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• Curious Things You Might Not Know About St. Petersburg

  …g trees and bushes, and installing protective screens. This is based on some local website reviews, personal research and subjective/professional point of view. On the image I share, I show an example of a better urban planning solution that could have been more successful in protecting the population from the wind. Not the first, but the second deepest metro …

  16.02.2018

• New adventure in Russia? Welcome on board!

  …so we can overcome some challenges and in return, we become an angel for someone else in need". When I came I was lucky enough to make friends with a Greek girl, we decided to share the room at the dorm as well as some basic expenses, such as kitchen appliances, soap and cleaning products. We go out sometimes and discuss several topics when we don't know how to respo…

  30.01.2018

• Hello, world!

  …ence of studying in three different Universities. The funny thing is I see more correlation between studying in ITMO and UPF, not between SPbSU and ITMO and I would be glad to share some impressions about that later on. My degree is hardly understandable, so let's call it Telematica Engineering as they do here, in Barca. It relates to communications, networks, but al…

  26.10.2017

• A Second Home

  … are ridiculously cheap, and really, you get used to having to take quite the walk just to take a shower. Although to be fair I do miss having my own bathtub and not having to share the toilet with the whole floor. In this dormitory building, there’s also a cafeteria, a study room, a gym and a sports hall. Personally, I have never eaten in the dormitory’s cafeteria …

  10.04.2017

• University Life Goes Beyond the Campus

  …hich included throwing axes, hay sack fighting, bow and arrow shooting, sword fighting, among others. After having some fun, we then proceeded to our main destination. Vyborg shares something in common with Saint Petersburg in that they are more "European-like" or more "Western" cities. However, whereas Saint Petersburg was founded while being part of Russia — by Pe…

  13.02.2017

• A freshman’s first month in Saint Petersburg