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• Russia's Firsts at the Oscars

  …First nomination and win Amid World War II, Moscow Strikes Back (1942) made history as the first Soviet film to receive the prestigious award as the best documentary feature, along with three other winning works. Made on the request of Soviet commander Joseph Stalin, the film is a striking record of a key turning point in the war – the Battle of Moscow – and the p…

  25.02.2025

• This Week in St. Petersburg: February 20-26, 2025

  …ioneers Louis Daguerre and Henry Fox Talbot – through a display of over 100 rarely-shown images taken since the 1840s. The expo is a follow-up to the gallery's series on the history of photography. …

  19.02.2025

• ITMO’s Student Brigades Turn 75

  … official student brigade was founded by students of Lomonosov Moscow State University’s Faculty of Physics in 1958 – now considered the starting point of the organization's history. The tradition of student brigades continued through the breakup of the USSR; on February 17, 2004 the youth movement was officially re-established. A year later, in 2015, February 17 was…

  17.02.2025

• Best Russian Online Services for Work and Studies

  …sts for lead generation and includes a bunch of ready-to-use templates that can help you get started. That’s it for today! To learn about even more useful services, see our story Must-Have Apps in Russia.…

  17.02.2025

• Student Spotlight: Nguyen Phuong, Vietnam

  …ent cultures and experiences. Hanoi is such a historic city. What was it like growing up there? Hanoi is over a thousand years old and every street, every corner holds a story. I spent my childhood near Văn Miếu (Temple of Literature), also known as Quốc Tử Giám – Vietnam’s first university. My grandmother would take me for walks around Giám Lake in the evening…

  13.02.2025

• This Week in St. Petersburg: February 13-19, 2025

  …ss summer with all its vibrant colors in the middle of gray St. Pete February, there is no better remedy than a Wes Anderson movie. This particular one is a coming-of-age love story about two teenage soulmates who decide to run away into the wilderness to escape a world filled with adults who don’t understand them. Just for an hour and a half, you get to run away wit…

  12.02.2025

• 6 Comic Books and Graphic Novels for Science Lovers

  … be described as a comic book in the most classic sense of the word. After all, it doesn’t even seem to have a protagonist or a plot! Instead, it examines the whole of human history through weather phenomena. Weather decides the course of wars, tests humanity’s resilience, and shapes the fates of entire civilizations. Written, illustrated, and even lettered with a…

  11.02.2025

• Russian Science Day: ITMO’s Young Researchers Share Their Visions of the Future

  …R Path to science. As a kid, I never imagined I’d be a scientist. I began to study the English language when I was six, and my role model was my grandmother, a teacher of history and social sciences. It seemed to me that I’d go into those fields, as well. But my destiny was different. In high school, I got into chemistry after a teacher had shown me how experiment…

  08.02.2025

• Fun & Light-Hearted Russian Literature

  … Scarlet Sails by Alexander Grin Type of fun: happy ending This story, sure thing, won’t leave you screaming and crying in depression – only in happiness. It follows a girl, Assol, who continues to believe in her dream, aka Prince Charming, despite all the hardships that fall upon her. Of unwavering faith and big dreams, the story

  07.02.2025

• ITMO Scientists Simplify Nanomaterials Design With ML Model

  …ays Ksenia Kapranova, the author of the project and a Master’s student at ITMO’s Center for AI in Chemistry (ChemBio Cluster).  This is the first time in scientific history that such a technology is used to predict the exchange shift. However, earlier, a team from ITMO has already used an ML model to predict the form and size of nanoparticles, as well as som…

  07.02.2025