Dushanbe: During a ceremonial act at the Ismaili Centre in Dushanbe (the capital of Tajikistan) on October 2, 2017, the President of the Geographical Association of Tajikistan, Prof. Kholnazar Mukhabbatov, awarded the honorary membership to Prof. Yuri Badenkov, Russian Academy of Sciences, and to Prof. Dr. Hermann Kreutzmann, Freie Universität Berlin.