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• AIMission 2025: ITMO University’s Year in AI Breakthroughs

  At the annual AIMission conference, experts from ITMO’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence presented their key solutions of 2025: from Russia’s first automated AI agent creation system to a new Bachelor’s program. The conference was held under the aegis of the National Strategy for AI Development.

  19.12.2025

• An Introvert’s Guide to Winter Holidays in St. Petersburg

  From mid-November onwards, life gets progressively more holiday-themed. We’ve made this list of places for those times when you want some peace and quiet among all the festivities – a perfect guide for your inner introvert.

  19.12.2025

• 3 Ways To Get Into ITMO Master’s Programs Without Exams in 2026

  Want to skip entrance exams and secure a tuition-free position in a Master’s program of your choice before summer? You can do that at ITMO. Here are three main application shortcuts, plus requirements and useful guides.

  19.12.2025

• ITMO Team Takes Gold at ICPC Northern Eurasia Finals 2025

  The team from ITMO University won gold at the ICPC Northern Eurasia Finals 2025, the semifinals of the world’s largest collegiate programming contest. The championship took place on December 17 in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Almaty, and Tbilisi and brought together 341 teams of the region’s best programmers.

  18.12.2025

• 8 Skills to Help AI Engineers Keep Their Jobs

  In recent years, popular voice assistants like Alice, Siri, and Alexa have evolved from programs capable of fulfilling simple tasks into full-scale AI assistants. With them has evolved the stack of technologies that engineers need to have a grasp on – from voice generation and speech processing to LLMs and generative search. What skills do AI engineers need to build now to keep their jobs tomorrow? That was the topic of a recent lecture given at ITMO’s Yandex space by Valery Stromov, the CEO of Alice and Smart Devices at Yandex. Mr. Stromov heads a team of over 700, with whom he is developing a service now used by about 47 million people. Read on for the highlights of the talk.

  17.12.2025

• Ways to Shake Up Your New Years

  Are you hosting a New Year gathering with friends and looking for fun activities to do? Or maybe you’re thinking of starting a few new traditions with your family? Today, we’re sharing our ideas on how to make your party even more fun, quirky, and cozy – or even everything all at once.

  16.12.2025

• ITMO Tops Russian Universities Digitalization Ranking

  The digital services provider Rostelecom and the Internet Initiatives Development Fund’s Accelerator have unveiled the results of their study of digital transformation efforts by Russian universities. Having analyzed 25 participants of the Priority 2030 national program, the experts ranked the universities by their level of digitalization. The first place is shared by ITMO University and Innopolis.

  16.12.2025

• First Major Alfa-Bank Coworking Space in Russia Opens at ITMO

  ITMO’s main campus on Kronverksky Prospect is now home to a flagship coworking space by ITMO and Alfa-Bank. The new 400+ square-meter space also includes a classroom. Read on to learn more. 

  11.12.2025

• This Week in St. Petersburg: December 11-17, 2025

  As the year moves to its end, all kinds of fun activities in the city certainly don’t. Enjoy this week’s selection, from ballet and opera to markets and exhibitions!

  10.12.2025

• ITMO Students Shine at Yandex Cup

  Recently, the final of the international programming tournament Yandex Cup took place in Istanbul. Among its winners were several ITMO students who ended up with monetary prizes of up to 500,000 rubles, as well as the opportunity to go through a simplified employment process at Yandex. In total, the final welcomed 196 participants from 21 countries.

  08.12.2025