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• Born in USSR: Soviet Slang We Still Use

  …ce a government program for teaching people to read and write, today it means an educational crash course. You can say “Спасибо за ликбез!” – “Thanks for likbez!” when someone shares an insight into something new to you. Kolkhoz (колхоз) – “collective” + “farm” (коллективное хозяйство) Initially, kolkhoz meant a big farm where locals worked together …

  13.10.2025

• Million-Ruble Prize Fund and Tasks From Yandex: All About the Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis Olympiad

  …t to be ineffective. Three hours before the finals started, we changed it all, ditching the ensemble and training one large model instead. This is what led us to the victory,” shares Daria Ledneva. The team’s solution proved the most effective and accurate at detecting damage, topping the leaderboard. Daria and Timur received their 600,000-ruble prize at the…

  10.10.2025

• Student Spotlight: Manish Mishra, India

  …fficiency, cleanliness, and aesthetic sense in Russian culture really caught my attention. Is there something about Indian or Kolkata culture that you’re looking forward to sharing with your friends at ITMO? Absolutely! In India, we believe in the saying “atithi devo bhava,” which means “the guest is god.” We love hosting people, showing them our culture, food,…

  09.10.2025

• Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Next-Gen Smart Sorbents

  …aterial: the strength of metal-coordination connections and the flexibility and responsiveness of organic molecules. The high specific surface parameters provided by the large share of free space inside the metal-organic architecture enable the frameworks to absorb and store gas, accelerate organic reactions, and purify water. These capacities can help solve modern p…

  08.10.2025

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #89

  …her ailments, such as salmonella. Read more: AI Pharmacist: ITMO-Developed Algorithm Helps Produce New Efficient Antibiotics University It’s been a minute since we’ve shared an update on ITMO Highpark, our new campus-and-innovation-hub in the south of St. Petersburg. So, here’s one: the construction site was recently visited by St. Petersburg’s Vice Governor…

  06.10.2025

• ITMO Highpark Techno Valley Receives 5 Billion-Ruble Investment

  …f Natsproektstroy group, signed an agreement on a new tramway lane that’ll connect St. Petersburg with Yuzhny satellite city and ITMO Highpark. The route will start from Shushary metro station and along several locations: from Sofiyiskaya Street to Proletarskaya Street in Kolpino, from the South latitudinal highway to the transport interchange hub “19th kilometer”…

  03.10.2025

• Student Spotlight: Suraj Majumdar, India

  …nal crowd? Being around so many international students has helped with my social anxiety. It’s a supportive environment where everyone is figuring things out together. That shared experience made it easier for me to step out of my shell and gain confidence in social situations. Outside of classes, how do you spend your time here? I love exploring the city wi…

  02.10.2025

• ITMO Graduate’s Startup in Top 25 of Sber500 IT Accelerator

  … and investment funds from Russia and other BRICS countries. We plan to reach profitability by the end of 2026 and by this time we want our orders to total 70 million rubles,” shares Kirill Plugin.  This recent achievement isn’t the only one under the team’s belt. In 2024, the team won the Start-1 competition by the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative …

  01.10.2025

• Eco-Horror: What It Is and Why We Love To Fear It

  …s into necrophiliacs; or the massospora, which makes cicadas into zombies with half their body missing. Or it’d be about the collapse of biodiversity. Then there’s mosquitos – sharks kill a few people each year, but these guys kill hundreds of thousands by transmitting infections and parasites. If a zombie apocalypse ever happens, it could well be caused by mosquitoe…

  30.09.2025

• ITMO Scientists Increase Sensitivity of Levitating Particle Sensors

  …l become highly sensitive to external influences. Instead of avoiding difficulties, we decided to study them and potentially use them to create a more precise kind of sensor,” shares Dmitry Shcherbinin, the head of the study and a senior researcher at the Nonlinear Optics of Condensed Media Laboratory of the International Research and Educational Center for Physics o…

  25.09.2025