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• Unexplored St. Petersburg: Tauride Palace Orangery

• 15 Popular Science Cartoons on Anything and Everything

  …es about Professions series (1985-87) directed by Boris Akulinichev. Though the piece itself is aimed at children, the adult audience will also like the author’s take on the history of science and his peculiar humor. By the way, you might also want to check out the other parts of the series: for example, Hephaestus's Helpers tells about the metals industry, and Milk …

  26.10.2018

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

  …innish movies, such as Transit, In the Aisles, and Ilosia aikoja, Mielensäpahoittaja, to name just a few (I personally recommend In the Aisles; it’s a very simple yet touching story definitely worth checking out). Movies are screened in their original languages with Russian subtitles. The festivals will be held at Rodina and Aurora cinemas, respectively. Tickets can …

  24.10.2018

• Why Factories Are Once Again Popular Among Young Optics Specialists

  …MIPT, Bauman Technical University, and others. But I ended up choosing ITMO because I wanted to come to St. Petersburg. I’d been there before and I was charmed by the city’s history and atmosphere. As someone from a provincial town, visiting this museum-city was a memorable experience. Did you know right away what you were going to do after university? I was in…

  24.10.2018

• Movie Fridays: Anime's Unsung Heroes

  … in a Lord of the Rings­-ish fantasy world inhabited by weirdly familiar long-haired ethereal creatures and power-hungry monarchs, this eerie and very touching movie tells the story of teenage girl Maquia. She belongs to the Iorph, an ethereal race of immortal beings who hide from mortals in an unseen city and devote their lives to weaving magical cloth to pass down …

  19.10.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 20-21

  …u fall in love with Rome all over again. The ‘Ricordo di Roma’ exhibition will feature best-of the impressive several-thousand Rome depictions the Mansion’s parent Museum of History of St. Petersburg has collected over the years. Tickets, this time, cost a modest three-digit number of 150 rub, and lucky students and pensioners can live it up at 100 rub. The Mansion i…

  17.10.2018

• All St. Petersburg's a Stage: Must-Visit Unusual Theaters

  …r venues in the city, recognized by the audience, critics and press. Masterskaya amazes audiences with the strength and emotional depth of its plays. Whether it is a nostalgic story in the spirit of the Soviet times or the rethinking of the classics (from Shakespeare to Dostoevsky), its non-trivial nature is so captivating that it is almost impossible to remain indif…

  16.10.2018

• Open Innovations 2018: Higher Education in the Digital Age

  …s take Steve Jobs as an example. Wasn’t it his creativity and willingness to see the bigger picture that helped him become one of the most innovative entrepreneurs in modern history?” shared Martin Gitsels. Sergey Mardanov, one of Mail.Ru Group’s Directors, expanded on the Russian experience of business-universities collaboration. According to the expert, the co…

  16.10.2018

• Faculty of Physics and Engineering Staff to Republish Legendary Soviet Physicist’s Works

  …‘The Unusual Laws of Refraction and Reflection’ narrates its story in the form of a lively dialog between the physicist father and his high-schooler son. The explanatory monologs are punctuated with to-the-point remarks and comparisons with physics theory from the school curricula. The narrator often draws analogies between the theory and the real-world phenomena suc…

  15.10.2018

• Work Like a Russian

  …. But even then work often doesn’t stop. The office whatsapp chat is often ablaze well into the evening. Once I was caught in the middle of grocery shopping at night when a story needed to go live. It had to be edited on the spot, then someone proofed it on their tram ride home and someone else posted it almost at midnight. That brings me to another point – dea…

  15.10.2018