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• University Life Goes Beyond the Campus

  …ore arriving to Vyborg we visited a little settlement of Vikings called "Svargas". Svargas is a small fortress that is, not an actual surviving Viking fortress, but rather a reconstruction — albeit a very good one — of a real Viking settlement that used to exist a long time ago there even before Russia was founded. We had a lot of fun in that fortress. The people th…

  13.02.2017

• Saint Petersburg: a city of wonders

• Time keeps going, and it doesn’t stop

  …"smart" theatre with the knowledge we’ve acquired. The department in which I study (Wireless Telecommunications) organized a trip to the Museum of Communications, which includes collections of the different methods of communicating across large distances, from the most primitive, being the letter and courier services, to the most modern such as the different devices …

  14.11.2016

• Life in the Northern Capital

  …0 minutes by foot from the dormitory, and the just recently restored Cruiser Aurora, also located at about 40 minutes walking distance, which was towed back from back from the construction yard to its usual place just when I was writing the entrance exams. Not far from the dormitory, just five minutes walking distance, there’s also a really nice garden park — Lopukhi…

  24.10.2016

• Every story has an ending, but in life endings are new beginnings

  …Russians — and of course, a handful of snowmen and snowball fights; the sun finally arose, and the trees began getting green as the days passed. The weather was pleasant and new attractions came in sight: the amusement park on Krestovskiy Island, skating and biking on the streets and so on. The outside of the city is also a big attractio

  30.09.2016

• Green Light to Medicine! Fluorescence: from a Mysterious Phenomenon to Medication

  …minescence. Their main benefit is features of the matrix consisting of transparent zirconium or hafnium oxide. Unlike organic elements, these matrices are resistant to chemical interaction with bio molecules of organisms, and their mechanical strength is very high. Thanks to these features nothing can affect luminescent characteristics of activating ions, as they loo…

  13.07.2016