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Sports infrastructure will be built in Shipilovsky Proezd according to the KRT project

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The Moscow government has decided to implement a comprehensive territorial development project (CTD) in the Orekhovo-Borisovo Yuzhnoye and Orekhovo-Borisovo Severnoye districts. Sports infrastructure will be created there, according to the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Urban Development Policy and Construction. Vladimir Efimov.

"The city has approved the KRT project on Shipilovsky Proyezd. The 6.61-hectare site is located in the Orekhovo-Borisovo Yuzhnoye and Orekhovo-Borisovo Severnoye districts. Modern sports facilities are planned for construction here. The redevelopment of the territory will be carried out by an investor selected through a tender. The work is planned to be completed within four years. The project will create approximately 1,800 jobs," said Vladimir Efimov.

The site designated for redevelopment is located at 55 Shipilovsky Proezd. The Orekhovo and Domodedovskaya stations on the Zamoskvoretskaya metro line are nearby.

"Among the facilities that could be built are a sports and fitness center with a swimming pool, a skating rink, and a fitness center. The total area of the sports facilities will be almost 56,000 square meters. In addition to the construction of buildings, landscaping activities and the creation of the necessary road infrastructure are planned," added the Moscow Government Minister and Head of the Moscow Department of Urban Development Policy.

Vladislav Ovchinsky.

Earlier, Sergei Sobyanin made decisions on the integrated development of territories inseven districts.

As part of the Integrated Territorial Development (ITD) program, attractive urban spaces are being created in former industrial zones, inefficiently used, and undeveloped areas, seamlessly integrating into the city's fabric. Currently, 336 IID projects, covering a total area of over 4,200 hectares, are at various stages of development and implementation in the capital. The program is being implemented for on behalf of Mayor of Moscow.

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SPbGASU continues its participation in the "Universities for the Front" campaign.

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SPbGASU once again joined the "Universities for the Front" campaign, organized by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The Youth Policy Department initiated a collection of aid for SVO participants and organized the delivery of the supplies to the general collection point.

University faculty and staff assembled catalytic heaters, camouflage nets, thermal underwear, a chainsaw, and a universal mini-oven.

The students participated in the "Warmth" initiative, which involved making trench candles. The initiative was initiated by Andrey Nikulin, Dean of the Civil Engineering Faculty, and Anna Tsarenko, his deputy for educational work. Nadezhda Talash, a specialist in the Department for the Protection of State Secrets, supervised the students' work. The candle-making process was labor-intensive: the students first made cardboard blanks in tin cans for paraffin filling, then heated the paraffin in the laboratory and poured it into the molds. Forty-seven trench candles were produced. The students also handcrafted talismans for the soldiers and wrote them letters of support.

Vice-Rector for Youth Policy Marina Malyutina and Head of the Youth Policy Department Irina Nuryeva thanked all participants of the event and visited the Faculty of Automobile and Road Engineering, where another humanitarian aid collection point had been set up. Thanks to the efforts of master's students Oleg Shidov, Andrey Ulyashov, and Anastasia Petrova, the students collected supplies for the soldiers, including camouflage nets, thermal underwear, trench candles, a diesel generator, and much more.

Humanitarian aid from our university's staff and students has arrived at the single collection point for aid for participants in the Secondary Military District and residents of new regions, collected by educational organizations. It operates on the campus of the National Research University "MPEI" in Moscow. From MPEI, the latest batch of aid has been sent by convoy to the front lines.

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Sobyanin congratulated Moscow metro builders on their professional holiday.

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Russia celebrates Metro Builder's Day on October 2. Sergei Sobyanin wrote on his channel MAX messenger congratulated the industry's workers and veterans on their professional holiday.

"Several generations of builders have been creating the best Moscow metro in the world—the backbone of the transportation system, a landmark, and the pride of the capital. Each new station represents new encounters and plans, opportunities, and dreams that you have helped bring to life," the Moscow Mayor noted.

Source: Sergei Sobyanin's channel inMAX messenger

This year, the capital's metro builders completed the first stage of construction Trinity Line and began to dig new tunnels Biryulevskaya lineConstruction continues. Rublevo-Arkhangelsk line metro. In the city center, on the Circle Line, specialists are working on a complex project – a station Dostoevskaya.

