On March 13, 2023, the winners of the Russian Government scholarship program in priority areas of modernization and technological development of the Russian economy for the 2nd semester of the 2022/2023 academic year were announced. 39 students of Kazan Federal University (KFU) became scholarship holders, including two 2nd year Master's students of the Laboratory of Intelligent Robotic Systems (LIRS) (Institute of Information Technologies and Intelligent Systems (ITIS)) – Artem Apurin and Eldar Mingachev.
A special government scholarship is provided to full-time students studying in specialties that are included in the list of priority areas for the modernization and technological development of the Russian economy. The competition winners are assigned payments in the amount of 5,000 rubles per month from February 1 to August 31, 2023.