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"Don't waste time – win here and now": Ilya Averbukh and Zlata Chepurnaya shared their winning stories with GUU students

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On October 2, the State University of Management hosted a unique meeting with renowned figure skater and producer Ilya Averbukh and Zlata Chepurnaya, director of the Star Landing project, as part of the "Knowledge.Sport" project. The event was organized by the Russian "Knowledge" Society.

The event was opened by Vladimir Stroev, Rector of the State University of Management, with a welcoming speech:

"Today we'll be engaging in dialogue with true legends in their fields. Those studying in fields related to sports, management, event planning, and more will be especially interested in listening to the guests' presentations, talking with them, and learning how to achieve success in these fields. The main benefit of such interaction is that it inspires new achievements and steps toward career and life development."

The discussion with the stars took place in a question-and-answer format. The session was moderated by Anna Khaustova, Program Director of the Boiling Point at the State University of Management, and Nikita Smirnov, a third-year student in the Department of Public and Municipal Administration.

Zlata Chepurnaya spoke about the history of the "Starship Troopers" project and the creation of the team's anthem, the importance and benefits of a healthy lifestyle, her personal experience, and her plans for the future.

"The idea for the project came to me in 2014 at the 'Race of Heroes,' when I asked myself, 'What could I do in the event of real combat? How can I be of service to my country?' And so I decided to promote sports, a healthy lifestyle, and a responsible attitude toward the planet and people. Together with a team of famous athletes, presenters, actors, and other media personalities, we host various events where everyone can test their strengths, prove themselves, and become healthier and happier," Zlata shared.

To back up her words, the guest led a warm-up session, which was attended not only by students but also by the meeting moderators, as well as Ilya Averbukh.

The next part of the meeting was devoted to the second guest. The Olympic silver medalist, choreographer, and ice show producer spoke frankly about his journey in sports and after retirement, as well as his reasons for returning to Russia and creating ice shows. But the most important part of his speech was the powerful motivation for anyone who wants to succeed:

"Don't be afraid to start doing something. The main thing is to do it. Gradually, what you need will come to you: people, resources, opportunities, results. Therefore, it's worth pursuing even the most seemingly mythical plans. Be prepared to pursue your goal, be open to advice, listen to advice, and learn new things. Don't waste time; win here and now. Even if you don't immediately become the best at something, it's not a failure, but a test of your strength, emotions, and abilities. Don't hoard your strength, and then the story of your victories will be with you."

Students in the audience also asked questions. They were interested in the books the guests were reading, ways to combat anxiety and burnout, the recovery period after injuries, and, of course, the demand for sports managers.

Zlata Chepurnaya named her favorite works about the subconscious and the universe as a whole, advised turning fear into strength, and also recommended finding a place of power where you can recharge in a matter of hours.

Ilya Averbukh, for his part, explained that it's impossible to completely overcome anxiety; you just need to train your body and mind to act clearly and correctly, despite distractions. The athlete also admitted that despite understanding the importance of rest and periodic disconnection from the outside world, he doesn't practice this in his own life because he doesn't want to miss out on opportunities and worries that it will be difficult to return to his usual busy lifestyle after a break.

Ilya Averbukh also emphasized the importance of having a professional manager for an athlete. This person helps shape the athlete's image, navigate the world of contracts and offers, seeks out interesting proposals, and is an integral part of the athlete's team.

The meeting concluded with a group photo and an interview with the guests, which will soon be released on our YouTube channel.

It's worth noting that the Russian Society "Knowledge," with the support of the Russian Ministry of Sport, is implementing the Znanie.Sport project, which aims to promote physical fitness and a healthy lifestyle among young people. Young people are taught the principles of proper nutrition, daily routines, and how to achieve victory. The project launched on September 8 and will cover all regions of the country. Events include lectures, film screenings, and quizzes.

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Developing soft skills and engaging leisure activities: First-year students attended the "Opportunity Fair"

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Source: Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering –

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Getting to Know the Student Media Center

For several days, student activists set up exhibitions of numerous studios, projects, and associations operating within our university's extracurricular activities at various locations within the main building of SPbGASU. A wide range of leisure, creative, and sports activities were showcased at the large-scale "Opportunity Fair."

