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The Polytechnic University held its latest Academic Council meeting. As always, it began with a ceremony, honoring staff and students for their achievements in various fields and contributions to the university's development.
Thus, commemorative medals and letters of gratitude from SPbPU for supporting the development of the university's Endowment Fund were awarded to Ruslan Talipov, a 2007 graduate of the Faculty of Technical Cybernetics and Director of Development and Digitalization at Hyperpartner, and Marina Petrochenko, a 2008 graduate of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and now Director of the Institute of Civil Engineering. Thanks to such patrons, the Polytechnic University Endowment Fund is steadily growing, and with it, so too are its opportunities to support students and faculty.
At the Polytechnic University, a tradition has developed of presenting diplomas for conferring academic degrees and certificates for conferring academic titles not in a routine, everyday manner, but in a festive atmosphere, with flowers andtaking photos for memoryThis year, the following individuals received their PhD degrees: Janis Olekhnovich, Senior Lecturer at the Higher School of Industrial, Civil, and Road Construction (supervised by Anton Radaev, Leading Specialist of the Educational Department of the Directorate of Basic Educational Programs); Daria Chernikova, Assistant at the Higher School of Biotechnology and Food Production (supervised by Yulia Bazarnova, Director of the Higher School of Biotechnology and Food Production); Omran Mohammad, Engineer in the Mechanism Research and Design Department (supervised by Alexander Zharkovsky, Professor at the Higher School of Power Engineering); and Tran Thanh Datu (supervised by Alexander Korotkov, Director of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications).
The Rector of the Polytechnic University, Andrei Rudskoy, presented the diploma of candidate of historical sciences to Pavel Pokidko (academic supervisor – Professor of the Higher School of Social Sciences, Svetlana Ulyanova).
Candidates of Economic Sciences diplomas were awarded to: Nikita Dunaenko (academic supervisor – Professor Tatyana Kudryavtseva of the Higher School of Engineering and Economics), Wang Xinyu, Hao Xiaoyun (academic supervisor of both – Professor Nikolai Didenko of the Higher School of Business Engineering), Zhao Zhuoran (academic supervisor – Professor Jamila Skripnyuk of the Higher School of Business Engineering).
Kristina Vasilyeva, a senior teacher of continuing education at the Higher School of International Educational Programs, defended her PhD dissertation at Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University. The diploma was also presented at the SPbPU Academic Council.
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Alexey Filimonov received a certificate conferring the academic title of professor.
Associate Professor certificates were awarded to: Candidates of Pedagogical Sciences Darina Barinova, Elena Krylova, and Evgeniya Tsimerman; Candidate of Economic Sciences Maxim Izmailov; Candidates of Technical Sciences Vasily Krundyshev, Ilya Keresten, Yuri Matveyev, Alexander Moskvichev, Yulia Smyatskaya, and Oleg Shagniev; Candidate of Architecture Elena Ladik; and Director of the Higher School of Engineering Physics, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics Roman Burkovsky.
In 2024, in honor of the 175th anniversary of Sergei Yulyevich Witte, the founder of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, the Academic Council decided to reinstate the Witte Scholarships from the income from managing the Polytechnic Institute's Endowment Fund. The first four scholarship recipients received their certificates in February 2025. At the current Academic Council meeting, the following four were congratulated: Natalia Sharpe, Anna Danilova, and Yaroslava Donskikh from the Institute of Mechanics and Technology, and Konstantin Fedorov from the Institute of Energy. Incidentally, this is the second time that Anna Danilova and Konstantin Fedorov have received the Witte Scholarship. The scholarship amount is 10,000 rubles, and it will be paid for five months, after which the committee will determine the new winners based on the results of the next session.
The PolySchool project of SPbPU took third place in the federal HR technology competition "In Frame" in the "Staff Retention" category. Colleagues congratulated Vice Rector for Human Resources, Maria Vrublevskaya, on this success.
For his significant achievements in addressing sustainable energy and social development issues, Viktor Barskov, Director of the Institute of Energy, was awarded the N.K. Baibakov Public Prize Laureate Diploma of the International Fuel and Energy Association. The prize was established in 2004.
Evgeny Pleshachkov, Head of the Department for Interaction with the Media, received a letter of gratitude from the Russian Ministry of Education and Science for organizing and hosting the All-Russian Student Olympiad "I am a Professional."
Congratulations were also received by the team of the Advanced Engineering School of SPbPU "Digital Engineering", which in August won the Russian Ultralight Aviation Championship in the MIX-500 aircraft in the Microplane-1 discipline. Aircraft commander Alexander Rodin, navigator Vladislav Balashov, and technician Yegor Seryakov are third-year students at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Materials, and Transport at SPbPU and have been honing their engineering skills for over a year at the Experimental Design Bureau of the SPbPU Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Materials, and Transport under the supervision of Mikhail Korchkov.
The CML-Team from the Advanced Engineering School of SPbPU "Digital Engineering" developed the combat robots "Laska" and "Morzh" and took first and second place at the FestTech festival at MIPT. The Academic Council congratulated the team mentors: Vsevolod Bolshakov, an engineer at the Advanced Engineering School of SPbPU "Digital Engineering," and Daria Kuatkhina, a laboratory assistant at the Advanced Engineering School of SPbPU.
The ceremony concluded with the honoring of the silver medalist of the “Professionals” championship in the “Design and manufacture of prostheses and orthoses” competency, 4th-year student of the Institute of Secondary Vocational Education Violetta MolodtsovaAlong with her, her mentors, ISPO lecturer Daria Ivanova and fourth-year ISPO student Daria Bolotnova, accepted congratulations at the Academic Council.
Oleg Rozhdestvensky, Head of the Polytechnic University's Office of Technological Leadership, addressed the meeting's agenda. He presented the results of the cross-university examination recently held at the Polytechnic The Russian Ministry of Education and Science and the Social Center then discussed the stages and results of the University Development Program for 2025. The program will be presented at a meeting of the Council for Support of Universities' Development Programs participating in the Priority 2030 program on November 19 in Moscow.
SPbPU Academic Secretary Dmitry Karpov reported on the monitoring of the execution of instructions, noting the high level of discipline among Polytechnic University employees.
The Academic Council also considered a number of current issues, including approving the candidates for the title of "Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences." These candidates include Dmitry Efanov, Professor of the Higher School of Transport at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Materials, and Transport, and Professor of the Higher School of Cyber-Physical Systems Management at the Institute of Computer Science and Cybersecurity at SPbPU; Alexander Timin, Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Nano- and Microencapsulation of Biologically Active Substances (LNiMBAV) at the Institute of Biomedical Systems and Biotechnology at SPbPU; and Maxim Kalinin, Professor of the Higher School of Cybersecurity and Chief Research Fellow of the Higher School of Cybersecurity at the Institute of Computer Science and Cybersecurity.
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