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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 8-9, 2023

  This week’s rundown of what’s on in St. Pete includes landscape contemplation, spring fever, and some brain-boosting activities. Buckle up!

  05.04.2023

• ITMO’s Science Communicators Hosted a Discussion at the Total Dictation Conference

  At the end of January, Total Dictation hosted the 8th international conference in Moscow, titled “Dynamic processes in contemporary Russian language”. As part of the event, the organizers introduced the author of the text for the 2020 dictation, chose its capital and identified its main theme. Apart from that, volunteers, organizers and experts participated in the discussion on the topic “How popularization in humanities differs from popularization in natural sciences?”, which was moderated by Ilya Stakheev, deputy director of ITMO University’s Center for Science Communication.

  11.02.2020

• Total Dictation and ITMO’s Center of Science Communication Launch a Contest of PopSci Works

  The team of the Total Dictation initiative is launching a new contest for authors of popular-science works on Russian language and literature. Journalists and bloggers who explore topics close to those of Total Dictation, are invited to participate, as well as specialists in the field of science and science communication who are interested in the popularization of the Russian language. ITMO.NEWS spoke to Ilya Stakheev, deputy director of the Science Communication Center at ITMO University and one of the founders of Total Dictation, to find out about the contest’s rules and why participating in it may be interesting not only to journalists and philologists.

  12.11.2019

• Total Dictation-2018 at ITMO University

  This Saturday, April 14, ITMO University hosted the 15th annual Total Dictation, a voluntary test in the Russian language. This year participants from more than 1000 cities around the world took part in the initiative. Some participated in the Dictation in the mountains of Northern Caucasus, or even in space. What makes Total Dictation truly special is that many renowned actors, musicians, writers and even robots take part in it as “readers”. At ITMO University, this year’s Total Dictation was hosted by Marina Kacuba, a Russian poet, and Ernesto Zatknites, a Russian rapper.

  16.04.2018

• Total Dictation at ITMO University

  On April 8th everyone who cares for Russian language participated in the 14th annual Total Dictation; this year, it united participants from six continents, 71 countries and 866 cities in 19 time belts.

  10.04.2017