Mikhail Simchuk: "The best textbook is life."

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Today's featured subject is Mikhail Simchuk, Director of the Department of Transport and Mechanization at Polytechnic University. He recently received the Polytechnic University's honorary award "For Merit." For over 10 years, Mikhail Viktorovich has worked at Polytechnic University, heading the Department of Transport. Under his leadership, several departments and the Polytechnic University's auto center operate smoothly and efficiently.

Mikhail Simchuk was born in Volgograd, lived for several years on Sakhalin, and after graduating from military academy, served in Leningrad. In 1997, he was awarded the Order of Courage for his service in Chechnya. Mikhail's son also became a defender of the Motherland. In 2024, Viktor Simchuk, a participant in the special military operation, was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland," 2nd Class.

Read about how his childhood dream of the sky led him to the North Caucasus, why honesty is a practical skill, and how combat experience helps him lead a civilian team.interview on the website of the newspaper "Polytechnic".

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Polina Tyapkina: "Science is a synthesis of creativity and intellect"

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The subject of the new "Persona" column is Polina Tyapkina, a graduate student at the Civil Engineering Institute. Her journey from first-year student to junior researcher at the Gipronickel Institute's geotechnical laboratory exemplifies how to combine passion and professional ambition.

If you are interested in time management experience and a career as a young scientist, Read the interview with Polina on the website of the newspaper "Polytechnic".

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Fyodor Nikitin: "Find what you can do and do it."

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October 5th marks Teacher's Day in Russia. We congratulate all the faculty at the Polytechnic University on this professional holiday, and in our traditional Friday "Person" column, we're giving the floor to one of you—Fyodor Nikitin, a physics teacher at the SPbPU Natural Sciences Lyceum.

Why a Polytechnic University graduate chose lyceum over university teaching, how he teaches children about life using the laws of physics as an example, and where, in his opinion, the Russian intelligentsia went wrong—all this and much more. Read the interview on the website of the newspaper "Polytechnic".

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Alexander Kobyshev: an artist in his field

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This week, Polytechnic University said farewell to Alexander Nikolaevich Kobyshev. An honorary employee of SPbPU and a graduate of the M. I. Kalinin Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, he dedicated almost his entire working life to his alma mater.

An unpublished interview with Alexander Nikolaevich remains in the archives of the Politechnik newspaper. Today, in memory of A.N. Kobyshev,It will be released for the first time in a special edition of the Persona project. Please note that this conversation took place in 2018, and much has changed since then.

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Svetlana Kalmykova: "One minute of an online course is tens of hours of painstaking work."

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In 2025, the Polytechnic University's Open Education Center celebrates its 10th anniversary. The journey from the first experiments with posting educational materials on a website to the creation of a full-fledged digital educational environment, "Open Polytechnic," and the launch of over 150 online courses on the national platform was both challenging and rewarding. Svetlana Kalmykova, head of the Open Education Center, spoke with the newspaper "Polytechnic" about the origins and success of distance learning at the Polytechnic University, and the projects that have become the Center's key focus.

This interview is both a look into the past and a conversation about the future, but most importantly, it is the story of Svetlana Vladimirovna herself.– a person for whom education has become a matter of life.

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Andrey Shirokih: “Now I feel that I am exactly in my place – where I should be”

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The hero of the new issue of the "Person" section is Andrey Shirokih, an engineer at the Higher School of Power Engineering of the Institute of Power Engineering of SPbPU. Before his graduation, he managed to participate in career guidance for schoolchildren, scientific developments at the I. I. Kirillov Turbine Engineering Laboratory, created his own technology startup and supervised a direction at SKB "System Engineering" (Power Machines – Polytech).

And Andrey is also a straightforward, sincere and self-critical person with unusual hobbies. You can get to know our hero better by reading his a candid interview with the newspaper "Polytechnic".

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Ekaterina Tereshko: "It was a combo of economics, management and construction"

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Polytechnic University graduate and now research fellow and teacher Ekaterina Tereshko is a shining example of how one can simultaneously study at two institutes and be among the best, win grants and still work, defend a PhD thesis, and manage to do it all.

Is there a secret here? Maybe it is that our heroine likes it when there is a load for the mind and with each stage the level of difficulty increases? Read about this and much more inEkaterina's interview with the newspaper "Polytechnic".

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Student Dong Yiqun from China: “Polytech is an ideal choice”

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Dong Yiqun came to St. Petersburg from China, entered the Polytechnic University, this year completed her bachelor's degree in the program "World Economy and International Economic Relations" and decided to continue her studies in the master's program.

Sometimes I even dream in Russian! Now, after several years of such efforts, I look back at the time when I first came to Russia and knew nothing, and I understand what a huge path I have come, – said Yiqun in an interview with the university newspaper "Polytechnic".

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Victor Yakovlev: "Robots and "Omnivores" are in first place for me"

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The new hero of the "Person" section is Viktor Yakovlev, a graduate of the Higher School of Automation and Robotics of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Transport. He currently works as an administrator of the Center for Youth Trajectories at SPbPU. He is also the captain of the "Omnivorous" team, the bronze medalist of the international championship "Battle of Robots".

Victor spoke about how his childhood passion for 3D modeling grew into creating his own robots and participating in international competitions, and, what’s more, led him to the Polytechnic University, about books and hobbies.interview with the newspaper "Polytechnic".

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