The Russian academy of science rewards the sciensists for the outstanding scientific achievments with gold medals and prizes named in honour of prominent scientists in compliance with The gold medals and prizes statute in result of a competition among scientific works proposed.
The scientist rewarded with the medal or prize gaines the certan advantige.
The scientist are rewarded in the fields of knowledges:
for outstanding achivments in sphere of natural sciences and humanities - The large gold medal of Russian academy of science named in honour of M.Lomonosov (two medals in year: one - for russian, another - for foreign scientist);
in sphere of mathematics - the gold medals named in honour of P.Chebishev, L.Euler, M.Keldish, the prizes named in honour of A.Kolmogorov, S.Kovalevskaja, M.Lavrent`ev, A.Ljapunov, N.Lobachevskii, A.Mal`tsev, A.Markov, I.Petrovskii, I.Vinogradov;
in sphere of general physics and astronomy - the gold medals named in honour of P.Kapitsa, P.Lebedev, S.Vavilov, the prizes named in honour of L.Artsimovich, A.Belopol`skii, F.Bredihin, E.Fedorov, V.Fok, A.Ioffe, L.Mandel`shtam, D.Rozjdestvenskii, A.Stoletov;
in sphere of nuclear phisics - the gold medals named in honour of I.Kurchatov, L.Landau, A.Sakharov, the prizes named in honour of A.Fridman, I.Tamm, V.Veksler;
in sphere of energetics - the prizes named in honour of P.Jablochkov, G.Krzjizjanovskii;
in sphere of mechanics - the gold medals named in honour of .Chapligin, S.Korolev, the prizes named in honour of A.Andronov, B.Petrov, F.Tsander, K.Tsialkovskii, A.Tupolev;
in sphere of informatics - the gold medal
named in honour of A.Popov,
the prizes named in honour of A.Krilov, S.Lebedev, A.Raspletin;
in sphere of general chemistry - the gold
medals named in honour of D.Mendeleev, N.Semjonov,
the prizes named in honour of A.Balandin, A.Butlerov,V.Ipat`ev, V.Kargin,
V.Khlopin, S.Lebedev, A.Nesmejanov,P.Rebinder, N.Zelinskii;
in sphere of phisical chemistry - the gold medals named in honour of D.Chernov, N.Kurnakov, the prizes named in honour of P.Anosov, I.Bardin, L.Chugaev, I.Grebentchikov;
in sphere of biochemistry - the gold medal
named in honour of V.Engel`gardt,
the prizes named in honour of A.Bakh, A.Belozerskii, N.Kol`tsov, J.Ovchinnikov,
D.Prjanishnikov, K.Timirjazev, M.Shemjakin, S.Vinogradskii;
in sphere of general biology - the gold
medals named in honour of V.Dokuchaev, N.Vavilov,
the prizes named in honour of V.Komarov, A.Kovalevskii, I.Mechnikov, E.Pavlovskii,
A.Severtsov, I.Shmal`gauzen, K.Skrjabin, V.Sukachov;
in sphere of physiology - the gold medals
named in honour of V.Bekhterev, I.Pavlov, I.Sechenov,
the prizes named in honour of L.Orbeli, A.Ukhtomskii;
in sphere of geology - the gold medals
named in honour of A.Karpinskii, V.Vernadskii,
the prizes named in honour of A.Arkhangel`skii, A.Fersman, B.Golitsin,
I.Gubkin, D.Korzjinskii, N.Mel`nikov, V.Obruchev, N.Shatskii, S.Smirnov,
A.Vinogradov;
in sphere of geography - the gold medal
named in honour of L.Berg,
the prizes named in honour of A.Grigor`ev, S.Makarov, F.Savarenskii, O.Shmidt;
in sphere of history - the gold medal named
in honour of S.Solov`jev,
the prizes named in honour of I.Zabelin, N.Kareev, V.Kljuchevskoi, N.Miklukho-Maklai,
S.Ol`denburg;
in sphere of philosophy, sociology, psychology
and law - the gold medal named in honour of M.Speranskii,
the prizes named in honour of A.Koni, M.Kovalevskii, F.Martens, G.Plekhanov,
S.Rubinshtejn;
in sphere of economy - the prizes named in honour of A.Chajanov, L.Kantorovich, N.Kondrat`ev, V.Nemchinov;
in sphere of international relations - the prizes named in honour of E.Tarle, E.Varga;
in sphere of literature and language -
the gold medal named in honour of V.Dal`,
the prizes named in honour of A.Pushkin, A.Shakhmatov, A.Veselovskii.