The 2025 National Award for outstanding achievements in humanitarian work was awarded to Viktor SADOVNICHY.
Born on April 3, 1939, in Krasnopavlovka, Kharkov Region, Viktor Sadovnichy became the Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University and a Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He enrolled in the Lomonosov Moscow State University’s Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at the age of 19 and graduated in 1963.
Between 1966 and 1992, he rose through the academic ranks at Lomonosov Moscow State University, from a research fellow to the university’s First Vice Rector.
He has headed Lomonosov Moscow State University since 1992. Under his leadership, the university entered a new stage in its development by creating over 30 new departments and institutes, opening its branches in Sevastopol, Astana, Tashkent, Baku, Dushanbe, Yerevan, Grozny, and Sarov, doubling the main campus territory, building the Intellectual Centre – Fundamental Library building, the Lomonosov and Shuvalov buildings, and a Medical Research and Education Centre, a student dormitory for 2,700 students, and a University school. Six satellited developed by specialists from Moscow State University have been launched. The university also created the country’s most powerful supercomputer complex. The project to build the University Valley – Vorobyovy Gory Science and Technology Innovation Centre is currently underway.
For more than 20 years, Viktor Sadovnichy has headed the Russian Union of Rectors and the Eurasian University Association. He has been a member of the Board and Presidium of the Presidential Council for Science and Education since 2012.
Viktor Sadovnichy holds the title of Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation (2024). He is a full cavalier of the Order for Services to the Fatherland (1999, 2005, 2009, 2019), and also received two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1980, 1986), and the Order of Alexander Nevsky (2014). Viktor Sadovnichy received the USSR State Prize (1989) and the National Award of the Russian Federation in Science and Technology (2002).