National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

13.10.2023

Grand opening of the architectural and artistic composition Golden Ring of Belarusian Science takes place

On October 12, 2023, as part of the celebrations dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the opening of the architectural and artistic composition Golden Ring of Belarusian Science took place. The composition consists of a rotunda and sculptures of outstanding scientists of Belarus, founders of scientific thought: Kirill Turovsky, Francysk Skaryna, Simeon Polotsky, Kazimir Semenovich, Evstafiy Tyshkevich, Evfimiy Karsky and Vsevolod Ignatovsky. The authors of the project, architect Armen Sardarov, sculptors Elena Kharaberyush and Leonard Pokulnitsky, took part in the official event.

The opening ceremony was attended by Chairman of the Presidium of the NAS of Belarus, Academician Vladimir Gusakov, Head of the Department of Space Activities of the Apparatus of the NAS of Belarus, Academician Peter Vityaz, architect Armen Sardarov, Chairman of the Council of Young Scientists of the NAS of Belarus Stanislav Yuretsky, Director of the Yanka Kupala Institute of Literary Studies Ivan Saverchenko.

During the ceremony, a capsule was placed in the niche of the architectural and artistic composition Golden Ring of Belarusian Science with a message to the descendants, the successors of the scientific traditions of Belarus. The capsule is engraved with the inscription:

A message to posterity

Adhering to the principle of continuity

and maintaining devotion to the best traditions of scientific schools,

we ask you to send a message to your descendants,

thereby creating a continuous Axis of Time of academic science

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