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• A Peek Into St. Petersburg’s Metro System

  …n after, adding the Finland station to the growing list of train stations accessible via metro. Most of the city’s first metro stations exuded a prototypical Stalinistic austerity, emphasized through imposing proportions and architectonic symmetry, but that approach would soon fade in favor of a more diverse design palette, cascading in the following decades into …

  29.08.2022

• A Mexican Chef’s Journey to Russia

  …oal. I had mine and I turned it into reality. The first thing is to not give up, to trust the process. For me, dreams are more unreal, while goals are everything that can be materialized." More information about Don Garcia can be found here.…

  21.06.2022

• ITMO Graduate Artem Trubin on His Studies and Career

  … at CyberDrone. Here, we create drone light shows. Sometimes, I work on tasks that remind me of what I studied at the university so I can look for solutions in my university materials, too. I believe that the university’s educational and technological environment truly pays off. The university equips students with the skills and experience that will assist them no…

  13.05.2022

• Lake Ladoga: A Quick Getaway from St. Petersburg

  …n either by car (which could take around an hour and a half) or by one of the many buses leaving from St. Petersburg. Staraya Ladoga has so many fortresses, churches, and monasteries that anyone can visit and marvel at. It was founded in 753 CE! Staraya Ladoga was one of the most important trading centers in Eastern Europe from about 800 to 900 CE; even the oldest Ar…

  18.02.2022

• Differences in the Education Systems of the United States and Russia

  …eager to get new knowledge because they choose classes themselves. Nevertheless, in the USA the prices for studying are incredibly high, living in a dorm and eating at the cafeteria ($ 2,633 per semester) are so expensive! For instance, I was living in ITMO’s dormitory on Belorusskaya 6 and I was paying about 1,800 rubles per month. Now I live in a dorm at North Cent…

  14.01.2022

• Phygitality in Art During Times of AI

  …ration with science/engineering companies that look for new ways to use their products in a more creative approach. Fab Labs from different countries are studying processes, materials, and experimentation with several machines for reinforcing the connection from brain to hand and hand to tangible objects. After these years of experimenting with both human and mach…

  21.10.2021

• Checklist: What to Visit in St. Petersburg in 2 Days

  …whiteness and the height of the dome. Climb the belfry to see one of the best panoramas of St. Petersburg. Peter and Paul Cathedral This is the tomb of the emperors. The interior is very beautiful but even if you do not go inside, it is worth exploring one of the main attractions of St. Petersburg, the Peter and Paul Fortress inside which the cathedral is located…

  12.10.2021

• Breakthroughs in Biology and Their Impact on Our Future

  …good example of significant mutations resulting from the work of transposons. Immunity is one big mutation. When the body senses foreign substances (antigens: viruses and bacteria), its immune system works to recognize the antigens and get rid of them. The only way it can do this is to combine a mutated DNA and use it in practice. It is ineffective, at first glance…

  09.09.2021

• Three Great Detective Novels to Check Out

  …e. The family has a good reputation: Mrs. Richardson is a perfect wife and mother, and her children are successful and ambitious. Everything was as it ought to be until the mysterious artist Mia Warren appeared in town. The book touches on several important topics. As you probably guessed, Celeste Ng is a Chinese-American author, so one of the novel’s central conf…

  18.06.2021

• Specialty Coffee Culture in St. Petersburg

  …choose the best brands of coffee beans and usually buy them straight from farmers. Coffee can be graded as "specialty" only if it was made from an extremely high quality raw material. According to Tasty Coffee, one of the biggest roasting companies of specialty coffee in Russia, less than 10% of all Arabica in the world deserves the title. Although in specialty co…

  09.06.2021