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Source: Government of the Russian Federation – Government of the Russian Federation –
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A spire has been installed on the building housing the clock tower, which is being built on the Kantiana campus of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU) in Kaliningrad. Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin announced the installation.
"The active development of a world-class campus network, as instructed by the President of Russia, demonstrates the serious attention paid to modernizing the educational infrastructure. These new student campuses are designed to provide high-quality education and create comfortable conditions for study and research. Such a project is being implemented in Kaliningrad, among other places. Despite the current challenges, the construction of the Kantiana campus, covering over 109,000 square meters, is currently over 80% complete. Construction continues on the central building of the entire educational complex—the Graduate School of Philosophy and Social Sciences—where specialists have completed the installation of the spire. The clock tower, which stands 60 meters tall with the spire, is now visible to residents and visitors from afar. I am confident it will become a true architectural symbol of the campus and of Kaliningrad itself," said Marat Khusnullin.
In the spring of 2026, a unique clock, 3 meters in diameter and oriented toward all four cardinal directions, will be installed on the institute's tower. It will feature several types of illumination, each independently controllable, and the backlighting of the hands will be monochrome.
"Currently, work is underway on the exterior facade finishing, installation of translucent structures, and interior finishing at the Graduate School of Philosophy and Social Sciences. Roofing and utility systems are also being installed. In addition, construction continues on the campus for the Biomed building, the Institute of High Technologies, and the conference complex. All construction and installation work is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2026," noted Karen Oganesyan, CEO of the Unified Customer in Construction.
The Graduate School of Philosophy, History, and Social Sciences building, covering over 12,000 square meters, will accommodate over 1,000 students. The building will house lecture halls, language labs, computer labs, classrooms for group study, a library with reading rooms, laboratories, a media center, and much more.
"The Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University campus is a unique complex, not only in terms of its architectural design but also in its meaning. The three research and educational buildings located here reflect key areas and levels of human life. "Biomed" is about "the physical human being." It will feature areas related to medicine, biology, genetics, chemistry, and more. The Institute of High Technologies building reflects "the technological human being" and everything related to IT solutions, materials science, and the gadgets we use every day. And the third building, the Higher School of Philosophy, History, and Social Sciences, is for the "inner human being": our future philosophers, political scientists, sociologists, historians, as well as lawyers and economists, will study here. This way, we will be able to combine the training of students in seemingly very different specialties, but in the modern world, very relevant to each other, in a single city location for interdisciplinary work. It is impossible to implement projects in the field of modern norms and regulations in bioengineering or ethics in medicine if our young minds are scattered throughout the city. It is important to unite students who reason and understand the inner needs of a person with those who are engaged in technology. For the first time in "At the Kantiana campus, we will have the opportunity to create such teams not only online, but also in a real infrastructure environment," said Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Rector Maxim Demin.
Four more campuses are being built by specialists from the Unified Customer in Construction Group in Orel, Novosibirsk, Smolensk, and Moscow.
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