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Awards and Commemorations

He was awarded the title of Honored Art Workers of the Russian Republic. In addition to the Lenin Prize, he was given the Stalin Prize in 1941. Pogodin was also awarded the State Prize of the Soviet Union (Stalinskaya Premia) of the second category in 1951.

Petropavlovsk is one of the first cities in Kazakhstan to have a theatrical life. The Pogodin Russian Drama Theater was erected in 1906. In 1934, the name of the "Pravada" newspaper Nickolai Pogodin appeared for the first time in the Petropavlovsk playbill featuring his play "My Friend". Evacuated artists from surrounding theaters arrived to Petropavlovsk in 1941. The theater was named after the Lenin prized playwright in 1962. In 1972, the theater moved into a modern building located in Teatralnaya Square .The mission of the Russian Theater, named after Pogodin, never ran out of artistically challenging plays. From the first day of its existence, the theater became a link between Kazakh and Russian cultures, by facilitating their interaction and mutual enrichment. The theater takes pride in upholding the standards of creativity in the region and preserving the moral and aesthetic values through its theater productions.