Boltyansky was awarded the Lenin Prize (for the work led by Pontryagin, Revaz Gamkrelidze, and Evgenii Mishchenko (ru)) for applications of differential equations to optimal control.[when?] In 1967 he received Uzbek SSR prize for the work on ordered rings. He currently teaches at CIMAT.[3]
He is the corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Education. He is the author of over 200 books and mathematical articles