Useful activities and interesting leisure time

The "Opportunity Fair" is primarily organized for first-year students who are still adapting to student life, explained Irina Nuryeva, Head of the Youth Policy Department at SPbGASU. According to her, this traditional annual event has proven effective, attracting a large number of students to associations.

At the associations' booths set up in the "Growth Point" public space, visitors and event organizers engaged in lively conversations: the former asked questions, while the latter answered them in detail and described the benefits of specific activities, drawing on their practical experience. For example, Anastasia Kozlova, a fourth-year construction student, joined the "Adapters" project in her first year. Before heading the project, she was an adapter for the construction faculty. The adapters' goal is to help first-year students integrate into student life. But the project also benefits the activists themselves.

"Being an adapter is awesome! The project gives you the opportunity to develop as a leader and learn the principles of team building. It also serves as a great springboard for other endeavors. For example, many of the students who serve on our university's student council began their community service through our project. Working as an adapter helps you develop flexible skills that are essential for your future career, because your ability to communicate, negotiate, and communicate goals will determine your success. Our project has broad goals and objectives: we're looking for ambitious, responsible, responsive, and goal-oriented individuals who are willing to grow despite any challenges," Anastasia explained.

Along with already successful projects, new student associations are emerging at SPbGASU. One such association is the "Whisper of a Campfire" tourism club. Its leader is Maria Karakulova, a third-year student in the Faculty of Civil Engineering. Last academic year, she participated in two federal projects: the District Educational Forum "Student Tourism of the Northwestern Federal District 2025" in Arkhangelsk and the All-Russian Tourism Rally "Mayovka" in Pyatigorsk. In Arkhangelsk, Maria attended lectures on youth tourism trends and then learned about active tourism, which sparked her interest. It was presented on a larger scale in Pyatigorsk.

"At the Mayovka rally in Pyatigorsk, I attended lectures by the Association for the Development of Active Youth Tourism (ARMAT) and was inspired by the idea of creating a hiking club at our university. It turns out there was one several years ago, but it closed when its student founders graduated. We're just getting started, and for now, we plan to go on day hikes through the cities and natural areas of the Leningrad Region and create ecological trails. As we develop the necessary hiking skills and acquire equipment, we'll expand the range and geography of our routes. We also plan to organize lectures on various types of tourism and collaborate with the youth extreme sports club "Spasatel" on rock climbing. We're looking for active students willing to travel, train, and organize events," explained Maria Karakulova.

Student groups set up their booths in the gym. First-year construction student Ivan Izotov admits he was impressed by the number of interesting groups, and interacting with their representatives was a pleasant experience.

"Today I learned not only about student associations, but also about their benefits, interesting projects, and opportunities. Everyone here is friendly and eager to share their experiences. For example, as part of a student construction team, you can work on a construction site and gain experience, earn a salary, and complete an internship. I intend to work in my chosen field, so I immediately appreciated these opportunities," Ivan shared.

Each faculty has its own projects

One day of the “Opportunity Fair” was dedicated to presentations of initiatives and projects operating within the faculties.

Second-year architecture student Victoria Duzenko manages the Arkkino and READING GROUP projects.

"Arkhkino is a film screening and coworking space in a cozy studio atmosphere. We watch films together and discuss them. "READING GROUP" has been around for about five years, where we read and discuss books over tea in a comfortable setting. We start by introducing the plot and only then move on to the discussion, so we invite even those who haven't read the book on the program. We hold these events regularly; they're popular and attract 20-25 participants," said Victoria Duzenko.

First-year student Petr Gromov lingered at the Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Urban Management booth for a reason: he's a student there. He was told about the student body recruitment process and projects. "That's all interesting, but I enjoy playing guitar and would like to continue playing music: is there an opportunity for that at the university?" he asked. He was advised to contact the Kirpich Student Leisure and Creativity Center, which was also participating in the "Opportunity Fair."

