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Source: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University –
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As part of the implementation of the "Roadmap" of joint activities between SPbPU and KRSU for the development of engineering education at the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University named after B.N. Yeltsin, a scientific and educational internship was held for faculty and students from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering and the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Construction at the institutes and laboratories of the Polytechnic University.
Eight faculty members, a graduate student, and eleven students spent a week actively collaborating at four SPbPU institutes: Civil Engineering, Physics and Mechanics, Computer Science and Cybersecurity, and Mechanical Engineering, Materials, and Transport. Each had their own, yet highly intensive, internship program. For the faculty, this included familiarizing themselves with the laboratories, studying teaching materials, and coordinating plans for joint work and projects. For the students, this included working in the laboratories, attending lectures and practical classes in their respective fields, and learning about the work of SPbPU's industrial partners.
Teachers and students from the "Construction", "Technosphere Safety", "Architecture" and "Architectural Environment Design" departments of the Federal Agency for Architecture and Construction of KRSU completed internships at the Civil Engineering Institute.
The internship began with an official meeting with the institute's leadership, which was attended by KRSU faculty members: Department of Ecology and Emergency Management (Head Erik Mambetov and Associate Professor Ermek Sharsheev); Department of Construction (Head Elmira Sardarbekova and Senior Lecturer Ivan Chernykh-Rashevsky); and Department of Architectural Environmental Design (Head Beisen Kariev).
The Civil Engineering Institute was represented by Marina Petrochenko, Director; Maxim Terekh, Deputy Director for Academic and Methodological Work; Asiyat Eliseeva, Deputy Director for Academic Process Organization and Student Affairs; Yuri Lazarev, Director of the Higher School of Public Administration and Design; Galina Kozinets, Director of the Higher School of Public Administration and Design; Andrey Andreev, Director of the Higher School of Technical and Architecture; Margarita Perkova, Director of the Higher School of Design and Architecture; and Mikhail Romanov, Responsible for International Affairs at the Institute of Civil Engineering. The guests were introduced to the infrastructure and key areas of educational and research activities at the Institute of Civil Engineering, exchanged information on research areas and educational opportunities for joint activities, and discussed organizational matters.
KRSU faculty held a series of meetings and joint working sessions with colleagues from relevant ISI Higher Schools. They discussed joint research, the implementation of educational programs within the framework of academic mobility, inter-university interdisciplinary final qualifying theses, and also worked on joint publication and project activities.
A meeting was organized for KRSU students majoring in Technosphere Safety with Mikhail Ryabukhin, head of the All-Russian Student Rescue Corps, and Oleg Savoshinsky, head of the SPbPU Civil Safety Department. The students also visited the St. Petersburg State University of the State Fire Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia named after Hero of the Russian Federation, General of the Army E. N. Zinichev.
A master class on modeling buildings and structures using construction information modeling technologies, a master class on laser scanning, and a master class on visualizing design concepts using neural networks were organized for students majoring in Construction and Architectural Environment Design. KRSU students began implementing the first project of the student design bureau, sponsored by the IRBIS engineering corporation.
Beishembek Ashirbaev, Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, completed an internship at the Institute of Physics and Mechanics at SPbPU. Over the course of a week, colleagues from KRSU visited the institute's laboratories and participated in scientific seminars at the Higher School of Applied Mathematics and Computational Physics.
A meeting was held with Maxim Frolov, Director of the Higher School of Applied Mathematics and Computational Physics, and Konstantin Kozlov, Head of the Applied Mathematics and Computer Science educational program. The partners discussed the program's implementation and the potential for KRSU undergraduate students to complete a semester-long internship within the program.
KRSU representatives visited the Mathematical Biology and Bioinformatics Research Laboratory. They were shown equipment used to extract plant and fungal DNA. They discussed technologies for obtaining experimental data and its mathematical processing using machine learning. They also visited laboratories at the Higher School of Applied Mathematics and Computational Physics, where they learned about the operating principles of wind tunnels and shock tunnels and were shown several experiments.
A seminar on current research topics was held with the participation of Maxim Frolov. Faculty from the Institute of Physics and Mechanics presented their priority research areas, tasks, and projects to their colleagues from Kyrgyzstan. Another seminar was led by Sergei Lupulyak, Head of the Virtual Simulation Research Laboratory at the Institute of Physics and Mechanics. The seminar discussed the development of software for modeling various physical processes in the petrochemical, gas, and aerospace industries.
