During the event, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics Professor Steven Chu (USA) and academician Vladislav Panchenko of the Russian Academy of Sciences were awarded diplomas and badges of the honorary PhD of the Academic University.
After the official part, a commemoration photograph was taken of the head of FIDE and Mikhail Dubina – the First Pro-rector of the University and the youngest academician in the world as well as with his Kalmyk countrywoman Anna Yudenko. She has graduated from Elista’s school No. 18 and currently is working as a Junior Researcher of the nanobiotechnology lab, engaged in the development of space research.