"The Moscow metro is developing at an unprecedented pace"And for this, dear friends, Muscovites thank you very much. I wish you good health, prosperity, and continued success in your creative endeavors," wrote Sergei Sobyanin.

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A bust of German Titov took pride of place on Cosmonauts' Alley.

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A bust of German Titov, cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, Doctor of Military Sciences, and the first person to complete a long-duration space flight, was installed on Cosmonauts' Alley near the Cosmonautics Museum (111 Mira Avenue).

The monument was created by a team of sculptors including Alexander Alubaev and architects Sergei Kolobov and Ildar Salimov. The All-Russian public organization "Russian Cosmonautics Federation" initiated the installation.

The opening ceremony was attended by representatives of federal and Moscow authorities, public and scientific institutions, relatives and friends of German Titov, as well as Muscovites and guests of the capital.

German Titov is the youngest cosmonaut in the history of space exploration. He was born on September 11, 1935, in the village of Verkh-Zhilino, Kosikhinsky District, Altai Krai, to a teacher and a public figure. After graduating from the aviation school in Kustanay (since 1997, Kostanay), he entered the Stalingrad Military Aviation School in Novosibirsk. In 1959, following medical and professional selection, he was accepted into the first Soviet cosmonaut corps.

For the outstanding abilities he demonstrated during training, the cosmonaut was appointed Yuri Gagarin's backup for the historic flight on April 12, 1961. In August 1961, Gherman Titov completed the first long-duration, multi-orbit flight aboard the Vostok 2 spacecraft, proving that it was possible to remain in space for extended periods. Furthermore, Gherman Titov became the first person to manually control a spacecraft and film the Earth from space. On August 9, 1961, for his courage and heroism during the space flight, he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

He spent the rest of his life serving in aviation and cosmonautics, making significant contributions to the scientific and technological development of the space industry and being an active public and government figure. Furthermore, German Titov wrote several books about space, including "My Blue Planet," "Aviation and Space," and others.

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The immersive exhibition "Lost Garden" opens at the Biocluster at VDNKh.

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The "Lost Garden" exhibition opens in Pavilion No. 29, "Floriculture and Landscaping," at the Biocluster at VDNKh. It is a joint project between the Timiryazev State Biological Museum and the HSE School of Design and Art and Design. The exhibition features works by students and graduates of the HSE School of Design and Art and Design.

The pavilion will be transformed into an immersive space, where the garden will symbolize the human soul and inner world. The exhibition is structured as a sequential journey through several thematic zones. The exhibition features ceramic sculptures: animal figures, abstract images of people and nature, and symbolic compositions. All of these are harmoniously combined with the plants. However, some exhibits can only be discovered upon closer inspection.

"The exhibition draws on the museum's resources and collections, which focus not on classical art but on scientific subjects. This is what makes the project unique: together with the students, we're exploring biological materials and motifs, trying to demonstrate how special and deeply personal the union of humanity, nature, and art can be," said Alexandra Zakharova, the project's curator.

A key exhibit at the exhibition will be the digital fantasy project "Flower Horoscope," created by the art group Agey Tomesh. The artists have created a collection of 366 flower images—one for each day of the year. Each image is accompanied by a description of the flower, its characteristics, and the personality of the person born on that day.

The exhibition's concept will be summarized by a video projection depicting a pulsating, ever-growing garden. It symbolizes the human inner world, where memory and dreams, temptations and losses, strength and vulnerability are intertwined.

"Today, the Biocluster allows the Biological Museum to expand the scope of its partnership projects. The "Lost Garden" exhibition will be a key milestone in the long-standing relationship between the museum and the HSE School of Art and Design. This is not just a project, but a new stage in the museum's collaboration with the country's largest educational institutions," noted Igor Ryabokon, Director of the Timiryazev State Biological Museum.

The exhibition will run until October 31.

"Biocluster" is a new multidisciplinary project by the K.A. Timiryazev State Biological Museum, located at VDNKh. It unites several thematic pavilions and garden and park areas. In June, the first exhibition, "Morphogenesis. Third Nature," opened there. It explores the transformation of form at the intersection of biology and contemporary art. The exhibition explores how the organic and the artificial merge to create new hybrid realities and unexpected forms.

