• MGRI students celebrated graduation at their own TV show

MGRI students celebrated graduation at their own TV show

On July 7, the official group of MGRI "VKontakte" aired a special edition of the "Today Show with Ivan Sokolov", dedicated to the Graduation-2020. 

For filming, the stage of the MGRI Assembly Hall turned into a real TV Studio. A large team — representatives of the University administration, student activists, invited actors and technical specialists worked on the one-hour edition of the "Today Show with Ivan Sokolov". 

"Today Show with Ivan Sokolov" combines the familiar elements of a famous evening show and a traditional offline graduation. The roles of the host and co-hosts were performed by actors Ivan Sokolov, Roman Martynyuk and Alexandra Khalipskaya.

The first guest of the program was one of the first MGRI "graduates" Artemiy Artemich performed by Faridun Akhunov. Thanks to this episode, the graduates remembered the history of MGRI and the first years of the Institute, as well as the practice that students of this year passed during their studies.

Sergey Mironov, head of the “Fair Russia” faction in the State Duma, Inna Svitenko, Deputy of the Moscow City Duma, member of the Federation Council, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on social policy, and Sergey Gorkov, General Director and Chairman of ROSGEO corporation, congratulated the graduates.

The second guest of the program Vladimir Kulikov, the acting rector, the first vice-rector and also a graduate of MGRI, who came to the Institute as a schoolboy in 1976, congratulated his future colleagues on their graduation. The third guest was rector’s advisor and producer of the band "Laskovy May" Andrey Razin.


The main guests were graduates Alexandra Korolyova and Daniel Poati. They recalled their admission, the most memorable moments of student life, and which of the teachers influenced them the most during their studies.

Despite the fact that one of the main parts of any graduation — the presentation of diplomas — had to be omitted due to the current situation, the names of the best graduates were announced by Vladimir Kulikov, and some of the guys even appeared on the air — in short videos created with the help of Instagram masks.

The music was provided by the group "Vegetables" - Anastasia Alexandrova, Nai Al-Khalife, Maria Bakhtina, Sevil Mamedova, Nikita Sosna and Daniel Poati. MGRI student Amir Mukhametzjanov also performed his own song "Graduate" written for this event. The musical guests at the end of the program were the group "Dubki band".

If you missed the live broadcast, you can see the online graduation in the record in the official group of the University "VKontakte" and on our YouTube channel.