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• 2019 Guide to May Holidays in St. Petersburg

  …ies on your way? The St. Petersburg’s Lobbies Festival through Vasilievsky Island will take you back in time to the pre-revolutionary Russia and give you an insight into the history of our magnificent city, its architects, and the lifestyle of its inhabitants. The tours kick off at 10:30am, 12:30pm, 5pm, and 7pm on May 3. The detailed schedule is available in the eve…

  30.04.2019

• Polytechnic Museum’s Curator Alexey Semikhatov: Logic and Math Help Us Predict the Unknown

  … that allow us to drive vehicles in extreme conditions can also help further our understanding of the world. This is the very idea that lies at the foundation of the famous story about Isaac Newton and the apple that, reportedly, fell on his head while the scientist moongazed and prompted Newton’s discovery of the law of gravity. It was then that two key things we…

  30.04.2019

• Master’s Degree ++ Conference: The Plenary Session in Review

  …xoz University, a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and an associate professor at Stanford University. The vast research interests of the expert span literature, history and politics of both Russia and modern Central Asia. Speaking at the conference, Andrew Wachtel shared his vision of prospects for using digital tools in education and explained why the o…

  29.04.2019

• Dragon Anatomy and Folk Tales: Physicist and Anthropologist Discuss Game of Thrones

  …ive model, a new way of thinking. Taking into account these fairy tale archetypes, we can make a few solid guesses on who is destined to sit on the Iron Throne when the story ends. Finally, I’d like to suggest a list of related literature on the topic: Victor Turner – The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure; Mary Douglas – Purity and Danger…

  26.04.2019

• English Teachers Unite at NATE Convention

  … come together,” says Rachel Koch It was a great privilege for ITMO University to host the milestone 25th NATE Convention, and together with all participants review its history and the role of NATE in the development of best practices and know-hows in the sphere of English language teaching.…

  25.04.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 27-28

  …exhibition that intends to serve as a reminder of the indeed heartbreaking fragility of centuries-old historical landmarks. Part of the collection of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, the display features a variety of etchings and lithographs of the sublime Notre Dame cathedral over the ages by the masterful French graveurs and artists Adam Pérelle, …

  24.04.2019

• The Magic of Russian May Holidays

  …er fortress. We watched the sky turn technicolor with rainbows after a rainstorm. The fact that my grandparents almost forgot me on the other side of the Ilmen Lake is another story. It gave me nightmares through high school. Many trips came after this one. I did a good job “behaving”. I only wish my grandparents were still here and now I could take them on a road…

  23.04.2019

• Internship at Huawei: 5G Networks and Robots in Hotels

  …hese 40 years, its population has exceeded the one of Moscow. We even went to the village where the first colonists lived. Apart from that, we visited the Shenzhen Museum of History and attended a massive light show. About 5G technology In fact, the entire internship revolved around 5G technology. 5G is a new kind of network that will allow for improvements in …

  22.04.2019

• Places to See: Modern and Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg

  …and, so far, only museum of street art has found itself a very fitting venue: a vacant facility of an operational laminated plastics factory. Founded in 2012 to document the history of street art, an ephemeral art form by nature, the museum has been well-received by both art critics and the general audience; even the factory staff, it is said, have grown fond of thei…

  19.04.2019

• Genome Analysis Shows Common Ancestry Among Pskov, Novgorod, Yakutia Populations

  …the group analyzed the data of 264 representatives of 55 ethnic groups. Using specialized software developed at ITMO University, the researchers predicted the demographic history of three of these samples. That included various information on these groups’ development: when and how they split up, how their numbers increased, and for which reasons they migrated. …

  19.04.2019