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• This Holiday Season in St. Petersburg: Part 2

  It’s the last day of the holidays. Are you ready to embrace the new year or do you wish to celebrate a little more? Whatever you choose, we’ve got suggestions for fun events to visit in the city – and activities to do at home.

  08.01.2025

• Slavic Myths, Robots, and the Meaning of Life: Video Games To Play This Holiday Season

  The winter break is a great opportunity to lean back, relax, and spend some time on your favorite hobby. Together with Ivan Kirilenko, a lecturer at ITMO’s Game Development School, we’ve prepared a roundup of indie games to play on long winter evenings, whether solo or with friends – including a couple of titles developed by ITMO students!

  04.01.2025

• 5 Easter Eggs to Find at Grand Maket Russia

  Grand Maket isn’t just an east-to-west model of Russia in miniature; it’s *the* immersive, playful exhibit packed full of details and hidden features to ignite your imagination – and eyesight. The world’s jolliest man? Green creatures big and small? A bear rider? Here are five miniatures to set your eyes on as you explore the largest mockup of Russia and the second-largest project of this kind in the world.

  03.01.2025

• Winter Holidays at ITMO’s Museum of Optics: Cool Events to Visit

  Don’t miss out on all the holiday tours and workshops happening at ITMO’s Museum of Optics this holiday season!

  03.01.2025

• How to Take Care of Your Mental Health Over Winter Holidays

  The long winter break gives us all a long-awaited opportunity to unwind after an eventful year. However, it can be hard to turn off “work mode” and let yourself fully relax. We reached out to Anna Nikolayeva, a psychologist with the online service Alter, to ask how to rest and whether cat memes can help in the matter.

  27.12.2024

• This 2025 Holiday Season in St. Petersburg

  Discover the best places to go and activities to experience for a true St. Pete New Year’s. Bustling themed markets, big-screen fairytales, and open-air ice rinks & slides – let the holiday merriment begin.

  25.12.2024

• This Week in St. Petersburg: December 12-18, 2024

  Looking for best ways to put a bow on the last weeks of 2024? We’ve got plenty to get you into the winter spirit – along with a vibrant cultural program, as per usual.

  11.12.2024

• Best Activities to Kickstart Your Brain After Holidays

  We’ve all been there: the holidays are over and your responsibilities are calling, but your mind is still chock-full with garlands, candy, and wrapping paper. Diving into work (or studies) head-first isn’t gonna cut it – you’ll need to pick up some steam first. So, here are some of our best ideas for how to get back into gear with these fun-yet-healthy distractions.

  08.01.2024

• These Winter Holidays in St. Petersburg Part 2: January 4-8, 2024

  With all the salads eaten and all the movies watched, it's time to leave your four walls for more than just a quick run to the store – or, if you’re a Brodsky fan, add a handful of exciting ideas on what to do at home during your well-deserved break.

  03.01.2024

• What To See at ITMO’s Museum of Optics This Winter Break

  The building located on Birzhevaya Liniya 14 has a rich history: in the early 1860s, it was owned by the Eliseevsky merchant dynasty, and since the 1920s, it has housed a state optical institution, where a graduate of ITMO University recorded the first-ever 3D art hologram. The structure now houses ITMO's Museum of Optics – the first university-based interactive museum that not only introduces visitors to cultural heritage items but also lets them practically feel the magic of science. Here are the top exhibits to see at the museum.

  03.01.2024