Andrey Slastin, a second-year student in the Faculty of Civil Engineering, is already part of the team and is talking to first-year students about its initiatives. Meanwhile, he's also interested in projects from other departments. After speaking with activists from the Faculty of Economics and Management, he decided to participate in the "Musicality" project.

"The student councils and faculty leaders at our university are friendly, so we attend each other's events. We spend our free time together and share experiences. Our faculty invites everyone to our annual events: Construction Week, Brick Day, and Designer's Day. There are so many projects, it's impossible to list them all," shared Andrey Slastin.

Our guest is Tavrida

Anna Valyaeva, a specialist in the educational services department at the Tavrida Art Cluster, took part in the "Opportunity Fair."

"The Tavrida Art Cluster is a creative ecosystem of projects located in Kapsel Bay near Sudak in Crimea. Tavrida offers both students and active young people under 35 the opportunity to develop in their chosen field. There are many areas. For example, a music label, where a team of producers, artists, and musicians support the creativity of young artists of all genres, helping to realize their bold ideas and organize spectacular shows. We also have the Yug. Kino studio, the largest film, web, and television production studio in southern Russia, where participants can shoot their own films. The Art Cluster's publishing house provides professional support for the publication of fiction, research, guidebooks, books on contemporary art, and patriotic and historical publications. To participate in projects and educational programs, you can submit an application and request information on the Tavrida website," explained Anna Valyaeva.

A specialist gave a detailed presentation of Tavrida's projects to the "Opportunity Fair" participants. Incidentally, our university's students already have successful experience participating in this art cluster, and judging by the reaction of those present, the number of participants will increase.

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Vladimir Stroev spoke at the lecture hall of the V International Financial Security Olympiad.

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The Siberian Federal University continues its intensive educational program for finalists of the 5th International Financial Security Olympiad, with Vladimir Stroyev, Rector of the State University of Management, participating.

Rectors of the country's leading universities, which train specialists in various fields of technological, economic, legal, and information security, give lectures to Olympiad participants and SFU students.

The lecture by the rector of the State University of Management (GUU) focused on the domestic governance model. Vladimir Stroyev discussed its characteristics, which partly correspond to the principles of the planned economy developed and successfully applied in the USSR. A particularly interesting feature of the lecture was a critical analysis of the Russian governance model proposed by artificial intelligence. The rector pointed out to the students typical cliches and stereotypes about the Russian economy that the AI had gleaned from Western scientific literature.

"The problem is that they're trying to apply traditional Western governance models to Russia, but given geopolitical, cultural, and historical circumstances, these models are ineffective and sometimes even dangerous for the country. Moreover, some of the country's governance know-how is now being successfully used worldwide, but credited to everyone but Russia," Vladimir Stroyev noted.

The rector of the State University of Management then went on to examine in detail the historical and cultural origins of the Russian model of governance, including geography, the communal and collectivist nature of the Russian people, the influence of Orthodoxy with its idea of service, and the Soviet legacy of a planned economy.

Vladimir Stroyev mentioned the significant contribution of Olimpiada Kozlova, rector of the Moscow Engineering and Economics Institute (now the State University of Management), to the systematization and theoretical substantiation of management science in our country, whose work laid the foundation for the subsequent development of management in the USSR and Russia.

"Today, the Russian economy and the domestic management school are being called mobilizational, in an attempt to prove that Russia cannot live in peace. But most of the country's crises occurred precisely when attempts were made to apply European management models to us, without adaptation, without taking into account our traditions and mentality. The Russian management school needs to be studied, implemented, and described," Vladimir Stroyev concluded.

Let us remind you that three students from the Institute of Economics and Finance of the State University of Management and three students from our Pre-University School made it to the Olympiad finals.

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Orchestra

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The Phoenix Cultural Center will host the premiere of the play "Orchestra" by the senior group of the Faces School of Performing Arts, based on the play by Jean Anouilh and directed by Georgy Mulika.

