Order of Lenin, 1980, Hero of Socialist Labour, 1980, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1951, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1959, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1967, Order of Cyril and Methodius, 1968, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, 1992, State Stalin Prize, 1st degree, 1946, State Stalin Prize, 1st degree, 1947, Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, 1950, Golden Mask, 1995, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", honorary citizen of Moscow, 1997, Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland, 1958, Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad", Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Prize of the President of the Russian Federation, 1997, Honorary Diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, 1976
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1961, Academy of Arts, Berlin, from 1959
