1) Expressions of gratitude to a large community of people who evaluated the achievements of the awardee.

2) Recreating the historical background of one's activity (especially when it was problematic due to political repressions and problems of some other kind).

3) Presenting one's personal, artistic, poetical program to a large audience (this is especially important when speaking about persons who achieved awards for their non-conformist political activity as they were advocating human rights, freedom of self-expression, etc.);

4) Defining perspectives and ways of further activity;

5) Rounding up the speech with words of gratitude, returning to initial statements.