 However, he remained an important figure in Soviet literary circles, and he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1957.Some of his well-known ballads are "Ballada o gvozdyakh" ("Ballad About Nails"), "Ballada o sinem pakete" ("Ballad of the Blue Parcel"), and "Dezertir" ("The Deserter").Tikhonov was the first chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, serving from 1949 to 1979.