All-Union Conductors Competition

The All-Union Conductors Competition was a competition among musical conductors in the Soviet Union from 1938 to 1988. It took place in Moscow for its first time in 1938 when a set of prizes were awarded by a jury chaired by Samuil Samosud and including Nikolai Myaskovsky, Heinrich Neuhaus, Alexander Goldenweiser, Aleksandr Gauk, Dmitri Kabalevsky amongst other relevant musicians. From 1966 to 1988, the competition took place regularly averaging about one event per five years.

1938: I edition

 * Yevgeny Mravinsky (first prize)
 * Natan Rakhlin (second prize)
 * Alexander Melik-Pashayev (second prize)
 * Konstantin Ivanov (third prize)
 * Marcos Paverman (fourth prize)
 * Kiril Kondrashin (diploma)

1966: II edition

 * Yuri Temirkanov (first prize)
 * Aleksandr Dmitriyev
 * Fuat Mansurov
 * Yuri Simonov
 * Daniel Tyulin
 * Maxim Shostakovich

1971: III edition

 * Alexander Lazarev
 * Waldemar Nelson

1976: IV edition

 * Valery Gergiev

1983: V edition

 * Gintaras Rinkevičius

1988: VI edition

 * Alexander Polianichko (first prize)
 * Alexander Polishchuk (third prize)
 * Rashid Skuratov (third prize)