More than 200 Ukrainian students were honored at an awards ceremony for the ZAVTRA.UA stipend program on Wednesday, Jan. 31 in Kiev. The event took place at the base of the Antonov Science and Technical Complex, in the hangar where the biggest airplane in the world AN-225 Mriia is maintained.

The winners of the program are senior students of Ukrainian universities that succeeded in the nation-wide competition of the students' scientific works. The work was evaluated by independent professional experts.

The ceremony was attended by a large group of prominent guests, including: the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Program, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Yaroslav Yatskiv; the NASA astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper; the well-known Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho; Victor Pinchuk; advisor to the President of Ukraine Oleg Rybachuk; the first astronaut of the independent Ukraine Leonid Kadeniuk; Ukrainian writer Andriy Kurkov; and the chief engineer of the flight-test base of Antonov ANTC, Olexandre Donets.