RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES IS 275

 

Russian Academy of Sciences President Yu.S.Osipov Speech of Welcome

 

 

With all may heart, I would like to congratulate you on our common great holiday.

As the date of foundation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, February 8 (new styli) of 1724 is adopted. The Senate then approved the project of Peter the Great to establish an Academy of Sciences and Arts in St. Petersburg. By founding the Academy, Peter the Great understood that “it was impossible for that matter to follow a pattern adopted in other states”, and then, “such a construction is to be made that not only the state’s glory because of sciences multiplication may spread, but also benefit for the people by means of education and using sciences may be gained in future”. And these goals set by Peter the Great were achieved. In the course of all its 275-year history, the scientists of the Academy served the Fatherland and the people.

The Academy was, and remains, the highest scientific institution of the country, a world center for research in the field of mathematics, the natural and technical sciences, the humanities and social sciences.

At hard turning points of life our people has always turned to the living roots of its history, and gained its force from them. That is why today we turn over certain pages of the history of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

 

Russian Academy of Sciences President

academician

Yu.S.Osipov