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• Kronstadt — the "Hub of the Universe" and the Might-Have-Been Capital of Russia

  …ry, much as the history of St. Petersburg, is closely intertwined with Russian Navy and Russia’s naval victories. Until 1959, Kronstadt was a separate town, so it still retains its own coat of arms, which local residents often hang in their apartments. How to get there Getting to Kronstadt is easy: by bus #101 from the Staraya Derevnya metro station, or by m…

  23.08.2016

• Bringing the Aquabus Back: St. Petersburg Water Taxi Can Be in Demand Aain

  …Why aquabuses are no longer? Saint Petersburg’s aquabus lines stopped functioning in 2015, due to their low popularity among the citizens. Instead of easing the workload of surface transport and the subway, they were more of a tourist attraction. What’s more, the city had to subsidize 480 rubles per person each trip, with the fare being 200-380 rubles. As a result…

  23.08.2016

• Bringing Rock Stars Back to Life: Demystified

  …t as a hologram on their website without even explaining what technology was used to create the image. Alexander Toropov from the Faculty of Photonics and Optoinformatics explains that the illusion was based on a combination of images from live recordings projected onto transparent foil or Mylar. The foil would have been mounted at an angle of 45 degrees to the stage…

  22.08.2016

• 5 Things We Loved This Week

  …org Surface engineers prefer whisky over coffee As a whisky drop dries, a combination of molecules in the liquid ensures a spatially uniform deposition—a finding that could inspire coating technologies. nytimes.com Happy traveler: What does it mean? Here are some tips by an experienced life coach to cultivate joy during your next trip—and long after returning h…

  21.08.2016

• Evgeny Pidko: Chemistry is a Catalyst for Success

  … chemicals towards some desirable products. The basics of this principle resemble the life of highlanders. Imagine that chemical substances live in valleys surrounded by mountains.  To change from one state to another, i.e. to get from one valley to the next one, substances have to pass over the mountains.  In classical chemistry wit…

  18.08.2016

• Summer School in Tallinn: Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction

  … Alexei Lavrov and his colleagues worked on making earphones "trendy": some of the elderly think that glasses and earphones are something associated with old crones and are against using them despite the necessity. Lidia Korpan's team took on introducing speech and gesture recognition technologies into computer interfaces, and Elena Veselova's team - the additional r…

  18.08.2016

• Russian Coders: To Leave or not to Leave

  … I’ve been working since. I have never regretted about my decision because research activities give a free hand.” Comparing Jobs Maria Baburina and Sergei Kesarev, JetBrains’s programmers, note that they agree with the overall statistics. Sharing her experience, Maria noted that currently there are many successful IT companies in Russia. They provide young spec…

  18.08.2016

• The Ins and Outs of the Postgraduate Admissions Process at ITMO

• Light-Emitting Glass Will Enhance Solar Panel Efficiency

  …Ultraviolet light and dust reduce the performance of silicon solar cells. To protect cells against these negative factors, special glass screens is used. If the panel is covered not with ordinary glass but luminescent glass (one that emits light upon absorbing ultraviolet radiation), it will not only protect cells from mechanical impurities, but also significantly im…

  17.08.2016

• «Yagodnoe» International Camp: Results and Achievements

  …arned about separating waste. Just before that we found a huge unauthorized disposal field on the territory of the local wildlife reserve. We had to write to the Environmental Inspection Committee to make them utilize it», — comments Alyona. Yet, the large dump played a positive role in the camp's work. The coordinators proposed finding unusual artifacts in the wa…

  17.08.2016