In Italy Yuri Ahronovitch was awarded the prize "Arca d'Oro 1991" by the leading Italian newspaper La Stampa and the University of Turin.
Yuri Gagarin | Yuri Bashmet | Yuri Milner | Yuri Orlov | Yuri Andropov | Yuri Shevchuk | Yuri Baturin | Yuri Rozum | Yuri Gurevich | Yuri Averbakh | Yuri Trutnev | Yuri Stern | Yuri Shatunov | Yuri Semin | Yuri Nikulin | Yuri Landman | Yuri Kara | Yuri I. Manin | Yuri Galanskov | Yuri Ebihara | Yuri Dmitrievich Petukhov | Yuri Bogatyryov | Yuri Arbachakov | Yuri Ahronovitch | Yuri Zhirkov | Yuri Zavadsky | Yuri Yunakov | Yuri Yakovich | Yuri Vladimirovich Nesterenko | Yuri Vasilyevich Gulyayev |
Reaching beyond Switzerland from the 1930s, the fame of the orchestra later attracted guest conductors including Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Ernest Ansermet, Hans Knappertsbusch, Ferenc Fricsay, Rafael Kubelík, Günter Wand, Kurt Sanderling, Horst Stein, Yuri Ahronovitch and Eliahu Inbal.