Awarded the "Educator" Award

On Thursday, November 20, the Russian Academic Youth Theater in Moscow hosted a ceremony of presenting the annual prize in the field of popular science literature "Enlightener".

According to TASS , in the nomination "Natural Sciences" the prize was received by Asya Kazantseva for the book "Who would have thought? How the brain makes us do nonsense. ” It tells about the achievements of biological science and the characteristics of the human psyche and behavior. The organizers of the award noted that they were attracted by "an easy language that the book was written, as well as the fact that Kazantseva builds the theory during the narrative and refutes them."

In the nomination "Humanitarian Sciences" Sergey Yarov became the laureate. In his book “Everyday Life of the Blockade Leningrad”, on the basis of hundreds of sources, including previously unpublished, he recreated “The picture of the daily life of Leningraders during the blockade, which is largely different from the one that we knew before.”

“The main thing in this book is the evidence of the blockade themselves, who force the reader to empathize and make it human,” said Yarov. “The publication of this kind of books is primarily a moral act.”

Laureates received 700 thousand rubles each, the remaining finalists - 100 thousand rubles each. In addition, they will give a cycle of lectures in different cities of Russia. Publishers of laureates books are awarded with cash certificates with a dignity of 130 thousand rubles for promoting books in the market.

Jury Chairman of 2014 - President of the Polytechnic Museum Boris Saltykov. Also in the jury, the entrance physicist and translator Alexei Semikhatov, a poet, a mathematician, Honored Teacher of Russia Yevgeny Bunimovich, as well as a philologist, winner of the 2013 Prize Viktor Sonkin.