Unions of Composers. She was named a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990. Her name was given to Asteroid # 1889, registered by the planetary centre in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Personal life In 1956, Pakhmutova married an actor and poet Nikolai Dobronravov. He was assigned by the radio officials to work with her as a lyricist on a children's tune "Little Motor Boat" (Lodochka motornaya). They have written a lot of songs for children but the couple didn't have children of their own. Compositions Songs (Pakhmutova is accredited with composing over 500 individual songs and thus, only the most well-known are listed here) "Надежда" ("Nadezhda") "Песня о тревожной молодости" ("Song Of Restless Youth) "Мелодия" ("Melody") "Беловежская пуща" ("Belovezhskaya Forest") "Нежность" ("Tenderness") "Команда молодости нашей" ("Our Youth Team") "Старый клён" ("Old Maple") "Как молоды мы были" ("How Young We Were") "Трус не играет в хоккей" ("No Coward Plays Hockey") "И вновь продолжается бой" ("And the Battle Is Going Again") Vocal Cycles Gagarin's Constellation Songs about Lenin Aiga Stars Motherland Hugging the Sky Orchestral 1953: Russian Suite for symphony orchestra "Ode to Lighting the Fire" (for mixed choir and symphony orchestra). 1957: Music for children: Suite "Lenin in our heart" 1972: Heroes of Sport (Written for the final credits of the Russian sports movie Moving Up) Concerto 1955: Trumpet Concerto 1972: Concerto for Orchestra (based on the ballet Illumination, staged in 1974, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow). Cantata Beautiful as youth, country 1953: Vasily Turkin 1962: Red Pathfinders 1972: Squad Songs Overtures 1957: Youth 1958: Thuringia 1967: Merry Girls 1967: Russian Holiday, for the orchestra of Russian folk instruments Instrumental The Rhythms of Time Carnival Auftakt Robinsonade (from the film "My Love in the Third Year of Study") Heart in the palm A moment of luck Morning big city Elegy (from the film O Sport, You Are Peace!) Recordings 1971: Concerto for Orchestra in E Major (USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, under Evgeny Svetlanov) 1985: Marshal Zhukov March (from film "Battle of Moscow," Central Military band of Ministry of Defence of USSR, under Colonel Anatoly Maltsev) 2015: Concerto for solo Trumpet and Orchestra (Trumpet Records, Timofei Aleksandrovich Dokschitzer) 2019: Anniversary Concert for Aleksandra Pakhmutova (Bolshoi Theater, under Mikhail Pletnev and Yuri Bashmet) Honors and awards Soviet and Russian Hero of Socialist Labour № 21035 (29 October 1990) – for outstanding contributions to the development of Soviet musical art and productive social activities Two