On May 28, 2026, Smolny hosted an award ceremony for the winners of the St. Petersburg Government Award for Outstanding Results in Science and Education for 2026. The event was timed to coincide with the City Day. In total, more than 70 people were awarded personalized prizes by the city government for outstanding scientific results in the field of science and technology, as well as for achievements in higher and secondary vocational education, including 21 prominent scientists and well–known figures of science and technology - representatives of various branches of science and scientific and technical fields. As Governor Alexander Beglov noted, science and new technologies are one of the ten priorities of St. Petersburg's development. "We are all continuing the work of Peter the Great, the one who created the great empire, Russia, and our beautiful city. Today, St. Petersburg is honourably fulfilling the President's instructions to strengthen the country's technological sovereignty," said Alexander Beglov, Governor of St. Petersburg, at the award ceremony.
The prizes "For Outstanding scientific results in the field of science and technology" have been awarded annually since
2000. This year, for a series of works and fundamental discoveries in the field of the structure and functioning of genomes of agricultural plants in the interaction of "genotype-environment", the development of innovative approaches to screening samples of plant genetic resources and receiving new Russian varieties of agricultural plants awards in the nomination "Biological Sciences – N.I. Prize Yuri V. Chesnokov, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Director of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Agrophysical Research Institute, was awarded the Vavilova Prize.
Congratulations to Yu.V. Chesnokov on his highly deserved award and wish him further creative, professional and scientific success!
