February 7, 2018, on the occasion of the celebration of the 112th anniversary of Oleg Antonov, students of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Law headed by the Director of the Institute Irina Sopilko and the department heads visited the State Aviation Museum.
The solemn event was opened by the Director of the State Aviation Museum Yuri Ziatdinov, who noted that thanks to the genius, the outstanding aircraft designer Oleg Antonov, Ukraine now proudly bears the name of the world's leading aviation power. "Under the leadership of Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov, popular passenger airliners and the largest transport planes became the symbols of Ukraine as an aviation state," said NAU rector Vladimir Isayenko. Anna Antonova, a professor at NAU, the daughter of an outstanding aircraft designer noted the great work of museum staff in collecting and describing exhibits. "Let my father's name continue to help the museum," she said. At the end of the celebration, the President of the Federation of Aircraft Sports of Ukraine, a multiple participant of the World and European Championships, Vladimir Prisyajnyuk, was presented with the director of the museum with a new name: "The State Museum of Aviation named after O.K. Antonov National Aviation University".