Heads and teachers of structural divisions, students and graduates of the University, representatives of the regional administration and the city took part in the ceremony. With words of congratulations to the Masters, the head of the Education Department of Rostov-on-Don Victoria Chernyshova, the chairman of the united council of students Anastasia Kalosha, the director of the Institute of Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Science Mikhail Karyakin and others also addressed. This year, a special feature of the ceremony was a small lecture from graduates and university staff in the TED format: with the farewell words, the director of the GTRK "Don-TR" Vyacheslav Kovalev, the scientific director of SFedU, the academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Minkin and the rector of SFedU Marina Borovskaya addressed the masters. The ceremony was completed by students with Gaudeamus.