The USSR State Prize (Russian: Государственная премия СССР, romanized: Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor.

The State Stalin Prize (Государственная Сталинская премия, Gosudarstvennaya Stalinskaya premiya), usually called the Stalin Prize, existed from 1941 to 1956.

In 1944 and 1945, the last two years of the Second World War, the award ceremonies for the Stalin Prize were not held.

[1] USSR State Prize of 1st, 2nd and 3rd degrees was awarded annually to individuals in the fields of science, mathematics, literature, arts, and architecture to honor the most prominent achievements which either advanced the Soviet Union or the cause of socialism.

The latter was created on 21 December 1949 and was usually awarded to foreign recipients rather than to Soviet citizens.