On December 23 and 25, the Institute of Geography of the АRMSE held exams in preparation for their doctoral dissertation defenses.

One candidate participated in the exams in Soil Science, two in Ecology, one in Land Scaling, Land Reclamation, and Land Conservation, and one in Physical Geography and Biogeography, Soil Science, and Landscape Geophysics and Geochemistry. Three candidates also passed the exam with distinction in preparation for their doctoral dissertation defenses.

The examination committee awarded the doctoral students the appropriate scores.