90 Students Receive Boris Yeltsin Award

11:36, October 31, 2019

Naina Yeltsina, the former First Lady, awarded the students [photo report]

Today, the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center hosted the Annual Yeltsin Award Ceremony. The best students and graduate students of the Ural Federal University who pass the competition become Yeltsin Awardees. They must be excellent in studies, have achievements in research, sports and social activities.To congratulate awardees and give welcome remarks, the wife of one of the most famous university graduates, Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina, came to Ekaterinburg.

“It is very exciting to meet with the best students of the university, because it obliges you and me,” Naina Iosifovna addressed the scholars. - To be the best, of course, is a huge job. This is an assessment of your knowledge, your contribution to student life. The load will increase every year, but the best students can do everything. At the same time, study should not obscure your student life. It is important to combine everything. Our best friends with Boris were our classmates, and we walked all our life hand in hand. Study well, but do not forget to rest, to love, to excel in your favorite thing, do sports, and be creative - let it all be with you. I wish you successful studies and a load of happy dear moments. Find yourself in the profession, so that it becomes the goal of your life, the most valued one.”

The stipend from the first President of Russia Fund is considered the most honorable in UrFU. Awardees actively participate in scientific schools and seminars, competitions and competitions. Some students are still on foreign business trips and internships, and also participate in scientific and practical conferences of young scientists held in other cities of Russia.

“It is a great honor for me to receive a nominal scholarship of Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin, all the more so to receive congratulations personally from Naina Iosifovna! - says Anna Mingaleva, a graduate student at the Institute of Economics and Management. - Receiving Yeltsin scholarship is a big thing to be proud of, and an excellent incentive for further development, continuing studies in scientific activity and reaching new heights. A personal scholarship allows you to further believe in yourself, to realize that everything is possible, the main thing is to try!”

Among the awardees of the 2019/20 academic year, 79 students and 11 post-graduate students of UrFU. 11 people became awardees for the second time, and five students for the third time. The amount of the Yeltsin Award is 4'000 rubles per month. Awardees received bank cards with the amount equal for 6 months. To continue to receive a stipend in the second semester, students need to pass the winter examination session only "excellent".

“Obviously, being awarded with this stipend is very nice,” Daria Yasinskaya, a student at the Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, shares her impressions. - I have been doing science since the third year, behind many scientific conferences and publications. I think this played a key role. The receipt of such a scholarship is a confirmation that the work was done not in vain, which motivates us to achieve even greater success in our studies and science. ”

For Your Inquiry

Yeltsin Award was established for students of Ural Polytechnic Institute (now UrFU) in 2002. The first presentation in 2003 was conducted by Boris Yeltsin himself, a UPI Construction Faculty Graduate Class of 1955. The university has been named after an honorary graduate since 2008.