The message of congratulations reads, in part:
"Your life and your professional career deserve the very deepest respect. Both during the Great Patriotic War and in peacetime, you have always been true to your noble calling of being a doctor. Your rich creative potential, inexhaustible energy and capacity for work combined with your responsible approach to the job in hand all enabled you to become an outstanding scientist who has made a weighty contribution to the development of medical science, and also an inspirational teacher and tutor.
"It is gratifying that even today your seminal work and research developments, your extensive clinical practice and enormous experience are still needed, in medicine and our healthcare system."