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• Unexplored St. Petersburg: Tacos and Tracks at Berthold Center

  A creative space complete with cafes and artisan stores, this is the perfect place to mix with the local Gen Y crowd.

  14.06.2019

• 8 International Summer Schools to Attend This Summer

  Every year, ITMO University students participate in winter and summer schools in Russia and abroad. This is a great opportunity to enhance your skills, broaden your horizons, and establish useful connections that will come in handy in your future career. The best thing about such schools, though, is that the university covers up to 70% of all expenses. All you have to do is to apply for participation and financial support. Apart from summer and winter schools, you can take part in various conferences, workshops, competitions, championships, research internships, and other activities. In this article, we’ll tell you all about the best international summer schools to attend this summer and how to get there.

  14.06.2019

• Perfect Day in St. Petersburg

  It’s a beautiful June day in St. Petersburg, and a holiday on top! Here’re some of our favorite ways to spend a great day in the city.

  12.06.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: June 12 and June 15-16

  We Russians love public holidays, we really do: after all, what can be better than an extra day off? Only an extra day off during the white nights in St. Petersburg, when you can boat through the canals, watch the bridges being drawn, and walk all through the night. June 12 is exactly that kind of day, because this is when people celebrate Russia Day, which means that there’ll be no shortage of cool events for you to attend.

  11.06.2019

• Crash Course in Photonics: Part 1

  What is photonics? For one, it is a highly promising field of research that holds the key to our future. But what’s so great about it, and why is it about to kick regular electronics’ butt? Learn the answer in our illustrated series about a bright little fella called Photon.

  11.06.2019

• My Game Plan for Summer in St. Petersburg

  How do I plan to spend my summer in St Petersburg? Besides catching up with friends and mushroom hunting, here’s what’s on my list:

  10.06.2019

• Fleabag Season Two: Unbreak My Heart, Dammit

  The eponymous heroine is back in a dazzling second run of BBC Three’s tragicomedy Fleabag. With her ever-uptight sister tentatively at her side, creepy godmother at the opposite, and one very mysterious padre loitering on the horizon, will this be a happy adventure?

  07.06.2019

• Gennady ‘Tourist’ Korotkevich: My First Defeat Only Made Me Want to Win More

  What does a two-time world champion in competitive programming do as a student? Why does he continue to take part in competitions, and how does he choose them? Would he like to be named “Hero of Belarus”? Gennady Korotkevich, a PhD student at ITMO University and the recent entrant of Sobaka.ru Magazine’s Top-50 People of St. Petersburg list, answered these and other questions in an interview with Prof. Anatoly Shalyto, himself a member of Sobaka.ru’s 2017 edition of the Top-50, and Lidia Perovskaya, ITMO graduate and producer of ICPC World Finals live broadcasts.

  06.06.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: June 8-9

  Cats breaking loose, two contemporary art exhibitions, a music concert in the Summer Garden, and a festival of local cuisines from around the world: this weekend in St. Petersburg promises to be a good one!

  05.06.2019

• ITMO Is Placed Third in National IT Ranking

  The ranking agency RAEX has just unveiled its first ever ranking in the field of IT (initiated as part of the federal “Human Resources for Digital Economy” project). ITMO was placed third out of all 50 universities included in the ranking. ITMO University also continues its rise to the top of the agency’s annual ranking of Russian universities, having gone up from 15th place last year to 14th place in 2019. The results of the tenth National University Ranking (NUR 2019) by the international news agency Interfax were also published today. ITMO retained its position in the top-10 Russian universities, ranking ninth in the overall standing.

  04.06.2019