On 26 December, at a meeting of the members of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), the award ceremony of RAS prizes named after outstanding scientists took place. RAS President, Academician Gennady Krasnikov presented the diplomas. One of the laureates was Head of the Scientific and Experimental Department of Heavy-Ion Physics at the Laboratory of High Energy Physics at JINR, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics Alexander Malakhov. He received the prize for a series of research in relativistic nuclear physics that was carried out at JINR and foreign centres and provided the basis for the physical programme of the NICA Accelerator Complex.

Alexander I. Malakhov is a famous Russian physicist, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering (RAE) and the International Academy of Engineering, Head of the RAE Section of Nuclear Energy, and Head of the Department of Physical and Technical Systems at the Dubna University. Since 1971, he has been working at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna. From 1997 to 2007, he was elected the Director of the Laboratory of High Energy Physics, the largest JINR laboratory. Today, he is the Head of the Scientific and Experimental Department of Heavy-Ion Physics at VBLHEP at JINR.

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