The action takes place in post-war France, where a small orchestra entertains guests at a resort. But behind the music lie tragic stories that the musicians re-live on stage. The production transcends the confines of a play and becomes a tale of humanity in all its diversity and contradictions. Love and jealousy, youth and old age, war and peace, life and death—all are expressed through the language of theater, dance, and music, evoking the deepest emotions in the audience.

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Pumpkin Party

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The Shabolovke Gallery invites you to a costumed event, "Pumpkin Party," for parents and children. The entire evening will be held in English in a playful and friendly atmosphere, led by teachers from Alexandra Kleshchina's immersive language studio.

Guests can expect a costume parade, dancing and cheerful songs in English, the traditional game of Apple Bobbing, a web of challenges with unusual tasks, a master class on creating pumpkins, spiders, and ghosts, and a candy game.

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Poems and fairy tales by Galina Maltseva

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Library No. 32 invites you to the program “Poems and Tales of Galina Maltseva.”

Young guests will be introduced to the children's author's books—Ten Sheep, Tea with Dew and Strawberries, Clara the Snail, and Advice from the Champion Tortoise—and will hear poems from the "In One Kingdom" series and the fairy tale "What Happens When Letters Meet." The program includes the attention game "The King Said," a discussion about letters, and the workshop "Come Up with More Words." At the end, everyone will have the opportunity to get an autograph from the author and take a souvenir photo.

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A gift for a favorite teacher

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Khodynka Field Park invites children aged six and up to the master class "A Gift for Your Favorite Teacher."

The children will create a decorative flower arrangement on a wooden base using natural materials and jute. This handmade gift will be a special addition to any home and a token of gratitude to the teacher.

All materials are provided.

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Financial news: On October 3, 2025, JSC KAVKAZ.RF will hold a deposit auction.

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Parameters;

The deposit auction date is 03.10.2025. Placement currency is RUB. The maximum amount of funds placed (in the placement currency) is 100,000,000. Placement term, days – 8. Date of depositing funds is 06.10.2025. Date of return of funds is 14.10.2025. Minimum placement interest rate, % per annum is 16.2. Terms of the conclusion, urgent or special (urgent). The minimum amount of funds placed for one application (in the placement currency) is 100,000,000. The maximum number of applications from one Participant, pcs. 1. Auction form, open or closed (Open).

The basis of the Agreement is the General Agreement. Schedule (Moscow time). Preliminary bids from 10:00 to 10:10. Competitive bids from 10:10 to 10:15. The cutoff percentage may be set or the auction may be declared void by 10:25. Additional terms and conditions.

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Mikhail Mishustin visited the exhibition "85 Years of the Secondary Vocational Education System: Strength in Mastery!"

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The Prime Minister toured the exhibition and met with winners and runners-up of national professional skills championships, the "Master of the Year" competition, students, and directors of leading clusters within the federal "Professionalism" project.

The secondary vocational education (SVE) system is the largest educational infrastructure in the country, including 3,200 vocational educational organizations and 376 higher education organizations implementing SVE programs.

In 2025, SPO celebrates its 85th anniversary (on October 2, 1940, the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On the State Labor Reserves of the USSR" was adopted, the first schools for factory training, vocational and railway schools for training workers appeared).

Since 2022, October 2, in accordance with the Presidential Decree of July 25, 2022 No. 496, has been officially declared the Day of Secondary Vocational Education.

Secondary vocational education plays a strategic role in the country's development, developing human resources for industry, technology, and social infrastructure. The system employs 199,474 teaching staff, including 147,303 teachers and 18,779 vocational training instructors.

In the 2025/2026 academic year, 1.2 million students were enrolled in secondary vocational education programs. 62.5% of ninth-grade school graduates choose to study in secondary vocational education programs. The total number of students enrolled in all forms of education at the beginning of the academic year exceeded 3.85 million.

In 2025, approximately 1,004,500 people graduated from secondary vocational education programs, and the employment rate of college graduates today reaches 80.5%, indicating the high efficiency of training personnel in line with employer requirements.

To help students in grades 6–11 choose their future profession, a unified career guidance model was introduced in every school starting September 1, 2023, covering more than 8.5 million students and involving 13,400 employers.

