- known as
- literary historian, literary scholar, storyteller, writer, television presenter, short story writer, critic, explorer, prose writer, philologist, presenter
- degrees
- Doctor of Sciences in Philology
- awards
- USSR State Prize, 1967, People's Artist of the USSR, 1982, Order of Lenin, 1978, Order of the Red Star, 1943, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1968, Order of Friendship of Peoples, 1984, Lenin Prize, 1976, Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, 1959, Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, 1985, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of the Patriotic War, 1985, Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Golden Calf, 1984
- member of
- USSR Union of Writers