On May 25, 2016 the Pro-Rector for Academic Affairs of the Researchers Training Institute of the NAS of Belarus, Cand. Sc. (Physics and Mathematics), Docent Vladimir V. Shkurko celebrates his 60-th anniversary. Vladimir V. Shkurko has been working at the Researchers Training Institute since its foundation. First he was the Dean of the Physical Engineering Faculty, later he became the Pro-Rector for Academic Affairs. From December 2005 to April 2015 he was the Rector of the Institute. As soon as Vladimir V. Shkurko was involved in the foundation of the Institute, it is to a large extent through his activities that nowadays a wide range of educational programs, including master's, postgraduate, retraining, training, various courses of further adult education functions and develops successfully at the Institute.