The purpose of Information Theory Paper Award is to recognize the best works in this field. Winners receive a certificate and an honorarium.

The following employees of the Institute for Information Transmission Problems received this award:

• 1981 – Boris Solomonovich TSYBAKOV and Valery Anatol’evich MIKHAILOV for the article “Free Synchronous Packet Access in a Broadcast Channel with Feedback”, Probl. Peredachi Inf., vol. 14, pp. 32-59, Oct. 1978

• 1983 – Mikhail Anatol’evich TSFASMAN and Sergey Georgievich VLÉDUTS (co-author Zink Th.) for the article “Modular curves, Shimura curves, and Goppa codes, better than Varshamov Gilbert bound”, Mathematische Nachrichten, 109, pp. 21-28, 1982

• 1996 – Yuriy Mikhailovich SHTAR"KOV (co-authors Willems F. and Tjalkens T.) for the article “The Context Tree Weighting Method: Basic Properties”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, pp. 653-664, 1995