Stay of M. B. Piotrovsky, director of the State Hermitage Museum, in Kazan on 9-10 February 2011

On 9 February 2011 the corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Science, active member of the Russian Academy of Arts, honorary member of the Academy of Science of Tatarstan Republic, director of the State Hermitage Museum M. B. Piotrovsky delivered a public lecture on Quranic Archeology in the Academy of Science of Tatarstan Republic to celebrate the Day Of Russian Science.
The lecture was followed by the ceremony to give M. B. Piotrovsky a diploma of the Honorary Member of the Academy of Science of Tatarstan Republic.
"Support, attention and care of M. B. Piotrovsky in the cause of preservation and study of spiritual and material heritage of our ancestors deserve recognition of Tatarstan academic community. The decision of the Academy of Science of Tatarstan Republic to make Professor M. B. Piotrovsky the Honorary Member of the Academy is an acknowledgement of his accomplishments as an outstanding scientist and talented administrator in the field o science and culture. It is a great honor for us," noted President of the Academy of Science of Tatarstan Republic Akhmet Mazgarovich Mazgarov.

On 10 February 2011 there was a solemn meeting of the Board of Academics of Kazan Federal University when Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky was given the insignia and the mantle of the Honorary Doctor of one of the Russia’s oldest universities.
The ceremony was attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture of Tatarstan Republic Zilya Rakhimyanovna Valeeva, President of Kazan Univeristy Myakzyum Khalimulovich Salakhov and other officials.
M. B. Piotrovsky delivered a lecture on the Encyclopedic museum of the XXI century and told about the development prospects of the State Hermitage Museum

At the solemn ceremony in the Academy of Science of Tatarstan Republic

M. Piotrovsky giving a lecture

The insignia and mantle of the Honorary Doctor of Kazan University are given to the Hermitage director