The first prize was awarded to Mikhail Predtechensky, Dmitry Markovich, Vladimir Meledin for creating the foundations of the global industry of single-walled carbon nanotubes and the scientific justification of new methods for the diagnosis and control of nonequilibrium systems.

The second prize will be awarded to Biocad CEO Dmitry Morozov, Andrei Ulitin from the Institute of Biological Instrument Engineering with Experimental Production of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Tatyana Chernovskaya, director of the Biocada Biochemistry Department, for developing and introducing into clinical practice a complex of drugs based on monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of oncological and autoimmune diseases .

Andrei Golovnev, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, became the laureate of the third prize. The award marks his contribution to the study of the cultural heritage of the peoples of the Arctic.