The All-Union Conductors Competition was a competition among musical conductors in the Soviet Union from 1938 to 1988.
It took place in Moscow for its first time in 1938 when a set of prizes were awarded by a jury chaired by Samuil Samosud and including Nikolai Myaskovsky, Heinrich Neuhaus, Alexander Goldenweiser, Aleksandr Gauk, Dmitri Kabalevsky amongst other relevant musicians.
[1] From 1966 to 1988, the competition took place regularly averaging about one event per five years.