Chairman of the Committee for Lenin Prizes in Literature and Art, N. S. Tikhonov, presents a diploma and a medal laureate to the writer M. A. Sholokhov and journalist V. S. Lebedev. There are writers A. Safronov, P. Vershigora, poet V. Inber, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Pravda" P. A. Satyukov, film director S. Bondarchuk, V.V. Monks. Speeches are made by M. A. Sholokhov and Minister of Culture of the USSR E. A. Furtseva (synchronously).