This is an announcement for the paper "A proof of uniqueness of the Gurarii space" by Wieslaw Kubis and Slawomir Solecki. Abstract: We present a short and elementary proof of isometric uniqueness of the Gurarii space. Archive classification: math.FA Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B04, 46B20 Remarks: 6 pages Submitted from: kubis@math.cas.cz The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1110.0903 or http://arXiv.org/abs/1110.0903