A significant change in the secondary vocational education system is the implementation of the federal project "Professionalism" starting in 2022, which provides for the formation of secondary vocational education clusters, as well as a set of measures to modernize the system in the interests of economic and industrial development.

In 2025, 506 clusters across 24 economic sectors will operate in 86 regions, with more than 2,400 employer organizations participating.

To attract internship recipients to the secondary vocational education system, the federal "Professionality" project offers continuing professional education programs for workers returning from production, prize winners, and winners of professional skills championships. More than 2,200 students have already completed this training.

A significant development mechanism for the secondary vocational education system is the professional skills championship movement, which includes:

— high technology championship;

— championship in professional skills “Professionals”;

— championship in professional skills among disabled people and people with limited health capabilities "Abilympics".

A new initiative is the Abilympics Professional Skills Championship, a series of events held at the federal level that includes competency-based competitions, professional skills tests, business, cultural, and other events among disabled SVO participants.

In 2025, the professional skills championships will reach over 1 million people, including over 330,000 college students and schoolchildren aged 14 and older. The championship movement is supported by over 7,500 employers.

The All-Russian competition for teachers in the secondary vocational education system, "Master of the Year," has been held since 2021 to reward teachers, enhance the prestige of the teaching profession, promote cutting-edge ideas in education and training, and study and implement best teaching practices.

In 2025, 9,831 teaching staff took part in the competition, with 89 teachers from all constituent entities of the Federation participating in the final stage.

The competition finals will take place from September 29 to October 2 in Kursk, the hometown of the 2024 winner, Dmitry Medvedev, director of the Kursk College of Information Technology.

From the transcript:

M. Mishustin: Good afternoon, dear friends!

First of all, I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate you, your colleagues, all the students, and all the faculty on the anniversary of the secondary vocational education system. Three years ago, the President proposed celebrating SVE Day. I hope it has already become a good tradition for you.

The secondary vocational education system trains specialists without whom no economic or industrial sector can develop. We just saw at the exhibition what a difficult journey the vocational education system has traveled over the past 85 years. I already said today, greeting the students at the "Master of the Year" competition, that, of course, there is no such thing as a secondary education system. These systems, I believe, are vestiges of the past, the 1990s. Part of today's exhibition was dedicated to that period.

College graduates now receive an excellent education—a professional education that the country needs. It's an education that enables young people to develop, to build the country's industrial and economic shield, and to help achieve the national development goals set by the President.

Today, our country has over 3,200 colleges, attended by approximately 4 million young people. They offer careers in any of 500 specialties across all key economic sectors. Incidentally, today's exhibit showcased professions that were once offered through the secondary vocational education system in the Soviet Union. These are completely different professions from different sectors of the economy. Today, you can also obtain a wide variety of professions—from modern specialties in information technology, software development, and nuclear energy to medicine, education, and more.

To be continued.

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Mikhail Mishustin congratulated teachers and students of colleges and technical schools on Secondary Vocational Education Day.

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Secondary Vocational Education Day is celebrated annually on October 2.

Dear friends!

Congratulations on Secondary Vocational Education Day.

In today's world, one of the key tasks is training qualified workers for key economic sectors and leading companies. Russian technical schools and colleges are annually introducing the most in-demand specialties and programs, and implementing cutting-edge educational standards.

The system of secondary vocational education continues to be consistently improved. Priority is being given to the implementation of the federal project "Professionalism." Training and production clusters have been created where students not only gain theoretical knowledge but also hone their skills using the latest equipment and develop competitive skills that meet modern requirements.

And this is largely due to the remarkable teachers, mentors, and vocational training instructors. You help develop the talents and abilities of those who will shape our future and ensure technological sovereignty, and you instill in students an interest in subjects that develop professional competencies. By your own example, you inspire young people to achieve lofty goals. Your dedicated work, passion, and creativity deserve sincere respect and recognition.

I wish you success in all your endeavors, breakthrough discoveries for the benefit of the country, health and all the best.

M. Mishustin

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