Performance of Monte Carlo event generators of pp collisions at NICA energies

This paper presents an overview of Monte Carlo(MC) event generators for simulation of proton-proton collisions along with the results on hadron production at Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) energies. Namely, mean multiplicities, mean transverse momenta, and rapidity distributions of p($\bar{\rm p}$), $\mathrm{K}^{\pm}$, $\pi^{\pm}$ at different collision energies are presented. We also study two-particle angular correlations for stable charged particles. Results of MC simulations are compared to available data. Connections of studied quantities with physics mechanisms in MC generators are discussed.