in 1960 he became the Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences). In 1961 he became an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 1976, he became an Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Mathematics Division). From 1950 to 1960 he was the Head of the Geometry Department at Kharkiv State University. From 1960 to 2000 he was the Head of the Geometry Division at the Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Since 2000 he lived in Moscow and worked at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics. He died on December 17, 2002, and was buried in Moscow at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery. Honors In 2015, one of the streets in Kharkiv was named after Academician A.V. Pogorelov. In 2007, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine founded the Pogorelov Award for the achievements in the field of geometry and topology. One of the asteroids is named after A.V. Pogorelov: . Awards The Stalin Prize of the Second Level (1950) for works on the theory of convex surfaces, presented in the paper "Uniquely Definition of Convex Surfaces" and in a series of papers published in "Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences" (1948-1949) Lenin Prize (1962) – for the results in geometry "in the large" Lobachevsky International Prize (1959) - for the paper "Some questions of geometry in the large in Riemannian space" The Krylov Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1973) The State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR (1974) N. N. Bogolubov Prize of the NAS of Ukraine (1998) The State Prize of Ukraine (2005) Two Lenin Orders Order of the Labor Banner Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree (06.04.1985) Scientific interests By the beginning of the 20th century, the methods for solving of local problems related to regular surfaces were developed. By the thirties, there were developed the methods for solving the problems in geometry "in the large". These methods were related mainly to the theory of partial differential equations. Mathematicians were helpless when surfaces were non-smooth (for example, with conical points, ribbed points, etc.) and when the intrinsic geometry was given not by a smooth positive definite quadratic form, but simply by a metric space of a fairly general form. A breakthrough in the study of non-smooth metrics and non-smooth surfaces was made