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On the main staircase, between classes, you can once again enjoy classical music and contemporary compositions performed by the symphony orchestra, the Polytechnic Chamber Choir, and the Polyhymnia Choir.

The "Musical Break" project launched last academic year and has captured the hearts of all Polytechnic students. Over the years, it has become an important part of the university's cultural life. Musical breaks fill the university with a special energy, foster a creative atmosphere, showcase student talent, and inspire Polytechnic students.

"We strive to make the cultural component an integral part of the university's educational environment, and participation in creative projects a natural part of student life," notes Boris Kondin, Head of the Directorate of Cultural Programs and Youth Creativity. "We hope that one day the entire Polytechnic University will sound like a single choir—both literally and figuratively—united by shared values, a desire for self-expression, and love."

We encourage everyone to experience the beautiful and attend musical breaks this school year.

I'd never studied anywhere with anything like this before, so at first it felt unexpected and surprising. It felt like I'd been snatched away from the daily grind that sometimes overwhelms us," says Andrey Yemelyanov, a first-year student at IMMIT.

Musical break schedule for the 2025/26 academic year (starting at 1:30 PM):

25.09.25 — Polytechnic Chamber Choir 13.10.25 — Pop and Symphony Orchestra "Ingenium" 24.10.25 — Youth Choir "Polyhymnia" 13.11.25 — Youth Choir "Polyhymnia" 28.11.25 — Pop and Symphony Orchestra "Ingenium" 09.12.25 — Polytechnic Chamber Choir 16.02.26 — Pop and Symphony Orchestra "Ingenium" 24.02.26 — Youth Choir "Polyhymnia" 05.03.26 — Pop and Symphony Orchestra "Ingenium" 17.03.26 — Polytechnic Chamber Choir 09.04.26 — Polytechnic Chamber Choir 22.04.26 — Youth Choir Polyhymnia

Also, if you're a Polytechnic University student with a passion for art and want to develop your creative talents, the university has 14 arts groups. You're sure to find something for yourself.

In addition, SPbPU students have the unique opportunity to attend all concerts held in the White Hall absolutely free of charge.

"I felt like I'd entered another reality. It looked and sounded absolutely beautiful! It was great that they performed new songs as well. I really enjoyed the variety of the repertoire," Polina Klevtsova, a second-year student at the Institute of Music, commented on the musical change.

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On September 13, the creativity festival "Otkrytie" was held in the student campus on Lesnaya. The event, organized by the administration of the Student Club of the Directorate of Cultural Programs and Youth Creativity, became a pass to the future for the most active first-year students.

The festival featured a full range of cultural and leisure activities: two theaters, two choirs, two vocal studios, a pop-symphony orchestra, a dance studio, KVN and other groups. The studios and associations of the Student Club surprised everyone with so many things! Guests learned to draw music, got acquainted with rare photographic equipment, participated in a show, launched a drum from the musical show "Don't Sleep!" and received predictions for the academic year. The Polytechnic Student Theater held express trainings, and the People's University Theater "Glagol" invited behind the scenes. At all stations, students earned game currency, which could be exchanged for memorable gifts in the Student Club souvenir shop or saved for the big auction.

At the Otkrytie festival, we, together with the Ingenium orchestra, played games with guests and looked for talented polytechnic students — future members of our orchestra. The student club is a place to meet new friends and realize your talents, — shared 2nd-year student of the Institute of Biological Sciences and Biology Savva Ivanov.

The creative space of the festival was an interactive map of the annual events of the Student Club: for a couple of minutes, the Polytechnicians found themselves in the atmosphere of "ArtCamp" – a traditional trip for first-year students, the intellectual and entertaining game "FastBrain", Maslenitsa and the legendary project "Dances. Polytechnic". The Ecological Community "Regrin" and the United Student Council of Dormitories also joined the festival.

The atmosphere of the festival made a huge impression! A big gala concert prepared by the studios, many interactive activities and absolutely different decorations. It was especially nice to see how many kids are interested in creativity and immediately sign up for the groups they liked! – shared first-year student of the IPMET Maria Akimenko.

