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Polytechnics beyond the Arctic Circle: Gazprom invited students to an operating fuel production facility for the first time

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The 3rd Meeting of Gazprom's target students took place in the shift settlement of Yamburg (YaNAO). It was attended by 150 students from the company's specialized universities from all over the country. The meeting was held for the first time at an operating gas production facility.

The program of the meeting included lectures on the development of gas production at the Kara Sea shelf fields, trainings, team-building events and a team case championship. The students saw Gazprom production facilities at the Yamburg oil and gas condensate field, visited social and household facilities of the rotational village, and got acquainted with the culture and traditions of the indigenous peoples of the North.

Two students from the Institute of Power Engineering, in the Electrical Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering program, participated in the meeting from the Polytechnic University: Leonid Golubev (3rd year bachelor's degree student) and Vladimir Sergeev (1st year master's degree student), target students of Gazprom Transgaz Saint Petersburg.

"The gathering included interesting training sessions on soft skills development. It was interesting to solve cases, learn new things, improve communication and teamwork skills. The organizers also tried to fill the program with excursions, events "at the edge of the earth". This gathering will be remembered for the knowledge acquired, friends and emotions," Vladimir shared.

"Surrounded by one and a half hundred talented students from all over Russia, I solved current problems of developing new deposits. All this together helped me to start believing in myself more, not to be afraid to move forward, to learn to look for new non-standard solutions," Leonid said.

Polytechnic employees also participated in the event as experts on the case championship jury: Elvira Tuktamysheva, Head of the Employment Assistance Sector, and Janis Olekhnovich, Curator of the “PAO Gazprom Flagship University” project.

"Immersion in the corporate culture, production and business processes of the company shows students their immediate future after graduation," Elvira Tuktamysheva noted. "Thanks to this, the likelihood of stress during the transition from studying at a university to working in a company is reduced. Such a system helps the guys more easily adapt to a new stage in their professional career."

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Yandex Education student camp on natural language processing has started at Novosibirsk State University

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Today, the Yandex Education student camp on NLP (Natural Language Processing) started at the Novosibirsk State University. It is attended by 100 students from IT departments of universities from all over the country. In two weeks, the participants will master key approaches to text processing, as well as work with large language models BERT, GPT and YandexGPT (used for content analysis and generation) in practice. At the end of the student camp, students will defend team projects that they can add to their own portfolios. Participants will teach artificial intelligence to structure information, find contradictions in texts, search for data in complex documents where text, tables and graphs are mixed, and also improve the reasoning skills of language models.

Minister of Digital Development and Communications of the Novosibirsk Region Sergey Tsukar emphasized: The Novosibirsk Region, as the capital of IT personnel, always supports the holding of various educational events on digital topics and is happy to host IT students from all over the country.

— In the Novosibirsk Region, 10 universities and 14 colleges train IT specialists. NSU is our reliable partner. The guys had a chance to study at one of the best universities — world-class and at one of the leading scientific centers of Russia — Akademgorodok. This is a unique opportunity — to get concentrated, fundamental knowledge in the field of artificial intelligence in two weeks, which usually takes months to study. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a trend, it is our reality today. I thank Yandex for such relevant, interesting, free educational projects, — noted Sergey Tsukar.

NSU has been cooperating with Yandex for many years. Based on Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of NSU A master's program was opened with the support of the School of Data Analysis – "Applied Machine Learning and Big Data". Many graduates of the program work in large IT companies.

— It is an honor for us that such an event is held at Novosibirsk University. The student camp is an intensive course in IT areas, which is held by Yandex Education together with the leading universities of our country. Of course, our university, which is located in the very center of Akademgorodok, is one of such universities. I hope that these two weeks will be truly intensive for you, there will be intense work. There was a very big competition for the student camp, the best were selected. You will leave here not only with new acquaintances, friends, new impressions, but also with new knowledge. You will be taught by experts from Yandex and our university. I think this will help you in your professional career, and in some time, I am sure, we will be proud of many of you, — said the rector of NSU, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Fedoruk.

The first week of the student camp is devoted to getting acquainted with key approaches to NLP. Participants will understand the architecture of transformers (models that use the attention mechanism for fast learning), study methods of adaptation and interpretation of models, and master the tasks of classification, generation and error tolerance. They will also study advanced technologies: attention mechanisms, autoregressive models, multimodality and RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation). In the second week, students will focus on practice: they will work with data analysis and the final defense of a project that solves real problems at the intersection of science and industry.

