Short answers, pulled from the story.
Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov was born on the 16th of December 1915 in the town of Fatezh. His family moved to Kursk after his father died during the Russian Civil War when Georgy was four years old.
Georgy Sviridov studied under Pyotr Ryazanov at the Conservatory and later trained with Dmitri Shostakovich until 1941. He initially attended a music school in 1929 before moving north to Leningrad to study piano at the Central Music College.
Georgy Sviridov received the Stalin Prize in 1946 for his Piano Trio composed between 1936 and 1939. He earned the Lenin Prize in 1960 for Oratorio Pathétique written in 1959 and won the USSR State Prize twice more in 1968 and 1980.
The suite The Blizzard released in 1975 contained orchestral pieces that became deeply embedded in Russian culture. A segment from his score for the 1965 film Time Forward! served as the opening theme for the main evening TV news program Vremya.
Georgy Sviridov died of a heart attack at the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital in the early morning hours of the 6th of January 1998. His death marked the end of a long career spanning over six decades of composition.