The K.A. Timiryazev State Biological Museum is one of the largest biological museums in Russia, founded in 1922 by Professor Boris Zavadovsky. Today, its collections exceed 110,000 exhibits, and the exhibitions are housed both in the historic building on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street and at new sites at VDNKh. All major branches of biology, from zoology to anthropology, are represented here.

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The Department of Technosphere Safety is working on the safety of high-altitude work.

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At the Department of Technosphere Safety at SPbGASU, senior lecturer Nadezhda Subbotina completed a research project on "Improving the Occupational Safety of Workers Performing Work at Height in the Construction Industry by Improving the Safe Behavior Model." The study was conducted as part of a grant competition for research projects by academic staff at the St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering in 2025.

Numerous studies have shown a correlation between the number of hazardous actions by workers and the incidence of serious industrial accidents. Therefore, to reduce injuries and improve occupational safety when working at height, it is necessary to address the root cause of the problem—keeping records of hazardous actions by workers. Nadezhda Subbotina proposed a method for assessing the occupational risk of workers working at height, based on identifying the most severe hazardous actions and monthly recalculating the occupational risk level for the hazard of falling from a height.

To rank the severity of the consequences of various hazardous actions when working at height, expert opinions were collected and accident investigations were analyzed. If an employee commits a critical number of hazardous actions within a year, they are suspended from work and sent to unscheduled training in safe working practices at height.

To assess the effectiveness of occupational safety training, the researcher developed a questionnaire and assessment to determine workers' perceptions of hazards and their level of retained knowledge on occupational safety. An analysis of the questionnaire revealed that workers did not find the training valuable. A knowledge retention assessment revealed that workers' knowledge declined by more than 30% within three to six months of the last occupational safety training. A decline in retained knowledge may indicate insufficient employee motivation, a lack of practical application of the material covered, or that the training was insufficiently effective.

The study also revealed that on construction sites, the priority of completing production tasks is often placed above personal safety. Improving the priority of personal safety issues can be achieved by changing approaches to occupational safety training. This requires moving away from formal training and incorporating simulated consequences of violations and accident simulations into employee training. To improve the quality of safety training, it is necessary to implement practice-oriented approaches, such as interactive workshops and accident simulations. The "Smart Work" Training Center at St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering offers training using such innovative methods. These methods take into account psychological aspects and allow employees to more deeply absorb safety knowledge, thereby fostering safe behavior in the workplace.

As a result of the research work, articles were prepared for publication in journals included in the list of the Higher Attestation Commission.

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Polytechnic University students are winners of the "Digital Era of Transport" IT championship.

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A student team from the Institute of Civil Engineering at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, led by Liliya Talipova, senior lecturer at the Institute's School of Industrial, Civil, and Road Construction, won the "Digital Era of Transport" IT championship. The competition took place in Moscow.

The event was held with the support and participation of the Russian Ministry of Transport, the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Russian Ministry of Construction, Housing, and Utilities, the Federal Road Agency, the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the Federal Road Agency (Rosavtodor), the R.O.S.ASPHALT Association, and relevant agencies and institutes. The Digital Era of Transport Association served as the organizer.

The winners of this season's intermediate stages participated in the championship. The Polytechnic University team "Vysota," consisting of students from the Civil Engineering Institute: Evangelina Morozova, Anna Ryabova, Alexander Pakhomov, Igor Tokarev, and Yaroslav Sosnovsky, confidently solved the case "Development of a System for Analyzing and Predicting Road Pavement Performance under Various Operating Conditions," developed by Magistral Group. The team developed a web application and implemented a mathematical forecasting model.

"The championship victory was made possible by a clear division of work within the team: the engineering team developed physical and mathematical models for calculating the wear and service life of the pavement, while the IT team created the "Virtual Laboratory" web application, integrating these algorithms into a user-friendly interface," noted Evgeniya Morozova, a postgraduate student in the "Design and Construction of Roads, Subways, Airfields, Bridges, and Transport Tunnels" program at the Civil Engineering Institute.

During the case study, the Vysota Research Institute team demonstrated their skills in mathematical modeling and programming. "The project demonstrated that digitalization of transport requires close collaboration between engineers and developers: only together can they transform complex calculations into a clear and useful tool for users," Liliya Talipova emphasized.

