People's artist of USSR (1988), corresponding member AH (1988). The statue of "Mother Georgia" (1958, 1963) and the monument to Vakhtang Gorgasal (1967) in Tbilisi, the Victory monument in Gori, a memorial of Glory to heroes-seamen in Poti (both 1979) differ in the sparseness of the volume, the pathos of the images. State prize of the USSR (1982).