Dear teachers, staff and students! Dear veterans!

With all my heart I congratulate you on Victory Day!

This is a special holiday for each of us. It fills souls with pride for the Fatherland and faith in the indestructible spirit of our people. The victory came at the cost of huge losses. We bow our heads to the heroes who defended our right to live freely and happily.

The years of the Great Patriotic War were very difficult for our university. Scientists, students, and employees fought as volunteers at the front, worked tirelessly in the rear, and participated in the defense of strategically important objects in besieged Leningrad. Our duty is to be worthy of their feat and pass on the memory of it to the younger generation.

Dear friends! On Victory Day, I wish you and your families peaceful skies above your heads, inexhaustible vital energy, health and prosperity!

SPbGASU Rector
Evgeny I. Rybnov