On January 25, four students of Baikal State University were rewarded with an honorable award - a personal scholarship of the head of the Irkutsk region. Among 70 scholarship holders of Irkutsk universities, BSU students attended the awarding ceremony in the Government of the region, where the Governor personally handed them diplomas.

BSU students Egor Grigoriev, Veronika Baldanova, Mikhail Lubyagin and Kristina Buniatishvili received the honorary award. The Governor's scholarship is awarded to those who win Olympiads, participate in conferences, receive grants and publish scientific articles. In their speech of gratitude students of Baikal State University noted the role of the university in popularization of science and first achievements. They promised to continue active work.

The scholarship holders of the university with this merit was congratulated by the First Vice-Rector - Vice-Rector for Scientific Work Oleg Gribunov. He noted that the students who received the Governor's scholarship are the elite of the Irkutsk region. According to him, the youth of the region have the right guidelines and aspirations.

Governor of the Irkutsk region Igor Kobzev promised that in the next year, 2025, new conditions await the scholarship holders.

"We will form distinctive signs. Let it be in the form of some kind of gratitude, or a badge, or a statuette. We have added two nominations today: the "Experts' Prize" and the "Audience Award". This will be an online voting. This form will be the most interesting for the students themselves," said the head of the region. He also congratulated the students on the holiday and wished them not to stop on their achievements.