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136 years ago, the outstanding writer and poet Boris Pasternak was born. His parents were members of Russia's cultural elite: his mother was a talented pianist, his father a prominent artist. Together with them, at the age of four, the boy visited Leo Tolstoy. This atmosphere of "high and exceptional" quickly sparked a genuine interest in art.

Finding your calling and first successes in literature

As a young man, Boris actively sought his calling: he drew, dreamed of becoming a composer, and studied at the conservatory. He was fascinated by foreign philosophy and even went to Germany to study. But it was literature that truly found his calling. His first attempts at writing began while still at university, but his real debut came in 1913. Lirika Publishing House published his collection, "Twin in the Clouds." It revealed not only his admiration for Alexander Blok and Andrei Bely, but also his own voice.

During World War I, Pasternak's main passion remained writing. He refined his style, worked on a new collection, made connections with young poets, and by the summer of 1917, he had completed the cycle "My Sister's Life." The work received positive reviews from professionals, and Pasternak himself became a role model for a new generation of creatives. Among his friends were such great authors as Vladimir Mayakovsky, Sergei Yesenin, Marina Tsvetaeva, Andrei Bely, and Mikhail Bulgakov.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the poet worked on poems ("Lieutenant Schmidt," "The Year Nine Hundred and Fifth") and translated European classics. During the Great Terror, he petitioned Stalin for the release of arrested artists, and during the Great Patriotic War, he secured permission to travel to the front as part of a writers' brigade.

The pinnacle of creativity and a ban on publications

His major work was the novel "Doctor Zhivago," which he worked on for 10 years, until 1955. In the Soviet Union, the novel was deemed anti-Soviet and offensive to the principles of socialism and was banned from publication. Therefore, the book was published abroad, where it enjoyed widespread distribution.

On October 23, 1958, the Nobel Committee in Stockholm announced the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the author "for significant achievements in modern lyric poetry, as well as for continuing the traditions of the great Russian epic novel." But the authorities set their own conditions for the writer: either the prize or life in his native country. He then wrote a telegram to Stockholm: "In view of the significance that the award bestowed upon me has acquired in the society to which I belong, I must decline it. Please do not take my voluntary refusal as an insult." However, the laureate was ultimately not replaced.

Rehabilitation and universal recognition

The Union of Soviet Writers completed its rehabilitation and posthumously reinstated Boris Pasternak on February 19, 1987. In 1988, the legendary novel was finally published in his homeland, in the magazine Novy Mir, and in 1989, the writer's son, Yevgeny, was awarded a Nobel Prize diploma and medal.

Boris Pasternak became one of the country's most celebrated writers, leaving behind a rich legacy. He translated world classics—Shakespeare, Goethe, Rilke, Verlaine, and others—and wrote unique collections of poetry and a novel that made the legendary writer famous throughout the country and beyond. His work is a model of literary endurance and outstanding talent.

Interesting facts

From 1936 until his death, Pasternak lived in Peredelkino, Russia's most famous literary village. Other famous writers and poets also lived there, including Korney Chukovsky, Andrei Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Bella Akhmadulina, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Rimma Kazakova, and Bulat Okudzhava. Today, many of the houses are museums, open to the public, including those with the Pushkin Card.

Boris Pasternak House Museum, Korney Chukovsky House Museum, Bulat Okudzhava Museum, Yevgeny Yevtushenko Museum and Gallery, Peredelkino Writers' House of Creativity

In 2004, American director Quentin Tarantino flew to Moscow for a film festival. However, his first stop was Peredelkino, to visit the grave of poet Boris Pasternak. When asked by journalists, "Why him?" he replied that he had known Pasternak's poems since childhood and considered him a literary idol: "He's a personality, you see, he's a personality."

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Andrey Rudskoy, Rector of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, and Alexander Aslanyan, CEO of the Meridian Research and Production Company, signed a strategic partnership agreement. During the agreement's preparation, the partners held a meeting between Meridian specialists, led by Deputy CEO Alexander Kopanev, and employees of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications, the Institute of Computer Science and Cybersecurity, the Civil Engineering Institute, and the Institute of Power Engineering. They expressed mutual interest in collaborating on personnel training and solving scientific and technical problems in the fields of marine radio communications, control systems, degaussing equipment, and fire safety.

Meridian is a multi-industry enterprise that carries out work in various areas:

Information and control systems; fire automatic systems; control panels for navigation equipment; control systems for radio communication and radio intelligence; systems for compensation of magnetic and electric fields; simulators; telemetry systems; power supply systems for ship complexes.

Over the years, the systems and devices developed by the company have been installed on almost all ships and vessels built in the USSR and Russia, including the nuclear-powered cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Chebanenko, the icebreakers Arktika and Sibir, and many other ships and vessels.

The company currently boasts a highly qualified workforce. Young specialists and scientists specializing in algorithm development are involved in innovative projects and the development of breakthrough technologies using elements of artificial intelligence.

Present at the agreement signing were Rector Andrey Rudskoy, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs Lyudmila Pankova, Vice Rector for Research Yuri Fomin, Academic Secretary Dmitry Karpov, Director of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Alexander Korotkov, Director of the Civil Engineering Institute Marina Petrochenko, Director of the Center for Scientific and Technical Development and Continuous Programming Oleg Ipatov, and Director of the Higher School of Electronics and Microsystems Engineering Vera Loboda. Meridian's representatives included Director General Alexander Aslanyan, Deputy Director General Alexander Kopanev, and HR Director Alla Sharshukova.

Our cooperation will be mutually beneficial. We will certainly be of assistance in training personnel. We will also jointly develop science and technical solutions," Andrey Rudskoy emphasized.

In addition, the rector of SPbPU spoke about the activities of all the university's institutes and noted how they could be involved in working with the enterprise.

The main goals of cooperation between SPbPU and NPF Meridian include:

Ensuring high-quality professional training of university graduates; Improving the effectiveness of fundamental and applied scientific research conducted by NPF Meridian and SPbPU; Ensuring the innovative nature of applied scientific research; Assistance in providing enterprises and organizations with young qualified specialists; Creation of organizational, scientific, educational, methodological, logistical and innovative potential for the implementation of joint activities of the university and NPF Meridian in the field of relevant scientific and technical, scientific and educational, scientific and innovative, investment, industrial and production, socio-economic and consulting projects and programs; Joint implementation of scientific and educational, scientific research, scientific and innovative, experimental design and other work in priority and promising areas of development of science, technology and engineering.

Alexander Aslanyan spoke in detail about the company's activities and noted the benefits of collaborating with Polytechnic University.

After signing the agreement, the university's new partners were given a tour of the Technopolis Polytech Scientific Research Center. The guests were shown the Institute of Electrical Engineering and Technology's laboratory, where the institute's director, Alexander Korotkov, described their key developments. The Meridian Scientific and Production Company delegation also visited the SPbPU supercomputer center and the Mechanical Engineering Technologies and Materials Research and Education Center.

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