At a meeting of the Academic Council of St. Petersburg State University, the results of competitive selection for the awards were announced. Among the winners of the St. Petersburg State University Prize for Academic and Methodological Work for 2018 are the members of the Laboratory, Professor Oleg Redkin, and Associate Professor Olga Bernikova. Also at the end of the year Oleg Redkin and Olga Bernikova were awarded the St. Petersburg State University Prize “For Scientific Works” in the category “For Fundamental Achievements in Science” for a series of works entitled “Interdisciplinarity and Innovation in Arabic and Islamic Studies”.