In 2021, PIR Center established a competition for the G.M. Evstafiev Award, or the Evstafiev Award, for the best research work in the field of international security. To hold the Competition in 2021, the Commission for the Scientific Heritage of G.M. Evstafiev was formed.
The competition is held annually among young Russian and foreign researchers whose works have been published as part of the Evstafiev Series or accepted by members of the Commission to participate in the Competition. The amount of the award is set annually by the Commission.
The Evstafiev Series is a series of research and analytical publications written by young, aspiring authors (primarily, MA graduates and post-graduates) from Russia and around the globe in the area of global security. For many, this is their first or one of the first peer-reviewed publications. All drafts are subject to external evaluation by a panel at expert-level or educational seminars by PIR Center or in similar formats. Only drafts accepted by the expert panel are submitted for peer review and, if positive, for publication in the Series.
Annually, on November 15, The Evstafiev Series Selection Committee announces its decision on the Evstafiev Award. Gennady M. Evstafiev (1938–2013) is an outstanding Soviet and Russian WMD nonproliferation and global security expert. He devoted the last ten years of his life to PIR Center, where he worked as a Senior Advisor and Senior Vice President. Gennady Evstafiev paid special attention to the progress in creativity and analytical skills of the young generation, considering this to be PIR Center’s – and his own – most important mission.
List of winners of the Evstafiev Award:
- In 2021 – Sergey Semenov, Strategic Offensive Arms Control in Russia-U.S. Relations: Lessons Learned
- In 2022 – Leonid Tsukanov, The Ups and Downs of the Cyber Caliphate: Al-Qaeda* and ISIS* in the digital space
- In 2023 – Alexandra Zubenko, The Role of Nuclear Weapons in France’s Modern Strategic Culture
The requirements for the works submitted to the contest are here.
In 2023, the III Evstafiev Award took place within the framework of the Global Security: A View from Russia for the Youth Around the World project, with the support of the Presidential Grants Foundation.
The Award this year is 300 000 rub.
The Commission on the Legacy of Lieutenant General Gennady M. Evstafiev and PIR Center Executive Board members will announce the competition’s results on November 15 during a ceremonial meeting celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Yaderny Kontrol Journal, PIR Center’s flagship publication.
If you are willing to take part in the competition, please send the entry to PIR Center Information & Publications Program Coordinator Maksim Sorokin at editor@pircenter.org with the note: For the competition – Evstafiev Series no later than October 15, 2024.
