==Awards==;Competition prizes* First Prize, All-Union Competition in Tbilisi (1988)* Silver Medal, 8th International Bach Competition in Leipzig (1988)* Second Prize, Rachmaninov Competition in Moscow (1990)* Best pianist, International Summer Academy "Mozarteum" in Salzburg, Austria (1992)* Silver Medal, 10th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1994);Other awards* Ernest Neizvestny Private Charity Fund Award (1994)* International Terence Judd Award (1995)* Diapason d'Or (2000, 2001 and 2002)* Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (2003)* Named "Honoured Citizen of Ivanovka" in Tambov, Russia (2004)* Named "Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation" (2005)* Echo Klassik Award (2005)* Echo Klassik Award (2007)* BBC Music Magazine Award (2011)* Echo Klassik Award (2013)* People’s Artist of Russia (2013)==Notes====References==*http://www.russianarts.org/rno/nlugansky.cfm*http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/07/22/bmlug22.xml*http://www.altamusica.com/entretiens/document.php?action=MoreDocument&DocRef=295&DossierRef=183==External links==*The Nikolai Lugansky Website*Harrison Parrott Artist and Project Management
Sodeloval je s priznanimi dirigenti kot so: Paavo Berglund, Riccardo Chailly,Vladmir Fedoseyev,Valery Gergiev, Yoel Levi, Sir Charles Mackerras, Kent Nagano, Michel Plasson, Mikhail Pletnev, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Leonard Slatkin, Yuri Temirkanov in Edo de Waart.