The center of attraction was the stage, where for two hours the participants of the Youth Choir "Polyhymnia", vocal studio "Polivoks", Chamber Choir, dance studio PolyDance, as well as finalists and participants of the project "Star of Polytech", artists of the musical show "Don't Sleep!" and beatbox master Ekaterina Pautova performed. The finale of the evening was the viewing of a cartoon in the open air.

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The musical festival “Strauss Gala” marked the beginning of the new concert season in the White Hall – the 20th in its modern history.

You enter the assembly hall and are involuntarily surprised by its size… The hall is all white with a stucco ceiling, with huge windows in two rows, wide ceilings pouring in waves of light. Along three walls stretch choirs supported by light balustrades, – wrote the newspaper "Birzhevye Vedomosti" on October 2, 1902.

The history of the hall and the history of the university are common. The ceremonial opening of the Polytechnic Institute on October 1, 1902 took place in the White Hall. Many historical events took place there – from speeches of the country's political leaders to creative evenings of famous poets and actors. Permanent concert activity in the White Hall began 100 years later. On September 1, 2005, the hall opened after restoration with a concert by Vladimir Spivakov and the Moscow Virtuosi Orchestra.

"This performance became a kind of standard for all subsequent concerts in the White Hall," says Boris Kondin, head of the Directorate of Cultural Programs and Youth Creativity at SPbPU, who took charge of this work 20 years ago. "Since then, the White Hall has maintained an atmosphere of grandeur and is famous for unforgettable concerts of Russian and world stars, masters of culture and art."

On the opening day of the 20th season, guests of the White Hall were greeted by an exhibition of historical photographs, which showed how the hall had changed over the course of a century of its history.

The State St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra "Classica" presented the audience with a double gift – a concert in honor of the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the new history of the hall and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Strauss Jr. The Viennese "waltz king" Johann Strauss spent many years in his beloved St. Petersburg of the second half of the 19th century, leading the orchestra at the Pavlovsk Music Station and delighting the public, including the imperial family, with brilliant concerts.

And now, in our days, immortal waltzes, polkas and marches have filled the White Hall with the grace and atmosphere of a ball.

"Strauss's music is best suited to create a festive mood and open the anniversary concert season," said the orchestra's conductor, Maestro Alexander Kantorov. "I congratulate the team and the audience of the White Hall, and wish to continue to delight connoisseurs of great classics with such celebrations of music and inspiration!"

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On September 8, the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Siege of Leningrad, a series of screenings of the literary and musical composition “Russia, Don’t Be Afraid, We Are With You” began at the Polytechnic for first-year students.

For the fourth year, within the framework of the “Creative Semesters” discipline, a conversation has been conducted with students about the events in freezing blockaded Leningrad and the Donbass burning from bombings using music and words.

"Today is the day of the beginning of the Leningrad blockade, but also the day of the liberation of Donbass from the Nazi invaders. So, in one day, two such events have come together, as in our work, born in 2016, when a huge milestone in our history began and continues to this day," said the author of the project, actress of the G. A. Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater Alexandra Kulikova. "I have great hope that our word will be heard. And it should not be otherwise. Because we are honest, and the Polytechnic is permeated with attention to the young – to those who are to seek, build, love, remember and pass on."

On September 8, two screenings took place in a row. The first to hear poems by Anna Akhmatova and Olga Berggolts, poems and documentary texts by Donbass residents, accompanied by an orchestra, were first-year students of the Institute of Energy and the Institute of Computer Science and Cybersecurity.

Full halls, hundreds of students, and like one! Attentive and listening… They managed to put their phones aside for a while and live this story with us. I feel great gratitude and tenderness for each of them and I believe that each of them has purity, compassion, love for people and their country, – noted Alexandra Kulikova.

The composition, which combined poetry, documentary evidence and music, became an important emotional and educational experience for the students.

I couldn't hold back my tears… Expressive reading, piercing music and the topic itself – it was unexpected to find myself at such a lecture. This is a very important work of the university – everyone should know about the terrible events that happened and are still happening, – shared 1st year student of the Institute of Historical and Cultural Studies Valentina Fomina.

