Editing Pyotr Novikov (section)

== Awards and honors ==
Novikov was elected a corresponding member and then a full member of the [[Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union]] in 1953 and 1960, respectively.

He was awarded the [[Lenin Prize]] in 1957 for [[mathematical proof|proving]] the [[undecidable problem|undecidability]] of the word problem in groups.<ref>S. I. Adian, ''Mathematical logic, the theory of algorithms and the theory of sets'', AMS Bookstore, 1977, {{ISBN|0-8218-3033-3}}, p. 26. (being Novikov's Festschrift on the occasion of his seventieth birthday)</ref> 

He received the [[Order of Lenin]] in 1961 and again in 1971. He was awarded the [[Order of the Red Banner of Labour]]. The [[State Prize of the Russian Federation]] was awarded to Novikov posthumously in 1999.{{cn|date=June 2024}}