On its Birthday Anniversary, our university resumed a nice tradition of awarding its staff members, who have made a special contribution into development of SUSU, as well as have been successfully solving the most challenging and important duty- and production-related tasks.
The SUSU Recognition Award 2025 included several categories: “Mastery of the Year”, “Sport of the Year”, “Culture of the Year”, “Education of the Year”, and “Science of the Year”. The best staff members had been named through independent voting. The organizers noted that there had been a serious competition in each category, and it had been extremely difficult to choose just one candidate.
“The university vice-rectors were the ones to propose the candidates for each category. A big committee of 28 people was gathered, and each one of them could propose the candidate, whom they thought we could call a “driver” of SUSU this year and who has made a colossal contribution into all our achievements,” noted SUSU Rector Alexander Wagner. “My most sincere congratulations to each nominee, I’m very proud of you. I feel confident that there is a hard work of people behind each successful case. People who are not indifferent and aim for good results!”
Kirill Minkin, Head of the SUSU Legal Services Office became the laureate in the “Mastery of the Year” category. The prize was awarded to him by the Vice-Rector for Economics and Finance Olga Shcherbinina and Vice-Rector for Estates and Facilities Vadim Trofimychev. Among the nominees also were Campus Director Liudmila Zadorina, Chief Accountant of the General Accounting Office Ekaterina Markina, and Head of the Informatization Office Elena Podivilova.
Aleksey Shakhovskiy, teacher and head coach of the SUSU boxing and chessboxing student teams became the winner in the “Sport of the Year” category. He was awarded by the Director of the Institute of Sport, Tourism and Service Vadim Erlikh. The category participants also included: coach of the men’s football team Iliia Bodrov and coach of the SUSU women’s basketball student team Elena Iskanderova.
Olga Bragina, Artistic Productions Manager at the Recreation Centre of the SUSU Extracurricular Activities Office received the award in the “Culture of the Year” category. The winner was announced by the Vice-Rector for Student and Social Affairs Anastasiia Lapo. Among this category’s nominees also were: Deputy Head of the Extracurricular Activities Office Valeriia Zasova and inspector at the Centre for Youth Initiatives Support of the Extracurricular Activities Office Vlada Nedotko.
Pavel Gamov, Dean of the SUSU Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Technology was chosen as the winner in the “Education of the Year” category. He was awarded his prize by the Vice-Rector for Education Marina Potapova. Among the nominees proposed by the committee also were: Head of the Testing Office at the SUSU Foreign Citizens Testing Centre Elena Doronina and Director of Sber’s “School 21” Centre for Training Personnel in Information Technology at South Ural State University Dmitriy Kozlenkov.
Team of the Quantum Engineering of Light Research Laboratory, including Sergey Kulik, Anna Paterova, Vladimir Ushakov, Sergey Podoshvedov and Dmitriy Kuts became winners in the “Science of the Year” category. They were awarded by the First Vice-Rector, Vice-Rector for Research Anton Korzhov. Among the nominees also were teams of the Laboratory for Computer Vision of Robotic Systems in Industry (Vladimir Surin, Iaroslav Bushmelev, and Ivan Goncharov), Electromechanical, Electronic and Electrochemical Systems Regional Youth Laboratory (Vladimir Zhivulin, Nadezhda Kuleva, and Sergey Sozykin), and team of leaders of the “Non-conventional Materials” strategical project (Viacheslav Avdin, Evgeniy Trofimov, and Dmitriy Zherebtsov).
Grand Prix of the SUSU Recognition Award 2025 was of course the most important and most awaited-for category. Traditionally, the winner in this category was announced and congratulated by the Rector Alexander Wagner. Anton Korzhov, the First Vice-Rector, Vice-Rector for Research became the holder of this award.
All our university students and staff members congratulate all the nominees and wish them further professional success!