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• Expat life in St. Peterburg

  … In general, life as an expat in a new country is not easy, but it is a very interesting experience, especially in a place that has so much to offer in terms of culture and history. Many of the typical superstitions about Russia turned out to be wrong: Russian people are not "cold", they don't drink much, and there are no bears to be seen. The last fact is a bit sad…

  02.10.2018

• History of TV in Leningrad and St. Petersburg

  …The history of television begins in 1907, when the professor of the Technological Institute, BL Rosing, invented the method of recording and reproducing images using a system of electronic scanning (line transfer) in a transmitting device and an electron-beam tube in a receiving apparatus, that is, for the first time "formulated" the basic principle of the device and…

  26.09.2018

• ITMO… It’s More Than a University.

  …, it’s also where the "fun" part of my C2 courses begin. We explore topics such as Cultural Studies, Cultural Heroes, Data Analytics & Survey Design, American Literature, History of the West, and more. Instruction is delivered in a sort of "survey' style, where the material I present in class focuses more on breadth than depth. But that’s the nature of a skills an…

  20.09.2018

• Curious Things You Might Not Know About St. Petersburg

• New adventure in Russia? Welcome on board!

  …and they could treat you rudely. On the other hand, if you know how to ask for what you need people will treat you with respect and simple things will go smoothly. Read some history and general facts about the city you will be calling home, look at the map and locate your university, see which are the closest bus stops and subway stations, that way you will have at l…

  30.01.2018

• Unexpected Pleasures

  …ected pleasures. I mean, when you expect less and you are given more, the more you appreciate it, right? The more you take it as a present from the Universe. Talking about the story I began above, the end of it should have taken place at a small Catalan town Vilanova i la Geltru on Costa Dorada, where I needed to have an appointment for a Spanish ID card (which is a …

  11.01.2018

• Hello, world!

  …elf anyways, but also annotate it to the consumers of the art. Imho. What else? I would name some general things like bikes, travelling, architecture, cuisines and cultures, history, but I don't wanna focus on that. Some things should stay private, some would be just boring, so I want to refer to them only by explaining my own point of view further. Let's say a co…

  26.10.2017

• Weekend getaway: Petrozavodsk

  …The name of the city already gives you an idea about the history of the city, as Petrozavodsk literally means Peters factory. In the beginning of the 18th century Peter the Great decided that Russia needed an armory factory close to the Swedish border and this kick-started the development of the region. Today Petrozavodsk is a city of 275 000 inhabitants. Petrozavod…

  14.07.2017

• Comparing student unions — the case of ITMO and University of Helsinki

  …In Finland the history of student unions in their modern form is a little bit longer than in Russia. I believe this is why there are some differences between the student organization fields in the two countries. However, there are a lot of similarities as well. In my home university the main student union is a huge organization taking care of many such things that i…

  06.07.2017

• The Magic of Ballet

  …e portraits of the ballet dancers. The ballet we saw this time was Swan Lake, probably the most well-known Russian ballet with the beloved music from Tchaikovsky. It is a story of a prince, who falls in love with a girl that is cursed to be a swan. My favorite part of this ballet was the iconic scene where all the swan-ballerinas dance together in their white tu…

  23.06.2017