According to the Resolution of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences No. 24 of 6 February 2024, the Academician Veksler Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences for 2024 is presented to a group of scientists from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. JINR Director, RAS Academician Grigory Trubnikov, Acting Director of the Laboratory of High Energy Physics at JINR Andrey Butenko, and Deputy Head of the VBLHEP JINR Accelerator Department for Scientific Work Anatoly Sidorin received the Prize for the “Multifunctional complex of heavy ion accelerators — NICA Collider injector” series of works.

The Veksler Prize is awarded by the Division of Physical Sciences of RAS triennially for outstanding work in the field of accelerator physics.