The management of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University is grateful to the actress of the G. A. Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater Alexandra Kulikova and the conductor of the Donetsk Philharmonic Valeria Putra, who united singers and musicians to implement this important statement. Preserving the memory of the exploits of the past and present helps polytechnicians become not only the engineering elite of the country, but also people devoted to their Fatherland.

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On September 6, the People's University Theatre "Glagol" of SPbPU opens its 55th season with the play "Second Lieutenant Kizhe".

The theatre was founded in 1971 at the Physics and Metallurgy Department of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute thanks to Associate Professor of the Department of Physical Chemistry Alexander Maksimovich Borschevsky, who became its first director and manager, and two students, Mikhail Budnevich and Mikhail Kogan. The theatre's first performance was "The Adventures of Robinson at LPI".

The completed 54th season was also notable for its anniversaries. The performances celebrated their 30th anniversary "Second Lieutenant Kizhe" (premiered on December 10, 1994) and "The Three Musketeers, or Sorry, but I Don't Speak French" (premiered on April 8, 1995). Those Glagolits who started "The Musketeers" and still participate in the performance received thanks from the Directorate of Cultural Programs and Youth Creativity of SPbPU. This is the artistic director of the People's University Theater "Glagol", Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation Konstantin Gershov; actor and director of "Glagol" Vitaly Belodubrovsky (graduate of the hydrotechnical faculty of St. Petersburg State Technical University in 1994); actors Konstantin Zubritsky (graduate of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute named after M. I. Kalinin in 1983); Semyon Golod (graduate of the Faculty of Technical Cybernetics of St. Petersburg State Technical University in 1992); Vladimir Sozonov (graduate of the Electromechanical Faculty of St. Petersburg State Technical University in 1997), sound engineer Alexander Samunin (graduate of the Faculty of Technology and Materials Research of St. Petersburg State Technical University in 2001).

The play about Daniil Kharms “It’s funny in 2000…” turned 20 years old (the premiere took place on March 27, 2004).

The actors also celebrated their creative anniversaries. In honor of the 45th anniversary of service to the theater of actress Olga Zaitseva (graduate of the Physics and Metallurgy Faculty in 1982), and the 40th anniversary of service to "Glagol" of actor Andrei Munin (graduate of the Physics and Metallurgy Faculty in 1993), a collective benefit performance was given on stage.

Polytechnic graduates Dmitry Motorin, Vasily Solomin, Vladimir Sozonov, Tatyana Mironova, Alexander Samunin, costume designer Yulia Spelman, and actors Vsevolod Sukhov and Anna Snegireva celebrated their 30th anniversary of service to the theatre.

Maria Rozhdestvenskaya (graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Management-2006) has been playing on the stage of “Glagol” for 20 years, actor and teacher of the studio Mikhail Alemaskin (graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Management-2011) for 15 years, actress Galina Gerling

Irina Gumarova (graduate of the Humanitarian Institute-2016), Anastasia Omelchuk (graduate of the Civil Engineering Institute-2018), Ksenia Bobko (graduate of the IIOP-2017) have been delighting viewers for ten years.

In total, 49 performances were given in the 54th season, 39 of which were plays. 10 actors, interns and studio members performed in the project. "Musical Break". For the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the theater staged musical and poetic composition "Shards of Silence", in which five generations of polytechnicians met on one stage. Evgeniya Pavlova, Igor Samoilov and Pavel Sobolev took part in the flash mob

17 Polytechnic students joined the theatre troupe during the season. And right now the studio is recruiting.

"Every year, Glagol recruits polytechnic students, mostly first-year students, to the theater studio," said Konstantin Gershov, artistic director of Glagol. "During the season, they attend classes in acting training, stage movement, vocals, and stage speech. In November, the students present a concert-presentation, Look Who's Come, and in May, an application for a new play. The entire set of 13 studio students from last season was accepted into the theater troupe. In October, they are scheduled to premiere the play, Towards the Sun, based on the poems and short stories of Alexander Volodin."

Konstantin Gershov also reported that during the anniversary season the Glagol Theatre plans to stage two new plays and take part in several theatre festivals.

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