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Polytechnic University and RAFU: a new stage in the development of a concept for reforming higher education in Mali

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In 2025, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, as the coordinator of the Russian-African Network University consortium, led a project to reform higher education in the Republic of Mali, as well as develop a concept for the creation of the Polytechnic University of Bandiagara.

This project was initiated under an agreement between the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Republic of Mali and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. Ten leading universities participating in the RAFU project joined the project, each coordinating the development of core educational programs in one of ten priority areas of study for Mali. The Polytechnic University took on the responsibility for civil engineering and ecology.

A significant amount of organizational work has already been completed, expert groups have been formed for each area, and teaching and methodological complexes have been developed for more than 30 educational programs at the future Bandiagara Polytechnic University.

A key event in this process was the visit of an official delegation from the Republic of Mali to SPbPU, which arrived as part of the "Digital Research Leadership" program of the RAFU Summer Multidisciplinary University. The delegation included key experts responsible for the establishment of the University of Bandiagara: Ousmane Mariko, Advisor to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Republic of Mali; Professor Yacouba Dao, Coordinator of Cooperation between Malian Universities and the Russian Federation; Ousmane Guindo, Rector of the newly established Polytechnic University of Bandiagara; and the future heads and coordinators of its faculties: Salif Nabounan Dembélé, Aboubacar Bengali, and Ali Kansay.

They held an official meeting with SPbPU Rector and RAFU Presidium Chairman Andrey Rudskoy. Participants included Dmitry Arsenyev, Vice-Rector for International Affairs; Marina Petrochenko, Director of the Civil Engineering Institute; Issa Togo, Honorary Consul of Mali in St. Petersburg and Associate Professor at the Institute of Civil Engineering; and Alla Mazina, Secretary of the RAFU Presidium. The partners discussed strategic issues related to reforming Mali's national education system. SPbPU Rector introduced his colleagues to Russian approaches to modernizing and transforming engineering education, as well as creating modern university campuses.

The Polytechnic will provide comprehensive support for reforming higher education in the Republic of Mali. We are ready to organize retraining and advanced training for your faculty. We will also be happy to accept Malian students into our educational programs at all levels," Andrei Ivanovich noted.

During the visit, the Malians completed a short-term internship. The topic was "Digital Technologies in Civil Engineering." This program is supervised by the Polytechnic University. The main working meeting was held at the Institute of Civil Engineering at SPbPU. Also participating were Maxim Terekh, Deputy Director for Academic and Methodological Work; Ksenia Strelets, Director of the Center for Continuing Professional Programs; Yuri Lazarev and Galina Kozinets, Directors of Higher Schools; and Mikhail Romanov, Personnel Manager for International Affairs.

Colleagues from Mali were introduced to the key competencies and infrastructure of the Institute of Civil Engineering. The delegation was given a tour of its cutting-edge laboratories. The guests visited innovation sites, including the Polytech MetaCampus center, the additive manufacturing and 3D printing lab, the Vysota research and education center, as well as modern laboratories for environmental monitoring, hydraulics, and innovative road construction materials. This allowed them to clearly demonstrate the university's practical potential for modernizing higher education in Mali.

Usman Guindo, Rector of the newly established Polytechnic University of Bandiagara, emphasized the importance of this collaboration: "Our university is being established in an area rich in various building materials. To utilize them effectively and ensure environmental conservation, we need to train highly qualified specialists. Therefore, the creation of a Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering is of utmost importance to us."

As part of the same Summer Multidisciplinary University, Malian representatives also visited other RAFU member universities overseeing agricultural technology, veterinary science, and animal husbandry—the St. Petersburg State Agrarian University and the St. Petersburg State University of Veterinary Medicine. Their Russian colleagues demonstrated their educational and scientific capabilities, which could form the basis for transforming these areas in Mali.

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The Moscow Seasons festival was held in the Middle East for the first time.

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The Moscow Seasons festival took place in Kuwait City for the first time. Kuwaiti residents explored Russian culture: they sampled tea from a samovar, learned about traditions, and made wishes for a future winter trip to Moscow. The festival attracted over 375,000 visitors, and the program culminated in a concert by the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra.

