Nargiz Pashayeva awarded honorary professorship of Moscow State University

The conferment of the title of honorary professor of Moscow University to the rector of the Baku branch of Moscow State University, Doctor of Philological Sciences, professor, Corresponding member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Nargiz Pashayeva, was one of the key events at the celebration of the 260th anniversary of Moscow State University.

 
Handing her the title of honorary professor, the rector of the university, Viktor Sadovnichy, said: "The Scholarly Council of Lomonosov Moscow State University made the following decision at its meeting: to award Pashayeva Nargiz Arif qizi with the title of honorary professor of Moscow University for an outstanding contribution to the creation and establishment of a branch of Lomonosov Moscow State University in Baku and beneficial cooperation with the University of Moscow. It will provide her with rights, honors and privileges provisioned by the law and customs."

Nargiz Pashayeva replied by saying: "Mr. Rector, the high assembly, the University of Moscow has made a truly majestic, beautiful, straightforward, swift, bold and courageous journey in the last 260 years. And now all the people of the Moscow University can say that they serve the temple of knowledge, uniting youth and wisdom, tradition and modernity, similarities and differences, the dialogue of cultures, the continuity of generations, the ideals of humanism, justice and peace. And today, having the happy chance to stand here before you and talk to you from this high platform, I find it my duty to note that I understand very well the value and importance of the fact that I am a part of this wonderful, great and unique world - the world of Moscow State University. What could be more honorable and better than this? I think nothing could."

Nargiz Pashayeva expressed appreciation for the high appraisal of her work by her colleague: "I thank the Scholarly Council of Moscow University, headed by the rector, for awarding me the high title of honorary professor of Lomonosov Moscow University. I would like to emphasize that Baku is joyous about this holiday, and on behalf of the Baku branch, on behalf of the scientific and pedagogical community of Azerbaijan, on behalf of the ordinary citizens of our country, I would like to congratulate you on this great and glorious holiday, the birth of a great university, which has never made a mistake, has not stumbled once, has not lost in the endless battle of eras and epochs in the past 260 years, because universities are always something eternal, while everything else is only big and small episodes in history. I would like to thank you, Victor Antonovich, and all those teachers who throughout all this time, travelling between Baku and Moscow, helped our branch to rise. You will always be honored in Baku and remembered by the people who you gave a start in life. Thank you! Let your power, the power of knowledge and great human dignity grow and multiply. Happy Holiday and a profound bow to you!"

Together with Nargiz Pashayeva, a scholar from Germany, Bernd Meyer from Monash University, was also awarded the title of honorary professor of MSU. Now their names are written together with other scholars of our times who have been awarded this honorary title in different years.

A list of scholars who have been awarded the title of honorary professor of Moscow State University:

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (2000);

Dmitry Viktorovich Anosov, mathematician, academician, a specialist in the theory of dynamic systems and differential equations, differential geometry and topology;

Stepan Iordanovich Beryl, physicist, the president emeritus of the Transnistrian State University;

Thomas Gries, professor at the Technical University of Aachen, Germany;

Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India; 

Stanislav Grof, American psychologist and psychiatrist of Czech origins, one of the founders of transpersonal psychology and a pioneer in the study of altered states of consciousness;

Leonid Yakovlevich Dyatchenko, the rector of Belgorod State University;

Mikhail Chokkaevich Zalikhanov, his main research areas are glaciology, geology, geophysics and ecology;

Leonid Vitalievich Kantorovich, mathematician;

Maxim Karanfilovsky, professor at Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (Macedonia);

Salomon Kroonenberg, biologist, professor at Delft University;

Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space, Candidate of Technical Sciences;

Sarantsatsral Tserenchimed, professor at the Mongolian State University;

Evgeniy Shikin, the head of the department of mathematical methods at the Faculty of Public Administration of Moscow State University;

Juodka Benediktas, biochemist, the rector of Vilnius University.