Kirill Barannikov, Head of Strategic Development of Higher Education at Yandex Education, notes:

— We focus on new formats of education, and student camps are one of them. Full-time intensive programs are open to students from all over Russia. They provide not only relevant knowledge, access to big tech technologies, but also the opportunity to meet practicing industry experts and teachers from the country's strongest universities. In addition, in two weeks, participants have time to put together a full-fledged project for their portfolio and immerse themselves in a new socio-cultural environment – the city and university where the student camp is taking place. Almost 1,200 students from 200 universities applied for the NLP program at NSU – the competition was about 12 people per place. The selected participants will study natural language processing technologies, which are used today in various fields: from developing voice assistants to analyzing big data.

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Yandex Education student camps are two-week intensive courses in mathematics, IT and artificial intelligence, which are held at leading Russian universities in a face-to-face format. Participating students come to the university for two weeks to immerse themselves in an educational program on a specific topic and create a team project for their own portfolio.

Experts from Yandex, SHAD and the host university participate in creating content for student camps. The creators of the program include both practicing specialists and theorists with experience in teaching.

The project is designed for 3rd-4th year undergraduate students who are already studying computer science at the university and have a base in programming and mathematics. Junior students can also participate in the selection if their knowledge allows them to master the program.

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Candidates for the title of "Ambassadors of Russian Education and Science" have been approved

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A key meeting of the Council of the Consortium of Educational and Scientific Organizations was held, dedicated to the approval of candidates for the honorary title of "Ambassador of Russian Education and Science". In February 2023, an agreement was signed on the consortium for the implementation of the "Ambassadors of Russian Education and Science" program, among its participants is the Polytechnic University. The session considered 21 submissions from 12 Russian universities. The Polytechnic nominated Liu Wei (China) and Issa Togo (Mali).

The activities of both candidates have been promoting Russian education abroad for decades. Secretary General of the Institute of Russia at Tsinghua University Liu Wei has been overseeing scientific and technical cooperation with the Russian Federation since 2002. Dozens of projects have been implemented under her leadership, including Russian-Chinese dialogues on innovation, the creation of Russian language testing centers, and youth competitions.

A 1985 graduate of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, associate professor at SPbPU and Honorary Consul of Mali in St. Petersburg, Issa Togo coordinates academic ties with African universities, participates in the reform of higher education in Mali and heads a large-scale hydroelectric project.

The consortium council unanimously approved the candidates, sending the documents for final approval to the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. If successful, Liu Wei and Issa Togo will join the ranks of 24 current ambassadors from 22 countries.

"Liu Wei and Issa Togo are not just allies, but living bridges between cultures. Their dedication to education is the polytechnic spirit in action: when a graduate, wherever he is, continues to carry the banner of his alma mater. We are proud that it is our candidates who set the tone in promoting Russian values abroad. Their recognition is an investment in the future, where science and education know no boundaries," commented Dmitry Arsenyev, Vice-Rector for International Affairs at SPbPU.

Under the program "Ambassadors of Russian Education and Science", which unites 44 universities of the country, since 2023, 24 experts from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America have been awarded the title. Polytechnic University is traditionally among the most active participants in the initiative.

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Happy birthday to Marina Grigorieva!

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This Saturday there is a reason and opportunity to celebrate the birthday of the director of the Pre-University of the State University of Management, Marina Grigorieva.

Pre-University is the first stage in the system of seamless project-based learning at the State University of Management. Marina Yuryevna helps students overcome this stage, begin to get used to adult life and learn responsibility for their future. The combination of the strictness necessary to maintain discipline and a motherly attitude towards her charges creates a pleasant working environment for schoolchildren in Pre-University.

Let us wish one of the most kind-hearted directors at the State University of Management the unfailing love of his students and the respect of his colleagues, pedagogical resourcefulness, interesting methodological solutions, success in his work, good health and all-consuming happiness, as well as the spiritual strength for the annual separation from his children who have become almost his own.

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HSE experts assessed the “cost” of options for developing legislation on digital platforms and proposed an optimum

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Alexander Novak made a working visit to the Republic of Tatarstan.

