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The Many Kremlins of Russia
…Kremlins are traditional Russian fortified citadels mostly built around 14-17th centuries consisting of huge walls and towers that protect a city’s very heart, its most ancient core, which often includes the main local cathedral and administrative buildings. Back in the day, capturing the kremlin meant seizing the entire city. In the Novgorod and Pskov Republics, …
22.08.2022
Study and Teach: How to Become a Top-Notch Lecturer with ITMO.Mentors
…Inside the program ITMO.Mentors kicked off in September 2020, amidst the pandemic and the switch to online learning, not only to give students the opportunity to try their hand at teaching and then join the university’s staff in the future but also reduce the teaching load by letting mentors partially take over some of the lecturers’ responsibilities. Impleme…
22.08.2022
Urban Beauty: Where to Find Street Art in St. Petersburg
…Level one: museums These days, street art has turned into an institutionalized art form, meaning that you can now enjoy the pieces at museums and art galleries, like your usual Rembrandt or Monet. Here in St. Petersburg, we are lucky to have Russia’s first open-air street art museum, located at a vacated factory facility. With weekly tours of the exhibition availa…
19.08.2022
Traveling at the Speed of Light: What Is Special Relativity?
…ne. These transformations differed from the common Galilean ones and predicted unusual new effects that accompany the movement of bodies at near-light speeds. In 1905, Albert Einstein merged the contemporary ideas in physics and math to produce one coherent special theory of relativity (or special relativity for short). What is the theory about? Special rel…
18.08.2022
Meet the Minds Behind ITMO’s English Social Media
…al articles. Vadim works primarily on translations, proofreads, and original articles and Maryam also proofreads and is responsible for coordinating the English as a Medium of Instruction teacher training program, ITMO blogs, and other educational initiatives at ITMO University. What’s your social media strategy? Vadim: We focus on reaching out to students and…
18.08.2022
ITMO Student Makes App to Play Music With Emotions
… Face Music Control, which he defended as his graduation project at the Bachelor’s program Computer Technologies in Design. With this app, users can manipulate various musical instruments in real-time using only their emotions. This way, the app automates the editing process and produces music following users’ expectations. As noted by the developer, installations and try to determine what is it that moves: the environment or the emotional state of the characters that inhabit it? As usual, there are no wrong or right answers in this quest. …
17.08.2022
Making Sense of the Russian Grading System
…ding scale. Here, 5 is the highest, 2 is the lowest, and 1 denotes misbehavior. For example, if a student takes a test and gets it all wrong, they’ll receive a 2, and if they, instead of doing the test, start a fight with their classmate, that’s a solid 1. Since grades are always whole numbers, without decimals like in Switzerland (where you may get a 5.5 out of 6…
16.08.2022
ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #12
…repreneurship have recently enjoyed the chance to show off their FoodTech innovations to the executives and owners of some of Russia’s top fast food franchises, health food chains, and production companies. The students’ projects, which combined advanced tech and research with marketing savvy, ranged in subject from vegan foods and smart packing to… edible tablewa…
15.08.2022
Russian Team Triumphs at International Olympiad in Informatics 2022
…ne silver medals. The gold medals were awarded to Alexander Babin from School No. 149 in Krasnoyarsk, Danil Klishch from the Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No. 31 in Chelyabinsk, and Vsevolod Nagibin from the educational center and gymnasium No. 6 Gornostay in Novosibirsk, whereas the silver one went to Fedor Romachov from the Advanced Educational Scientific Cente…
15.08.2022