Karazin University Researchers Honoured on World Science Day for Peace and Development

A ceremony marking World Science Day for Peace and Development was held in Kharkiv. Among those honoured for their professional achievements and contributions to the advancement of science were three representatives of Karazin University.

The event was attended by Oleh Syniehubov, Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration; Tetiana Yehorova-Lutsenko, Chair of the Kharkiv Regional Council; and Volodymyr Semynozhenko, Vice-President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

During the ceremony, regional officials emphasised the special role of science amid the full-scale war, highlighting its importance for the country's development and bringing victory closer. In recognition of their professional achievements, researchers from the Kharkiv region received state awards, certificates of honour and letters of appreciation.

Among those honoured were representatives of Karazin University:

• Vil Bakirov, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine and Honoured Scientist and Technician of Ukraine, who received the Order of Merit, Third Class;
• Kateryna Sehida, Head of the K. Niemets Department of Human and Economic Geography and Regional Studies at the School of Geology, Geography, Recreation and Tourism, who received a Certificate of Honour from the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration;
• Artem Cherniuk, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electric Power Engineering at the Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogics Academy, who received a Certificate of Honour from the Kharkiv Regional Council.

We congratulate our colleagues on these distinctions and are proud of their achievements!