Viktor Sadovnichiy

Viktor Antonovich Sadovnichiy (Russian: Виктор Антонович Садовничий; born 3 April 1939) is a Russian mathematician, winner of the 1989 USSR State Prize, and since 1992 the rector of Moscow State University.[1] One of the main opinion leaders in Russia, Sadovnichiy has significant political and social influence.[2]

Viktor Sadovnichiy
Виктор Антонович Садовничий
2023
Born (1939-04-03) 3 April 1939
Krasnopavlovka, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
NationalitySoviet Union, Russian
CitizenshipSoviet Union, then Russian Federation
Alma materMoscow State University
Known forRector of Moscow State University
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsRector of Moscow State University
Professor, Academic of Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Sciences in Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Biography

Sadovnichiy was born in the village Krasnopavlovka in Kharkiv Oblast, now in Ukraine. He graduated from the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University and defended his doctoral thesis in 1974. In 1975 he became Professor, since 1982 until the present day he is the head of the Mathematical Analysis chair of the department. He held different offices in the administration of the University until he was elected the rector in 1992. In 1996, 2001 and 2005 Sadovnichiy was reelected without any other candidates.

On numerous occasions Viktor Sadovnichiy was accused of being one of the organizers of the infamous antisemitic admission policies of the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics during the 1970s and the 1980s.[3]

Sadovnichiy has been a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1994, Doctor Emeritus of universities throughout the world, as well as the author of some 150 works. In 1989 he was awarded with the USSR State Prize. He is also a Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[4]

In 2022, he was the lead signature on the Address of the Russian Union of Rectors, which called to support Putin in his invasion of Ukraine.[5][6]

World financial economic crisis

In their co-authored article “On the Possibilities to Forecast the Current Crisis and its Second Wave” (with Askar Akaev and Andrey Korotayev) in the Russian academic journal “Ekonomicheskaya politika” (December 2010. Issue 6. Pages 39–46 Клиодинамика - математические методы в истории) the three authors published «a forecast of the second wave of the crisis, which suggested that it may start in July — August, 2011».[7]

Honours and awards
With Vladimir Putin (2014)

Controversies

As Vice-Rector (1982-1984) and First Vice-Rector (1984-1992) of Moscow State University, he directed the Admission Committee of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics and pursued a policy of preventing Jews from being admitted to the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty. As a pro-rector he personally signed refusals in appeals.[9] He has also been accused of discrimination against Jews while he served as a professor.[10]

Public work

In the october of 2014 the Moscow State University, the Russian Post and "The teacher's newspaper" organized a contest essays among one hundred thousand of Russian high school student on the topic "The person I trust". A few best essays, all of them written about the Russian president Vladimir Putin, were personally presented by Sadovnichiy to president Putin in October 2014 [11] [12]

Political activity

On April 3, 2022 Sadovnichiy initiated[13][14][15] a letter[16][17] of the rectors of Russian universities supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The document, signed by Sadovnichy and co-signed by 304 other rectors of Russian universities, calls, among other things, for the "demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine", for "support [to be given to] the [Russian] army and the president". The letter says that "supporting the patriotism is a duty of the [Russian] universities", and that the "[Russian] universities were always [among the] supporting piers of the [Russian] state".

In response for his support of the invasion, he was deprived of honorary doctorates from Ukrainian universities in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro. On 9 June 2022, Ukraine imposed sanctions on him.[18][19][20]

References
  1. "Victor Antonovich SADOVNICHY".
  2. Experts announced the most influential politicians and businessmen of Russia RBC
  3. "The Mathematical Intelligencer, 16, No. 4, 6 (1994)" (PDF).
  4. VICE PRESIDENTS OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Archived 2010-02-25 at the Wayback Machine Russian Academy of Sciences. Accessed January 23, 2010
  5. Original text of the Address of the Russian Union of Rectors Archived 2022-03-20 at the Wayback Machine
    English translation of the Address
    Naujokaitytė, Goda (2022-03-10). "Russian rectors' support for Putin prompts UK universities to cut links". Science. Business.
    Lem, Pola (2022-03-07). "Russian rectors' union echoes Kremlin propaganda on Ukraine". The World University Rankings.
    O’Malley, Brendan (2022-03-06). "Russian Union of Rectors backs Putin's action in Ukraine". University World News.
  6. "MILTA: Russian Colleges are calling for war. Will Yale react?". Yale Daily News. March 15, 2022.
  7. Askar Akaev, Viktor Sadovnichiy, and Andrey Korotayev. On the Possibilities to Forecast the Current Crisis and its Second Wave. “Ekonomicheskaya politika”. December 2010. Issue 6. Pages 39-46.; see also Askar Akaev, Viktor Sadovnichiy, and Andrey Korotayev. Huge rise in gold and oil prices as a precursor of a global financial and economic crisis. Doklady Mathematics. 2011. Volume 83, Number 2, 243-246; * On the dynamics of the world demographic transition and financial-economic crises forecasts // The European Physical Journal 205, 355-373 (2012) (with Askar Akaev and Andrey Korotayev).
  8. Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 16 апреля 2019 года № 174 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»
  9. Szpiro, George G. (November 2007). "Bella Abramovna Subbotovskaya and the "Jewish People's University"" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 54: 1326.
  10. Kanevsky, V. "INTELLECTUAL GENOCIDE Examinations for Jews: Moscow State University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute" (PDF).
  11. "Kremlin press-release". kremlin.ru. Archived from the original on 22 August 2019.
  12. "No comment - Троицкий вариант — Наука". November 20, 2021. Archived from the original on 20 November 2021.
  13. "Российский Союз ректоров принял обращение в поддержку спецоперации на Украине".
  14. "Обращение Российского Союза ректоров". 5 March 2022.
  15. "Российский Союз ректоров выступил за "демилитаризацию" и "денацификацию" Украины". 6 March 2022.
  16. "Обращение Российского Союза ректоров". Archived from the original on 2022-03-29. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  17. "Обращение Российского Союза ректоров". www.rsr-online.ru. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  18. "В Днепре за поддержку армии Путина ректора МГУ лишили докторского звания". opentv.media. 2022-03-14. Retrieved July 3, 2023.
  19. "Харківський університет Каразіна позбавив почесного звання ректора МГУ". suspilne.media. 2022-03-16. Retrieved July 3, 2023.
  20. "УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №401/2022". President of Ukraine. 2022-06-09. Retrieved July 3, 2023.
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