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• Best Apps Used by International Students in Russia

• Spooky Songs to Get You Into Halloween Spirit

  …uilding (no pun intended) a paranoid soundscape through a variety of seemingly ordinary sounds – along with his trademark breed of eerie Americana – Waits masterfully weaves a story that draws you in and never lets you be too sure who’s the real threat: the titular homeowner or his overly vigilant neighbor? Elizaveta Is there anything creepier than a lullab…

  28.10.2022

• Student Spotlight: Daxta Pandey, India

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 29-30, 2022

  …on. This time, you will get to hear musical pieces that are coated with mystery – written either by those who wished to conceal their identity or whose names are now lost to history. What we do know for sure is that their music remains our one way of getting to know their secrets. Films, Books, Languages festival October 27-30, 12 pm - 10 pm St. Petersburg…

  26.10.2022

• Chess in Russia: How the National Sport Is Played at ITMO

  …c subject. Loved by the leaders. Key Soviet leaders, like Vladimir Lenin, were avid players, so many initiatives in the field were granted approval. That was history, but what about now? With Soviet times long gone, is chess still a thing? To learn more about how chess culture is developing at ITMO, we got in touch with Ivan Zakharikov, an ITMO Master…

  25.10.2022

• ITMO Student Wins National ArtMasters Competition

  …d place in another category with our project) and screenwriter Lydia Yartseva, we took inspiration from the legend of Kostroma, a woman who drowned herself after a tragic love story and turned into a mavka (the word for a mermaid in Slavic myths – Ed.). The video starts with Kostroma appearing at one of the city’s museums as an exhibit – there, she is surrounded by K…

  24.10.2022

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 22-23, 2022

  …niverse of inimitable director Aleksei Balabanov, whose films had masterfully captured the wildness and turbulence of 90s Russia. With the power of interactive exhibits, audio storytelling (in Russian), and virtual experiences, the exhibition illustrates the director’s creative history and his many controversial yet timeless oeuvres suc…

  19.10.2022

• Get to Know ITMO’s International Office Staff

  …3 Idiots to me. It's about the friendship of three engineering college students. That's the movie I'd erase my memory of just so I could watch it again. What's a funny work story you've had with a student or staff? Oh, I have so many, starting from a two-meter-tall male student who made me carry his luggage when I was a Buddy, and ending with a student from Taiwa…

  18.10.2022

• Staff Spotlight: Ekaterina Rassolenko, International Admissions Office

  …g, majoring in foreign studies with an emphasis on Scandinavian countries. Apart from English, I also learned the Finnish language. I had several subjects about Scandinavian history and culture. Then, I went abroad to pursue a Master’s degree in Education Management and Leadership. I studied at the University of Southampton in the UK.  And currently, I am applying…

  06.10.2022

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 8-9, 2022

  …0 rubles for students) Images of Empire is a true window onto the past that lets visitors glimpse into the lives of Russian peoples in the 1860s. The exhibition tells the story of the country through rare archival photographs, mainly solo and group portraits, that capture the culture, everyday life, and traditional clothing of its numerous residents living in di…

  05.10.2022