1. Viktor Antonovich Sadovnichiy is a Russian mathematician, winner of the 1989 USSR State Prize, and since 1992 the rector of Moscow State University.
21 Facts About Viktor Sadovnichiy
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One of the main opinion leaders in Russia, Sadovnichiy has significant political and social influence.
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Viktor Sadovnichiy was born in the village of Krasnopavlovka in Kharkov Oblast to worker Anton Grigoryevich and collective farmer Anna Matveyevna.
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Viktor Sadovnichiy was sent to graduate school and graduated in 1966, defending his PhD thesis on 17 March 1967.
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Viktor Sadovnichiy defended his doctoral thesis in 1974.
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Since 1982, Viktor Sadovnichiy has been the head of the calculus department of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics.
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Viktor Sadovnichiy worked at Moscow State University in the following positions: deputy dean of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics for scientific work, deputy vice-rector, vice-rector, and first vice-rector.
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On 23 March 1992, Viktor Sadovnichiy was elected rector of Moscow State University on an alternative basis and re-elected in 1996,2001, and 2005.
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Viktor Sadovnichiy has been a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1994, a full member since 1997, and a member of the Academy's Presidium.
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Viktor Sadovnichiy is President of the Russian Union of Rectors, President of the Moscow Society of Naturalists, and Chairman of the Russian Council of School Olympiads.
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Viktor Sadovnichiy is a member of the editorial board of scientific journals Problem Analysis and Public Management Design, Quantum Computers and Quantum Computing, Higher Education in Russia, and Fundamental and Applied Mathematics.
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Viktor Sadovnichiy was stripped of his Ukrainian awards on 19 January 2025 by a decree of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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Alexander Shen, George Szpiro, and other mathematicians accused Viktor Sadovnichiy of being a leading proponent of the discriminatory policy that prevented the mass admission of applicants of Jewish origin to the MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics.
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Viktor Sadovnichiy said the following about the relation between his political activity and rectorship of the MSU in the early 90s:.
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Since December 2002, Viktor Sadovnichiy has been a member of the political council of the Moscow regional branch of the United Russia party.
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Viktor Sadovnichiy is a member of the party's Supreme Council.
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Viktor Sadovnichiy took part in the elections of deputies to the State Duma of the Russian Federation in 2003, but after that, he refused his mandate as a deputy.
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On 6 February 2012, for the 2012 Russian presidential election, Viktor Sadovnichiy was officially registered as a trusted representative of Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Putin.
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Viktor Sadovnichiy was included in the list of Putin's trusted representatives.
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On 3 April 2022 Viktor Sadovnichiy initiated a letter of the rectors of Russian universities supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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The document, signed by Viktor Sadovnichiy and co-signed by 304 other rectors of Russian universities, calls, among other things, for the "demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine", for "support [to be given to] the [Russian] army and the president".