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• This Week in St. Petersburg: July 18-24, 2024

  … still something tourists (or locals) would stop by if they want to bring something special yet practical back home. But at this exhibition, you’ll get to peek into the very history of the factory and the intricate porcelain sculptures it produced in the mid-19th to early-20th centuries. Perhaps unexpectedly, all the exhibited sculptures are pure white, which only fu…

  17.07.2024

• Be Your Own Tour Guide: Online Tools for Exploring St. Petersburg

  …hometown, you can contribute to the project by uploading them to the website. It's a great opportunity to share your perspective and add to the collective knowledge of urban history. Follow the tag Unexplored St. Petersburg to plan your next adventure in the city!…

  16.07.2024

• This Week in St. Petersburg: July 11-17, 2024

  …g, gifted a part of its collection to the Manege Central Exhibition Hall. This exhibition is meant to introduce the public to contemporary artists, as well as trace back the history of Pushkinskaya-10 and its unique art collection. Expect to be transported to the art center’s original location, recreated at Manege, down to the decorative elements mirroring the center…

  10.07.2024

• 5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About ITMO

  …o any international student: Lomonosova St. 9, home to the International Office. Even though this campus had only become part of ITMO within the past decade, its educational history goes back centuries; namely, to 1871, when a new building, complete with its own church, was erected for the Imperial Commercial College. Yes, you heard it right, a church! Even today, th…

  09.07.2024

• No Hot Water? No Problem! How To Deal With the Summer Water Shutoff in Russia

• Skeletons and Scientific Wonders: 5 Exhibits To See in the Kunstkamera

  …r Another item of interest in the Peter’s Kunstkamera section of the museum is a set of extracted teeth – not just any teeth, but those pulled by Peter the Great himself. History has it that the tzar had an interest in dentistry: he did well and truly enjoyed pulling his subjects’ teeth – and now the fruits of his dental endeavors (32 teeth in all) are displayed a…

  05.07.2024

• This Week in St. Petersburg: July 4-10, 2024

  …as performed at Arena di Verona by world-renowned opera voices, including Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov, will be screened at Rodina Cinema next Wednesday. Essentially a love story, it is full of tension and suspense: will Prince Calaf be able to conquer the heart of Princess Turandot, solving her three riddles, or will he perish in his attempts? Discover the full b…

  03.07.2024

• T-Bank’s Vice President for Business Technologies Speaks AI Assistants and Gives Career Advice to ITMO Students

  … this, developers and bank leaders gather together to talk about employee growth, the expense-and-income ratio, as well as the amount of effort and resources needed to reach a story point. Based on these metrics, they will form an efficiency rate, which will show whether a product is on track or not.  Six career advice from T-Bank’s Vice President Know what…

  02.07.2024

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #58

  …Research Every once in a while, we have to write a news story that sounds like something out of sci-fi. Take this one, for instance: a team from ITMO’s Faculty of Physics has devised a system that “binds and controls particles of light and matter.” Sounds wild, right? And yet, that’s exactly what it does! The technology, in fact, is a curious middle ground in t…

  01.07.2024

• Discovery of the Month: Art World, Mobile Games, and More

  …true that classical music can be considered somewhat snobbish. Your job as a listener is to not show up in jeans and not cough. But Anna takes you on a journey through music history and theory in a way that is both thrilling and educational, and lightyears away from snobbish. I didn’t think I’d ever put “music” and “makes sense” in one sentence, but there it is. The …

  28.06.2024