Pyotr Nikitenko was awarded the Gold Medal in the city of Almaty during anniversary events at the National Engineering Academy of the Republic of Kazakhstan which were devoted to the 25th anniversary of Kazakhstan's Independence and the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Academy and were held on November 24-27, 2016.
Pyotr Nikitenko is a famous scientist, economist, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Grand PhD in Economic sciences, Professor, Winner of the Prize of Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova Academies of Sciences. He is widely known for his more than 600 scientific works in the field of national security, public administration and nation-building, scientific, technical, and innovative development, more effective capital accumulation, and the intensification of social production. Pyotr Nikitenko has developed economic and mathematical macro model of social reproduction of noosphere orientation, reflecting the unity of natural (environmental), material and immaterial (social) spheres of social reproduction.