On February 21, 2026, M.L. Zakharov, professor, LL.D., who dedicated his entire life to social security law, passed away at the age of 100. Mr. Zakharov's contributions to science are so great that he can be placed on a par with such luminaries as N.A. Vigdorchik, L.V. Zabelin, V.A. Acharkan, V.S. Andreev, and E.I. Astrakhan. He was perhaps the last scholar of their glorious cohort of Soviet legal scholars, whose research results were of the utmost importance not only for the Soviet science of social security law.