The 100th anniversary of academician Boris Paton

November 27, 2018, marked the 100th birth anniversary of an outstanding scientist, Boris Ye. Paton, a permanent president of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1962, an initiator and the president for several years of the International Association of Academies of Sciences, the world-renowned specialist in the field of metallurgy and metal technology, the author of more than 1000 publications, and the founder and the head of a major scientific school. On his birthday, a meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences was held, and the ceremony was conducted in absentia of B.Ye. Paton, who has always been and remains a permanent friend and admirer of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Here we present a review of speeches at the meeting of Russian colleagues, close associates of B.Ye. Paton, who gathered to mark the remarkable anniversary of an outstanding man and a scientist, an excellent organizer of science.