Overview

• The awards ceremony took place on October 3 at the new Sirius concert centre.
• The honours included the Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland II degree,” the distinction “For Mentorship,” and honorary titles such as “Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation” and “Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation.”
• Named recipients reported by RIA Novosti included Oleg Plesovskikh from the Tyumen region, Svetlana Stepanova from Gymnasium No. 53 in the Penza region, and veteran Tatyana Timkina from the Omsk region.
• Additional honorees included Vyacheslav Ivanov, director of the Bastion sports school in Vladivostok, along with teachers Svetlana Magera in the Pskov region and Zoya Nikitina in the Leningrad region.
• RIA Novosti provided on-the-ground reporting of the event following a Kremlin notice that the meeting would occur in the run-up to Teacher’s Day.