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In the main academic building of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, after the completion of renovation work, the legendary large physics auditorium has reopened its doors.
The repairs were paid for from income received from managing the Polytechnic's development endowment and cost five million rubles. This is the largest project Endowment fund of SPbPU throughout its entire existence.
The decision to restore the historic auditorium was made following the results of a competition of infrastructure projects announced by the Endowment Fund Board in December 2024. The initiative was timed to coincide with the 125th anniversary of the Polytechnic University. The commission for the distribution of income from the management of the fund's endowment capital received 12 projects. Having assessed each of them, the commission gave preference to the renovation of the large physical auditorium of the Main Academic Building.
The funds allocated by the foundation were used to restore the tables and floor, and install new special blinds. The renovated auditorium became a gift to teachers and students for the beginning of the new academic year.
The first meeting of the Physics Department after the renovation began with a formal part. Elena Vinogradova, Chair of the Foundation Board and Director of the Department of Economics and Finance of SPbPU, said a few welcoming words: We are very glad that over the 13 years of our Endowment Fund's existence, we were able to do such an important thing – finance the renovation of the auditorium, which is the face of the Polytechnic University. I hope that we will continue this tradition, and the Foundation's activities will be even more noticeable in supporting students, teachers and the material and technical base of the university.
This 400-seat amphitheater auditorium occupies a special place in the history of the university. Outstanding scientists once gave lectures here: V. V. Skobeltsyn, A. F. Ioffe, P. L. Kapitsa, N. N. Semenov, A. A. Fridman, Yu. B. Khariton, A. I. Alikhanov, B. P. Konstantinov and many others. In the early years of the institute, students from all faculties gathered here weekly to listen to lectures on physics.
Olga Novikova, Executive Director of the SPbPU Endowment Fund, gave a presentation on the history of the foundation and the mechanism of its operation. She said that over the past 13 years, formed seven target capitals, three of which are university-wide and four are for specific areas. The total volume of the SPbPU target capital fund in June of this year exceeded 126 million rubles.
Concluding the formal part, the director of the Institute of Physics and Mathematics Pavel Zakharov called the large physics auditorium “image-building” and once again thanked everyone who took part in the project.
"Carrying out repairs in a historical building is a huge task associated with lengthy approvals," he noted. "Many people have made efforts here, so on behalf of the institute I would like to express my deep gratitude, colleagues, for having managed to do this. This is such a good start to the new academic year."
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