Dear Sergey Nikolayevich,
We would like to offer our warm congratulations on the award
the 1998 Russian Government Prize in the field of science and technique.
Your services to science and industry over many years have been quite outstanding,
and it is very gratifying to know that they have now been so suitably rewarded.
We all join in sending you our very best wishes for the future.
Yours faithfully,

The faculty of the Department of Welding Technology,
Materials Science and Wearability of Machine Parts