Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University is named in his honour.

USSR State Prize (1978 – for the story "King Fish" (1976) and 1991 – for his novel "Sighted Staff" (1988))
Maxim Gorky RSFSR State Prize (1975) – for the story "The Pass" (1959), "Theft" (1966), "Last Bow" (1968), "Shepherd and Shepherdess" (1971)
State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995 – for his novel "The Cursed and the Slain", 2003 – posthumously)
Pushkin Prize (Germany, 1997)
Award "Triumph"
Hero of Socialist Labour (1989)
Order of Lenin (1989)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour, three times (1971, 1974, 1984)
Order of Friendship of Peoples (1981) – the anniversary of the Union of Soviet Writers
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (1985)
Order of Friendship – 70th anniversary of his birth
Order of the Red Star
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd class
Medal For Courage (1943)
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University is named in his honour.
USSR State Prize (1978 – for the story "King Fish" (1976) and 1991 – for his novel "Sighted Staff" (1988))
Maxim Gorky RSFSR State Prize (1975) – for the story "The Pass" (1959), "Theft" (1966), "Last Bow" (1968), "Shepherd and Shepherdess" (1971)
State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995 – for his novel "The Cursed and the Slain", 2003 – posthumously)
Pushkin Prize (Germany, 1997)
Award "Triumph"
Hero of Socialist Labour (1989)
Order of Lenin (1989)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour, three times (1971, 1974, 1984)
Order of Friendship of Peoples (1981) – the anniversary of the Union of Soviet Writers
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (1985)
Order of Friendship – 70th anniversary of his birth
Order of the Red Star
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd class
Medal For Courage (1943)
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Viktor Astafyev