March. According to the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for prominent work in cattle breeding Maria Yefremovna Lukasheva, a milkmaid of the Sovkhoz "Detskoselsky", Yelizaveta Yefremovna Ivanova, a milkmaid of the Sovkhoz "Shushari", were awarded the orders of Lenin; Klavdiya Iosifovna Zhgilova, a team leader of the Sovkhoz "Detskoselsky", Stepanida Rodionovna Abramova, a pig-tender of the Sovkhoz "Shushari", Mikhail Mikhaylovich Lebedev, the director of the Pushkin Town Research Labaratory of breeding farm animals, were awarded the orders of Labour Red Banner; Vladimir Leontyevich Alchiyev, Silvestr Ivanovich Bogolyubsky, the head of a department of the Leningrad Agricultural Institute, Aleksandra Dmitriyevna Kurbatova, a senior researcher of the Research Labaratory of breeding farm animals were awarded the orders " Sign of Honour".

The monument to the Hero of the USSR Lieutenant-General D.M. Karbyshev (the sculptor V.I. Ingal, the architect L.V. Kalinin) was installed in the portico of the former palace of Paley, where the Higher Military Building College has been placed.

The Research Institute of Children Orthopaedy named after G.I. Turner was moved into the building of the former "House for crippled soldiers of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna" located at the Orlov Gates. Alchiyev, Vladimir Leontyevich
Bogolyubsky, Silvestr Ivanovich
Ingal Vladimir Iosifovich
Ivanova, Yelizaveta Yefremovna
Kalinin, L.V.
Kurbatova, Aleksandra Dmitriyevna
Lebedev, Mikhail Mikhailovich
Lukasheva, Maria Yefremovna
Zhgilova, Klavdia Iosifovna