page_title: Nikolay Aleksandrovich Mukhin
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: Nikolay Aleksandrovich Mukhin / Awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Aufriss und Mosaikflächen Dom des Heiligen Sava
context_page_description: Nikolai Aleksandrovich Mukhin is a Soviet and Russian iconographer and sculptor. Mukhin is member of the Russian Academy of Arts and People's Artist of the Russian Federation. He established an icon art colony in his hometown of Yaroslavl. His main works are the frescos of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow and his principal work on the mosaics in the Church of Saint Sava in Belgrade, which after completion will form the biggest mosaic ensemble ever executed.
context_section_description: He is academician of the Academy of Arts (2000 ; Corresponding Member 1997). People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2005). Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2011). Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR since 1985.
  Mukhin was given the title People's Artist of the Russian Federation in 2005, he received among others the state decoration of the Order of Friendship and from the Russian Orthodox Church the Order of Saint Sergius of Radonezh III degree(Russian: Орден преподобного Сергия Радонежского) (1999) and the Andrei Rublev Medail. The Serbian Orthodox Church awarded him the Order of the Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Cantasina I Catherine I degree. The Russian Academy of Arts awarded him the gold medal of arts in 2000.
  In the appreciation of his laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, it was stated that Mukhin is One of Russia’s leading monumental artists, icon painter and sculptor, Mr Mukhin essentially revived in Russia the traditions of church art that had been lost during the Soviet period.
  To his mosaic decoration of the st. Sava Cathedral, the president of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli, noted at the meeting of the presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts the cultural value of the ongoing project and emphasized the special significance of the monument not only for the entire Christian world, but also for world art in general. He expressed the hope that the colossal work of authors and mosaic artists would not remain without recognition, and in the future the decoration of the church of st. Sava in Belgrade could serve as a standard for both contemporaries and future generations.
caption: Surface areas of the mosaic cladding in the church add to more than 6000 m² with the dome (1230 ²) and the four conchs (each 270 m²) covering the single  biggest spaces
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