| 1944 | Labour Red Banner Order (USSR) |
| 1945 | Lenin Order (USSR) |
| 1953 | Labour Red Banner Order (USSR) |
| 1956 | Janssen Medal of the French Astronomical Society |
| 1958 | Lenin Order (USSR) |
| 1960 | Catherine Bruce gold medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP, USA) |
| 1960 | Gold medal of the UK Royal Astronomical Society |
| 1960 | Medal “For Labour Valour” (USSR) |
| 1968 | Hero of Socialist Labour (with Lenin Order and Gold medal “Hammer and Sickle”) |
| 1969 | Cyril & Mefodiy Order of I degree by Presidium of the National Assembly of Bulgaria |
| 1970 | Gold medal of the Slovak Academy of Sciences |
| 1970 | S.I. Vavilov medal by the Presidium of Administration of the All-Union Society “Knowledge” |
| 1971 | Helmholtz medal by the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (GDR) |
| 1971 | M.V. Lomonosov Gold medal, the highest award of the USSR Academy of Sciences |
| 1973 | Order of “Service” of the III degree by the Government of Poland |
| 1974 | Kotenius Gold medal by the German Academy of Naturalists (“Leopoldina”) in Halle (GDR) |
| 1974 | Lenin Order (USSR) |
| 1974 | Sarmiento medal by the Cordoba (Argentina) Academy of Sciences |
| 1975 | Order of “Banner” of Hungary |
| 1978 | Hero of Socialist Labour (with Lenin Order and Gold medal “Hammer and Sickle”) |
| 1983 | October Revolution Order (USSR) |
| 1984 | Gold medal of the Academy of Sciences of Czechoslovakia |
| 1988 | Order of “Honour” (USSR) |
| 1994 | George Gamow prize and medal of the Russian Academy of Creativity |
| 1994 | Viktor Ambartsumian medal from Armenian Engineers and Scientists of Armenia (AESA) |
