International Astronautical Federation (IAF) launched initiative of Dr. A.V. Degtyarev, Yuzhnoye SDO General Director, IAF Vice-President for Industry Relations (2015-2018), NASU Academician and inducted Elizaveta Lvovna KORDYUM, Head of Department in NASU

M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, into the IAF Hall of Fame.

IAF President Mrs. Pascale Ehrenfreund informed of the fact the Ukrainian scientific community. Incidentally, it is the second representative of Ukriane who has earned such high repute. In 2017 S.N. Konyukhov, Yuzhnoye SDO General Designer-General Director (1991-2010), was also inducted into the Hall of Fame.