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Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak made a working visit to the Republic of Tatarstan. He held a meeting with the head of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, spoke at the Oil Summit, visited the republic's infrastructure and educational facilities, and met with participants in regional industry competitions and school Olympiads.

Alexander Novak visited the Tatneft scientific and educational center, the Higher School of Oil, where he met with schoolchildren who won the Sustainable Development Goals competition, the environmental Olympiad, and the leaders of the School Biolaboratories program. "New industries require engineers and scientists of a new format, for whom imaginative thinking, research skills, and the ability to make effective decisions come to the fore. Therefore, in addition to the specialized knowledge that you receive here, it is important that you learn to communicate, be a leader, and work in a team. All the necessary conditions are in place for this – modern laboratories, comfortable classrooms, and experienced teachers," said Alexander Novak.

He visited the exhibition of oil and gas equipment as part of the Oil Summit, and also spoke at the panel session "Tatneft – 75 years of technological leadership and contribution to the development of the Russian fuel and energy complex: a look into a sustainable future." The Deputy Prime Minister spoke about the implementation of tasks to achieve technological sovereignty. "As part of the energy strategy until 2050, in order to achieve technological sovereignty and ensure technological leadership, it is proposed to form an ecosystem that will allow developing economic incentives for investment in technology and equipment while removing administrative barriers, and create a domestic pool of serial technologies for the fuel and energy complex. Also key elements are the digital transformation of the industry, attracting and retaining qualified personnel, ensuring professional development of personnel," said Alexander Novak.

Answering a question about the future of oil and gas production over the next 20-30 years, he said that global demand for oil is expected to grow at least until 2035 amid the growing number of cars in the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America and Africa. “The key factors in the dynamics of demand will be an increase in transportation and a change in the structure of the vehicle fleet towards electric transport and increased efficiency of internal combustion engines. A significant increase in demand will be observed in petrochemistry. At the same time, competition in the global oil market will increase. As a result, although the share of oil in the global energy balance will decrease from 37 to 33% by 2050, the volume of demand for oil in absolute figures will increase from 102 to 114 million barrels per day,” the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized.

Alexander Novak awarded the representatives of the Tatneft team with the Order "For Valiant Labor" for their great contribution to the development of the oil and gas industry and their labor successes. The Deputy Prime Minister thanked the veterans and employees of the company for their effective work for the benefit of the country's fuel and energy complex.

The Deputy Prime Minister held a working meeting with the Head of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov. The parties discussed the socio-economic development of the republic, as well as updating the conditions for the modernization of the Naberezhnye Chelny TPP. The implementation of the project is an effective solution for covering the growing demand for electricity and ensuring reliable heat supply to a city with a population of over 500 thousand people.

The Deputy Prime Minister took part in the opening ceremony of the XI Republican Open Field Olympiad of Young Geologists, which is held for schoolchildren from Russian regions and friendly countries. "The children's geological movement, which has existed in Tatarstan for over 40 years, is an example of how to effectively contribute to the achievement of national goals at the regional level, to prepare personnel for the country's economy from the school bench. The movement covers about 1.5 thousand children. I am sure that similar projects should be implemented in other regions. Such initiatives are in line with the national goal of the President to realize the potential of each person, develop their talents, and educate a patriotic and socially responsible person," said Alexander Novak.

During the trip, the Deputy Prime Minister visited Tatneft's Taneko oil refining complex, familiarized himself with its operations, and launched the second hydrocracking unit.

"With the launch of the new unit, the Tatneft Taneko oil refining complex will become the only refinery in Russia that has two hydrocracking units in its configuration. This will further increase the depth of raw material processing and the volume of production of the most valuable oil products, including high-quality Euro-6 fuels. It is important that domestic equipment and Russian catalysts were used as much as possible during the project's implementation," emphasized Alexander Novak.

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The SCO countries agreed to cooperate in the creative economy.

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The meeting of the Commission of Senior Officials of the Ministries and Departments of the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) responsible for foreign economic and foreign trade activities took place on July 10. The event was held under the auspices of Russia's chairmanship of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of the SCO Member States. The meeting was attended by Nikita Kondratyev, Director of the Department of Multilateral Economic Cooperation and Special Projects.