"Transport Process Technologies" and "Software Engineering" are two other areas where KRSU students and faculty have completed internships.
The internship for third-year undergraduate students of the Faculty of Engineering and Materials Science of KRSU, Ariadna Aksenova and Yulia Klets, lasted two weeks and took place at the Higher School of Transport with the participation of specialists from the Laboratory of New Materials and Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (for the Aircraft, Shipbuilding, and Innovative Transport Industries) of the Institute of Metallurgy and Transport.
Students gained unique experience and new professional skills, actively engaged in building traffic models, which allowed them to gain a deeper understanding of traffic flow dynamics and the impact of various factors on their operation. The knowledge gained will form the basis for further study of complex transportation systems and the development of effective solutions for traffic optimization.
Furthermore, the students mastered geographic information systems, enabling them to visualize and analyze spatial data related to transport infrastructure. Introduction to transport macromodels was an important part of their training, as they enable higher-level traffic flow forecasting and informed decision-making in urban planning and transport management. The skills and knowledge they acquire will contribute to their professional development and prepare them for a successful career in transportation engineering.
The issue of adapting and aligning the curricula of SPbPU and KRSU in the areas of "Transport Process Technology" and "Transport Logistics" was also addressed. Dmitry Glazunov, Professor of the Department of Automobile Transport at KRSU's Faculty of Economics, held several meetings with Alexey Grachev, Director of the Higher School of Transport, and Dmitry Plotnikov, Associate Professor at the School. Glazunov learned about the infrastructure of the higher school, the course work plans for the educational areas, and discussed with colleagues options for aligning the curricula in the specialized areas to enable KRSU students to complete a semester of study at the Polytechnic University as part of the network educational program.
Tariel Jalalbekov and Eldin Nazhimidinov, two first-year undergraduate students from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering at KRSU, spent two weeks exploring the educational and scientific opportunities at the Polytechnic University. As part of the advanced IT education program "Development of System and Application Software for Modern Information Storage and Transmission Systems," implemented by the Higher School of Software Engineering at the Institute of Information Systems and Computer Science at SPbPU, the KRSU students attended lectures and workshops on algorithmization and programming, and participated in seminars organized by the program's industrial partners.
The students also learned about the Polytechnic's history, campus, and infrastructure. Following their first year at KRSU (2025/26 academic year), the possibility of organizing a semester-long course for these two students at the Polytechnic University in the same advanced IT education program will be considered.
In parallel with the student educational internship, Natalia Lychenko, Head of the Department of Information and Computational Technologies at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering at KRSU, completed an internship at the Higher School of Software Engineering at the Institute of Software Engineering and Science. She studied the curricula and teaching materials for the Software Engineering program to more fully and seamlessly integrate the respective educational programs at SPbPU and KRSU. An agreement was reached to further develop a networked master's program and a joint undergraduate program in Software Engineering, with the potential launch of both programs in the 2026/27 academic year. The master's program will include lecturers from the Polytechnic University, while the undergraduate program will include one to two semesters of full-time study at SPbPU.
We highly value our partnership with the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University and are pleased with the successful completion of the internship. During this week, KRSU faculty not only exchanged professional experience but also began implementing research initiatives. It was especially valuable that the students immediately applied their acquired knowledge to a real-world project at IRBIS Engineering Corporation. I am confident that such educational projects make a significant contribution to strengthening international cooperation and training highly qualified specialists for the construction industry, noted Marina Petrochenko, Director of the Institute of Civil Engineering.
On the final day of the internship, a working meeting was held via videoconference between Yuri Fomin, Vice-Rector for Research at SPbPU, and Evgeny Shekunov, Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation at KRSU. Representatives of SPbPU and KRSU research groups involved in joint research projects also participated in the meeting. The colleagues discussed the current results of the SPbPU-KRSU Roadmap activities related to research, agreed on work plans for the remainder of the year, and outlined promising activities for 2026.
All faculty and students of the B.N. Yeltsin Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University received certificates of completion of a scientific or educational internship at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.
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