[1] He served in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War from 1920 to July 1922.

[1] Novikov became head of the Department of Analysis at the Moscow State Teachers Training Institute in 1944.

He was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1957 for proving the undecidability of the word problem in groups.

The State Prize of the Russian Federation was awarded to Novikov posthumously in 1999.

[1] Their son Sergei Novikov (1938–2024) became the first Soviet mathematician to receive the Fields Medal.