The main venue was the "Moscow" pavilion, located in Avenues, the Middle East's largest shopping mall. It featured live performances by musical groups playing balalaikas and performing folk songs, and a stand featuring the "Moscow Tea Party" project. Guests sampled signature teas and sweets. Visitors could also take a VR walk through the streets of the modern Russian capital and participate in quizzes and other activities. For example, visitors could post photos to the branded lens of the official Discover Moscow Snapchat account.

The "Winter Moscow" photo exhibition attracted particular attention. Visitors were invited to share their wishes for a future trip to the Russian capital. They selected special stickers describing what they would like to do in Moscow during the winter and then pasted them into the empty frames. Among the most popular wishes were a photo in a fur hat with earflaps, tea from a samovar, a husky sledding trip, and a visit to the largest skating rink in Europe.

The Moscow Seasons program culminated with a performance by the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra under Ivan Rudin at the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center. The hall was filled with ambassadors from the Persian Gulf and Southeast Asian countries, representatives of the tourism industry, and numerous admirers of Russian culture. For the Persian Gulf region, this event was a significant cultural milestone, and for Moscow, an important step toward entering a promising new tourism market. The audience enjoyed Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite "Scheherazade," Pyotr Tchaikovsky's suite from "The Nutcracker," and excerpts from Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird."

The following day, the orchestra's musicians held a master class for students from the College of Basic Education at the Kuwait Museum of Modern Art (Contemporary Art Platform). The participants included students from the class of composer and associate professor Abdullah Khalaf, a renowned Kuwaiti musician, conductor, and composer. The young Kuwaiti performers had the unique opportunity to work with Tatyana Sukhareva, a pianist and teacher in the piano department of the Central Music School of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory.

Tourist flow

Moscow continues to strengthen its position in the Middle East tourism market. In 2024, tourist flow from Kuwait to Moscow reached a record high (over 16,500 visitors), tripling the previous year's figures. This high level remains strong: in the first half of 2025, over 6,300 Kuwaiti tourists visited the capital—approximately the same number as in the same period last year.

More than a quarter of Kuwaiti visitors come to the Russian capital for cultural and educational purposes. Tourists from this country are characterized by high budgets (in 2024, they spent an average of over 272,000 rubles on a trip to Moscow) and a choice of premium hotels, as well as an interest in exclusive cultural and gastronomic experiences.

Moscow City Tourism Committee The project is creating a strong brand for the capital as a major tourist destination not only in Russia but also internationally. Moscow's most frequent visitors come from China, India, the CIS, and the Middle East. To strengthen its international ties, the Russian capital organizes business missions, showcases its tourism potential at industry exhibitions, and creates projects and hosts events aimed at international tourists, such as the "Chinese New Year in Moscow" festival.

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The best graffiti from the Netsten gallery was chosen through voting in the Active Citizen project.

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Participants voting The Active Citizen project selected the best graffiti from the "Figure of Speech" street art exhibition at the Netsten Gallery. The artists displayed their works on a concrete canvas near the Winzavod and Artplay creative clusters.

Six participants were in contention for the win. Alexander Demkin's work, depicting a portrait of a girl reflected on a water surface, received the most votes, approximately 41 percent. The idea behind this graffiti is the eternal dialogue between classical and contemporary art and the search for balance. Second place (25 percent of the votes) went to Evgeny Malyshev's abstract architectural collage, in which a sculptural composition is washed by sea foam. Artem Stefanov's optical illusion, reflecting the energy of a metropolis, rounded out the top three (13 percent of the votes).

In total, more than 207 thousand Muscovites shared their opinions.

The street gallery was organized by the capital Committee on Architecture and Urban Planning (Moskomarkhitektura) in collaboration with the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art. Thematic exhibitions of the Netsten project are held twice a year and allow innovative artists to bring their work to a wider audience, while also introducing contemporary art enthusiasts to new names in the art community.

Project Active Citizen has been operating since 2014. During this time, more than seven million people have joined, and over seven thousand votes have been held. Between 30 and 40 decisions are implemented in the city every month. The project is being developed by the State Public Institution "New Management Technologies" and the Moscow Department of Information Technology.

The creation, development and operation of e-government infrastructure, including the provision of mass socially significant services, as well as other services in electronic form, are consistent with the objectives of the national project "Data Economy and Digital Transformation of the State" and the Moscow regional project "Digital Public Administration." More information about Russia's national projects and the capital's contribution can be found atspecial page.

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