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• Find Us at @itmo_uni

  As of yesterday, you can find ITMO University’s official English social media pages under the new @itmo_uni handle, including VK, Twitter, and Telegram. But how did this name come to be and what does it actually stand for?

  11.08.2022

• itmo.ru: The Best Birthday Present

  On March 26, ITMO University turned 118. One of the best presents was from its alum Yuri Luzhkov, who gave the university the domain name itmo.ru. The transfer was managed by ITMO University Alumni Association and in part funded by ITMO Endowment Fund. As a student at the Department of Computational Technologies, Luzhkov created and developed an alternative, student portal. In the early 2000’s, before the rise of social networks, students could find study materials, share music and make friends at itmo.ru. Here’s how the first student-driven site was created, what kind of content was popular 15 years ago and what current university sites should look like. 

  26.03.2018