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• Victory Day in St. Petersburg: A Retrospective

  …the evening of May 8, 1945, when Nazi Germany signed its surrender to the Allies, it was already past midnght of the next day in Moscow. Thus, Soviet citizens learned the good news in the early morning of May 9. To the citizens of Leningrad, this was a mere 14 months after the city had been fully liberated from under a 872-day siege that took the lives of appr…

  08.05.2020

• ITMO University During the Second World War

  …ise Mechanics and Optics (ITMO’s former name), the summer of 1941 began as usual. Everyone was taking exams, completing their theses, and waiting for summer vacation. However, news of an impending war reached Demidova Lane, 10 (nowadays called Grivtsova Lane, 14-16), the only campus of LITMO at the time. On June 21, a day before the war began, Sergei Shikanov, the…

  08.05.2020

• Lectorium 2.0: How Culture Goes Online

  …ts will no longer be as it was. If several years back, the question of whether cultural institutions need social media or not was still open, now they have become a necessity. New platforms and ways of communicating with the audience is something that now even representatives of the most tradition-bound institutions actively discuss.  Kunstkamera “Can’t s…

  08.05.2020

• NTI Olympiad Winner Vsevolod Kosarev: The Best Prize is Knowing Where to Go Next

  … company, Medis Group, commissioned in their task description. A week before the finale, we were provided with supplementary materials, which were changed a bit because of the new online format. We had to choose in advance a platform on which we’d develop our solution. The choice was between a desktop, mobile, or web application. We went with the latter since our tea…

  07.05.2020

• What Is Stress and How to Cope With It During Self-Isolation

  … deadline is approaching, noradrenaline helps us complete a task quickly and efficiently. Dopamine is responsible for the feeling of satisfaction. It’s produced when we get new information, knowledge, and skills. Learning satisfies our need for novelty and activates several brain parts at the same time: stem structures and parietal lobe, which are responsible for …

  07.05.2020

• Suvorov Canals: Russia and Finland to Cooperate on Development of Important Historical Objects

  …nd is of interest to both the Finnish and the Russian side. The main goal of the project Suvorov Canals – from Forgetness to Tourism Fortress is to attract public interest and new businesses for the development of event and ecotourism within the Russian and Finnish territories.  “The history of these canals (Kutvele, Käyhkää, Kukonharju and Telataipale), the pur…

  07.05.2020

• Lead Analyst at Mail.ru Group Anatoly Karpov: Statistics are Available to Anyone

  … divide between those who study humanities and those who study STEM. Do you think it is an actual divide, or is it just an excuse people use when they are not ready to welcome new ideas? Obviously, there is a divide because there are people who study literature and like it more than maths, and there are other people who study maths and it attracts them more than l…

  07.05.2020

• Anna Gelfand on Life at Home During a Pandemic

  …enter.  On the weekends, I mostly spend my time doing household chores, and of course, do the mandatory trip to the grocery store. On Sundays, I update myself on the latest news using “Редакция” (Redaktsia). The team there offers the news of the past week in a short and humorous way. I also find online concerts and festivals a great …

  07.05.2020

• Beginner’s Guide to Submitting Your Research to Scopus and Web of Science Journals

  … a universal principle. Some of the older and once-respected journals no longer have the same authority, while major and renowned publishing houses like Springer Nature launch new journals every now and then. Can I submit an article to two different journals at the same time? Scientists advise vehemently against this, as such an approach goes against scie…

  06.05.2020

• ITMO University Graduate Dmitry Vavulin on His Love for Physics, Science, and Working at Yandex

  …e to the US and study for a Master’s degree there – by the way, this offer came from an ITMO alumna. But I refused. At the time, I was really enjoying my education process, I knew that I had a lot I could learn at ITMO, so I didn’t see any point in leaving for the unknown.  What were you like as a student? Did you have fun or focused on studies 24/7? There was …

  06.05.2020