On 7 February 2018, delegation of the city leaders headed by Head of the Dubna City Administration Maxim Danilov was welcomed in the JINR Directorate. The visit was paid on the occasion of the Day of Russian Science. The JINR party was represented by JINR Vice-Director Richard Lednický, JINR Chief Scientific Secretary Alexander Sorin, and Deputy of Chief Scientific Secretary Oleg Belov. Maxim Danilov read out and then presented a greeting address to the JINR Directorate. On that day, the delegation of the city leaders visited the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions and the Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics.