The Russian Biographical Institute has released a list of “People and Events of 2021”
The list of laureates includes not only the names of politicians, doctors, musicians, public figures, but the events of the year in various industries. Academician Anatoly Torkunov and director of the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War Alexander Shkolnik, the creation of the Association of Unions of Writers and Book Publishers and the start of mass production of Zircon missiles were noted …
The first question that we asked Svyatoslav of the Board of Directors of the Board of Directors: by what criteria were the candidates for the list evaluated?
Svyatoslav Rybas: We first named People of the Year in 1993. The year was difficult, with tanks in Moscow. Then Metropolitan Kirill and a member of the Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin played an outstanding peacekeeping role. First of all, they, and a number of Russian citizens, became laureates of the award. And today it is quite obvious – social significance, assessment in the media.
Who makes the listing decisions?
Svyatoslav Rybas: The Russian information community can be called experts. I will personally name Leo Bokeria, academician-cardiac surgeon, chairman of the commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Lermontov, chairman of the Public Council under the ministry, Alexei Fedotov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Viktor Fedorov, President of the Russian State Library, Alexander Shchipkov, Professor of Moscow State University, Religious Ageoveev and philosopher, Alexander , Director General of the Institute for Economic Strategies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Mikhail Nenashev, Chairman of the All-Russian Fleet Support Movement …
This year, the list includes not only people, but also events.
Svyatoslav Rybas: Of course, the events of the year, the heroes of the year, the organizations of the year are not equal-level phenomena. Therefore, it is better to talk about them separately. Of course, I must also say about the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health – precisely in the broadest scope.
Are there people on the lists that I would like to talk about separately?
Svyatoslav Rybas: Everyone knows this person. His name is a citizen of the Russian Federation! He is patriotic, talented, hardworking, moderately critical, historical, that is, he feels the support of thousands of years of history. I say this with confidence as a writer-historian. Tyutchev also noted that Russia has always been saved by its history.
Topics for listing – public weight and media ratings
People and Events of the Year – 2021
People of the Year
Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.
Patriarch Kirill
Metropolitan Kirill (Pokrovsky) of Stavropol and Nevinomyssk
Sergei Sobyanin, mayor of Moscow
Nikita Mikhalkov, film director.
Eduard Boyakov, artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater named after A.M. Gorky (2018-2021).
Pavel Negoitsa, General Director of Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”.
Natalia Narochnitskaya, President of the Historical Perspective Research Foundation.
Anatoly Torkunov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
Alexander Shkolnik, director of the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 (Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Hill)
Natalya Nikipelova, President of TVEL JSC.
Alexander Mikheev, General Director of JSC Rosoboronexport.
Alexander Leonov, General Director, General Designer of JSC MIC “NPO Mashinostroyenia”
Alexey Sobolev, Deputy General Director, Managing Director of PJSC “United Engine Corporation” UEC – “Kuznetsov”.
Vladimir Seredokho, General Director of Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard JSC.
Sergey Tseluiko, General Director of Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex LLC.
Oleg Demchenko, First Vice President – General Designer of Irkut Research and Production Corporation.
Alexey Likhachev, General Director of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom.
Alexey Vashkevich, General Director of the Gazprom Neft Science and Technology Center.
Vyacheslav Petushenko, chairman of the board of the state company Russian Highways.
Mars Gainutdinov, President of the Board of Yamaldorstroy JSC.
Events of the Year
State construction
Decree of the President V.V. Putin on the National Security Strategy.
Culture
Reconstruction of the “Knowledge” society.
Creation of the Association of Unions of Writers and Book Publishers.
Conducting the Eighth Stavropol Forum of the World Russian Cathedral.
Creation of the Presidential Commission for Historical Education.
Development of the traditions of the Russian theater school on the stage of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater (2018 – 2021)
Education
Victories of Russian schoolchildren in international Olympiads (physicist, mathematics, chemistry, biology, computer science).
Energy
Completion of the construction of the Northern Channel – 2 gas pipeline. Creation of the floating nuclear power plant “Lomonosov”. Creation of Aframax supertankers. Completion of the construction of an underwater Arctic gas pipeline in Yamal.
Aircraft construction
Creation of a medium-haul liner MS-21 with a new PD-14 engine. Creation of the SU-75 Chechmate light fighter. Development of an engine for the 5th generation SU-57 fighter.
Chemical industry
Launch of PAN – a plant in Tatarstan.
Defense industrial complex
Serial production of Zircon hypersonic missiles.
Creation of a mine defense ship of project 12700 “Anatoly Shmelev”. Creation of the self-propelled gun “Coalition-SV”.
Creation of BMPT “Terminator-2”.
Creation of the unmanned aerial vehicle S-70 “Okhotnik”.
Creation of an unmanned aerial vehicle “Orion” with an onboard radar station.
Implementation of the project for licensed production of AK-203 in India as a significant element of a special strategic privileged partnership between Russia and India.
Urban complex
Creation of 10 stations of the Bolshaya Koltsevaya metro line in Moscow.