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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 9-10, 2022

  …e.  On Sunday, April 10, at 3 pm at the Small Hall, you will have the opportunity to discover or enjoy once again the music created by St. Petersburg composers Lyadov, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and Sviridov. The pieces will be performed by the Choir of the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory and acclaimed pianists. Tickets can be found here.  Fina…

  06.04.2022

• Any Crisis Is an Opportunity: Russian Entrepreneurs on Business Prospects for Students

  …nture funding. Companies that can offer clear solutions, fulfill their clients’ pressing needs, and quickly recoup their costs are the ones that will succeed. In robotics, for instance, that applies to service robots designed for specific purposes. Still, Ilya Chekh says, it’s quite possible to find funding for such projects even now. “Venture funding, for the t…

  05.04.2022

• Expert in Health Economics Ekaterina Aleksandrova on How to Evaluate Well-Being

  …nning smoking outside the university – such measures are unlikely to have any positive effects on the health of students and staff. What kind of interventions could be used instead? For example, in our project at ITMO, we plan to hold consultations with doctors and psychologists – we already have an agreement with a private clinic that is ready to provide us wi…

  05.04.2022

• St. Petersburg Public Transport Reform: QR Tickets and New Routes

  …hese days – and to keep up with the trends, public transport in St. Petersburg is making a move to reduce cash payments on a major portion of the city’s bus routes by July 15. Instead, you can now pay with your credit card, student travel card, Podorozhnik, or a single-use QR ticket purchasable at metro stations or at special kiosks.  So far, cash is not leaving p…

  05.04.2022

• Medical Solutions, Exoskeletons, and New Foods: Latest Projects by ITMO Students

  …opes The scope of the proposed technologies’ applications is quite diverse: it ranges from robotics, optical devices, and photosensors to functional foods and medicine. For instance, Anastasia Kozhina, a PhD student at the Faculty of Engineering Research, is working on a portable two-channel microscope. The device is intended for use in the analysis of biological …

  04.04.2022

• “Don’t Wait Till Someone Notices You” – ITMO Graduate Andrey Guk on Building a Career and Reaching Your Goals

  …d the owners of the company that it was time I became CEO given that I already fulfilled the respective responsibilities. Importantly, I didn’t wait for someone to notice me – instead, I articulated my wish and readiness myself. At my current position, I keep confidently looking towards the future and I don’t expect neither help, nor advice from anyone.  Many …

  04.04.2022

• How Ancients Slavs Greeted New Year in Spring

  … will take place on April 7. That’s when, according to folk beliefs, all creatures – snakes, frogs, bugs – crawl out of their winter burrows and the warmer half of the year begins. Given that this is the ultimate turning point of the year, there were many rituals related to it, such as singing special verses to greet the warmth, washing your face with thawed or sp…

  04.04.2022

• Telegram Channels We Love

  …egram channels I follow are in Russian and most of them are news! But I won't bore you with those details. I have managed to come across a few other channels that are somewhat inspiring. The first is @quote, which offers an inspiring quote each day, sometimes with an image. An example would be "If you have made mistakes, there is alw…

  01.04.2022

• Do Crises Equal New Opportunities? Tech Entrepreneurs on Developing IT and Business in Russia

  …op specialists, on the other hand, still have “something to lose here” and will keep looking for opportunities in the country, adapting to the changing situations. Pavel maintains that there cannot be a universal decision about relocation, because everyone had their own unique position on the market pre-crisis. Finally, everyone has different responsibilities and per…

  01.04.2022

• Lectures on Ethical Hacking, Lab Tours, and Information Security Quizzes: ITMO Welcomes Baltic Science and Engineering Competition Finalists

  …ents have to acquire before they get into university. And the Baltic Competition promotes teamwork and extracurricular activities right in between school and university,” explains Danil Zakoldaev, the dean of the Faculty of Secure Information Technologies.  Several lab tours were organized for the finalists, including a visit to ITMO’s International Scientif…

  31.03.2022