On 9 December, Fyodor Yurchikhin, a Hero of Russia, pilot cosmonaut, Deputy Chair of All-Russian Society of Nature Conservation, and the President of the Cosmonautics and Aviation Centre, paid a visit to Voronezh State University. He met Rector Dmitry Endovitsky and presented him with a badge of honour and an honorary certificate for “Caring for the environment”.
Arkady Minakov, Director of the VSU library showed the guest books that had been returned to the university from Germany.