Orders of the Patriotic War 1st class Order of the Badge of Honour Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Medal "For the Defence of Odessa" Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad" Lenin Prize (1974) USSR State Prize (1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950) Order of the White Lion (Czechoslovak SSR) Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945 (Czechoslovak SSR) Order of Sukhbaatar (Mongolian SSR) Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (1966) Film adaptations of Simonov's works Numerous films were released in the Soviet Union on Simonov's scenarios and based on his works: Lad from Our Town (1942), directed by Aleksandr Stolper Wait for Me (1943), directed by Aleksandr Stolper In the Name of the Fatherland (1943), directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Dmitriy Vasilyev (play Russian People) Days and Nights (1945), directed by Aleksandr Stolper The Russian Question (1947), directed by Mikhail Romm The Immortal Garrison (1956) The Normandy – Neman (1960), joint production by the USSR and France; together with Charles Spaak and Elsa Triolet The Alive and the Dead (1964), directed by Aleksandr Stolper, starring Kirill Lavrov, Anatoli Papanov, Oleg Yefremov Grenada, Grenada, My Grenada... (1967), documentary, co-directed with Roman Karmen, on the Spanish Civil War Retribution (1969), directed by Aleksandr Stolper The Case of Polynin (1970), directed by Aleksey Sakharov The Fourth (1972), directed by Aleksandr Stolper Twenty Days Without War (1976), directed by Aleksei German, starring Yuri Nikulin and Lyudmila Gurchenko From Lopatin's Notes (1977), directed by Iosif Reichelgaus and Oleg Tabakov References External links The Poems by Konstantin Simonov 1915 births 1979 deaths Writers from Saint Petersburg People from Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union candidate members Second convocation members of the Soviet of the Union Third convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities Russian male poets Russian-language poets Soviet newspaper editors Soviet journalists Russian male journalists Soviet novelists Soviet male writers 20th-century Russian poets 20th-century Russian male writers Soviet poets Soviet dramatists and playwrights Soviet short story writers 20th-century Russian short story writers War correspondents of World War II Russian male novelists Russian male short story writers Soviet war correspondents Soviet translators Russian memoirists Socialist realism writers Lenin Military Political Academy alumni Heroes of Socialist Labour Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Lenin Prize winners Stalin Prize winners Recipients of the Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the