 On numerous occasions Viktor Sadovnichiy was accused of being one of the organizers of the infamous antisemitic admission policies of the 
Department of Mechanics and Mathematics during the 1970s and the 1980s
.Sadovnichiy has been a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1994, Doctor Emeritus of many universities throughout the world, as well as the author of some 150 works.In 1989 he was awarded with the USSR State Prize.