Tatiana Chernigovskaya is the winner of the Academician Likhachev Star Medal
Professor Tatiana Chernigovskaya is Director of the Institute for Cognitive Studies of St Petersburg University and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education. She has been awarded the highest award of the 26th International Competition ‘Constellation of Talents’ – ‘Star of Academician Dmitry Likhachev’.
Tatiana Chernigovskaya is one of the leading specialists in Russia and abroad in the field of cognitive sciences – psycholinguistics, neuropsychology, and neurophysiology. It was on her initiative that the first Russian master's programmes in psycholinguistics and cognitive studies were opened at St Petersburg University. In 2010, Tatiana Chernigovskaya was awarded the honorary title of Honoured Worker of Science of the Russian Federation. In 2019, she became a member of the Academic Council on the methodology of artificial intelligence and cognitive research at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The honorary title of the Dmitry Likhachev Prize winner and the highest award of the ‘Constellation of Talents’ competition was awarded to Tatiana Chernigovskaya in the category ‘Year of Science and Technology in Russia’ in recognition of her outstanding scientific and educational achievements.
We are at the forefront of science and we know what our foreign colleagues are working on. Unfortunately, many research groups have stayed within their circle of connections for decades. However, the world has changed. It has turned in a different direction, and those scientists do not know about it. But this is not our case. Our students and postgraduate students get involved in grant-supported projects very early. They are aware that they are engaged in serious research.
Professor Tatiana Chernigovskaya (click here to read her interview on creating the Institute for Cognitive Studies)
In 2021, prizes were awarded in the categories: ‘Year of Science and Technology in Russia’; ‘To the 200th anniversary of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’; ‘To the 25th anniversary of the international competition "Constellation of Talents": teachers’; as well as in the categories for young people in science, literature, and art.
The international competition ‘Constellation of Talents’ was founded in 1996 by prominent figures of science and culture of Russia, honorary citizens of St Petersburg - Academician Dmitry Likhachev, sculptor Mikhail Anikushin, and composer Andrei Petrov. The initiator of the competition and the author of the idea for the award was Valentina Zorina, a track-and-field athlete and a graduate of Leningrad State University.
The competition is currently supported by: the Committee for the Youth Policy and Cooperation with Public Organisations; the Legislative Assembly of St Petersburg; and the Government of St Petersburg. Over the 25 years of its existence, the ‘Star of Academician Dmitry Likhachev’ has been awarded to: Nobel Physics Laureate Zhores Alferov; Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren; Rector of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet Nikolay Tsiskaridze; famed conductor Yuri Temirkanov; and other prominent figures of science and culture.
The awards ceremony for the winners of the 26th International Competition ‘Constellation of Talents’ will be held on 2 December, the birthday of Dmitry Likhachev, at the House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
