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• A Mexican Chef’s Journey to Russia

  …10, the restaurant held a day to celebrate the culture of Nicaragua, where the head chef Gerardo García prepared traditional Nicaraguan foods such as tostones (twice-fried plantains) and queso frito (a fried cheese dish), as well as organized fun activities for all ages to celebrate. I was fortunate enough to be able to conduct a quick interview with chef Gerardo …

  21.06.2022

• The Sea That Was

  …h as Kyzyl-Orda, Baikonur, Chelkar, and Nukus, appearing in the form of a whitish haze, which decreases the transparency of the air. Since salt deposits on the dried bottom contain large amounts of chemical fertilizers and pesticides (used in agriculture and washed from fields into rivers and then into the sea), inhaling such air can negatively affect the health of t…

  06.06.2022

• Student Spotlight: Jorge Eduardo Mayor Fernández, Colombia

  … I’ve missed the most. There are also good things to try here, but after a while you start to miss what you ate in your own country. In my case, there aren’t any plátanos (plantains), lulos (a tropical fruit), or maracuyás (passion fruit) here and I miss them a lot. I used to eat plantains for every lunch back in Colombia. Do you hav…

  31.05.2022

• ITMO Graduate ‪Igor Petranevsky on His Studies and Career Path

  …s doing my student project and asked whether I would help him with an industrial robot manipulator while pointing to a heap of steel that sat in the room’s corner. That was certainly a tempting offer and after I asked Anton Pyrkin (the dean of the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics — Ed.) a million and one questions, I said yes. I can’t for the life of me dea…

  21.04.2022

• Miniature St. Petersburg and Russia

  …e about and floods and fires occur regularly. Visitor engagement is also increased through the employment of a number of buttons that trigger actions such as the opening of certain gates and the movement of carriages. Furthermore, there is a historically accurate ambient track that plays as one moves about the exhibition hall, creating an immersive atmosphere. Clo…

  11.02.2022

• The Women of Computer Science

  … Engine by the Italian engineer Luigi Menabrea. Of note are the comments she made about the machine, which included a sequence of operations that could be employed to solve certain mathematical equations — a "program", if you will. She is thus referred to by some as the first programmer. Perhaps more intriguing is her assertion that the Engine "might act upon …

  18.01.2022

• Software Engineering Student from the USA on Studying in Russia

  … feel like they put more effort into how they dress. However, the weather came as the biggest shock to me. Winter in Russia — after living my whole life in California — was certainly a new experience for me. I’ve had an easy time adjusting to the university, as I've had a lot of support from the professors and other students, who helped me a lot. What do you do ou…

  10.01.2022

• Holiday Markets in St. Petersburg

  … term was borrowed from the most pedigreed lender. Yet St. Petersburg has its own story to tell with regards to these festive gatherings. Christmas has brought with it entertainment and trade ever since the very founding of the city. Even though the tradition of erecting and decorating Christmas trees was only introduced here in the 19th century, it quickly gained…

  23.12.2021

• We Get a Lot of Happiness from the Buddy System

  …our Japan National Night and we cooked together. Thanks to all the support, our Japan Night was a huge success. In addition to that, they booked us at the Mazapark entertainment center from 0:00 to 6:00 so that we could play various sports. Those at the Buddy System are always looking for ways to entertain us and help us have fun…

  19.11.2021

• An Intercultural Reunion

  …versity for a week, based on the partnership between Kindai University, where I studied, and ITMO. We had our first class in English. The content of the class was about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), discussing how we can solve the goals to be achieved by 2030. The teacher who taught us was Dr. Irina Shmeleva. I had never had the experience of working in a…

  15.10.2021