"For Russia, as well as for other SCO countries, the development of a creative economy is not just a strategic choice, but a natural path. Our countries have a rich cultural heritage, the necessary educational base and technologies, and most importantly, significant human capital," said Nikita Kondratyev.

During the event, the Russian side presented its partners with initiatives to develop the creative economy within the SCO. The meeting participants outlined further steps to implement targeted support measures for businesses engaged in creative industries, stimulate the implementation of joint projects for the production of animation content, and develop advanced digital solutions, video games, and software.

"Russian creative industries are ready to enter friendly foreign markets. We have already formed a pool of Russian creative products and technological solutions aimed at export to the SCO countries. As a result of the chairmanship, we plan to present to partners the trade and investment potential of domestic creativity and create a basis for scaling our creative industries to the markets of the SCO countries," added Nikita Kondratyev.

In the context of the “SCO Year of Sustainable Development,” the Russian side put forward an initiative to create the SCO Sustainable Development Council, a specialized platform for dialogue between business and academic circles.

"Today, business is the most important partner in solving sustainable development problems. Russian companies are actively implementing ESG strategies, investing in green technologies, and forming new models of responsible business management. We are ready to share best practices in developing effective management tools to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs), attracting sustainable financing, and improving mechanisms for monitoring the achievement of goals at the enterprise level," said Nikita Kondratyev.

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Dmitry Patrushev: Russia is ready to develop mutual cooperation with Moldova in the sphere of agro-industrial complex

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Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev met with the leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova Igor Dodon, the chairperson of the Heart of Moldova party Irina Vlah and the head of the Future of Moldova party Vasile Tarlev. They discussed cooperation between the two countries in the agro-industrial complex.

"The Russian Federation and the Republic of Moldova have centuries-old relations that have survived a number of historical eras. Our bilateral ties have been strengthened thanks to a common culture. This applies to similar moral and ethical values, and belonging to the Orthodox world. Today, the relations between our countries are going through a difficult period. However, despite this, we have managed to build direct channels of interaction. Russia aims to maintain and develop dialogue with all constructive forces in Moldova that advocate for strengthening Moldovan statehood, the country's sovereignty and preserving its neutral status. Russia is ready for dialogue, including the resumption of work through the intergovernmental commission," said Dmitry Patrushev.

The Deputy Prime Minister reported that last year in the agro-industrial complex, which is traditionally one of the key areas of cooperation between the two countries, the volume of mutual trade fell by another 20%. And deliveries to Russia also decreased by almost a third.

Dmitry Patrushev emphasized that Russia is ready to develop mutual cooperation, including in terms of trade in agricultural products and supplies of mineral fertilizers.

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Dmitry Patrushev: Agricultural lands will be protected from unjustified withdrawal from circulation

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Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev held a meeting of the Government Commission on Agro-Industrial, Fishing Complexes and Sustainable Development of Rural Territories. The meeting was attended by the management of relevant departments and companies. The main topic was measures aimed at increasing the efficiency of agricultural production.

Dmitry Patrushev noted that in the first months of this year, agricultural production grew by 1.5% compared to the same period in 2024. To support the agro-industrial and fisheries complexes, as well as the development of rural areas, the Government has already allocated more than 560 billion rubles in 2025.

"Right now, one of the most important stages of the year for the industry is the harvesting campaign. Work has started in 22 regions. The Russian Ministry of Agriculture maintains its forecast expectations for the main crops, including plans to harvest about 135 million tons of grain," the Deputy Prime Minister said.

Dmitry Patrushev emphasized that the development of agricultural production relies largely on the rational use of land resources. For this purpose, the relevant mechanisms are systematically improved.

"A separate state program of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia is aimed at involving agricultural lands into circulation and increasing their fertility. Thanks to its activities, more than 2 million hectares have been brought into use in three years. Together with the Federal Assembly, we are developing the regulatory framework. Since 2022, six federal laws have been adopted for this purpose. This year, the so-called law on two keys was approved, which assumes that the opinion of the Ministry of Agriculture is taken into account when making decisions on transferring agricultural lands to other categories. The inclusion of agricultural lands in the boundaries of populated areas must also be agreed upon with the Ministry of Agriculture. Thus, the most valuable lands will be protected from unjustified disposal," said Dmitry Patrushev.

The law will come into force in March 2026. The Deputy Prime Minister instructed the Ministry of Agriculture to promptly complete the preparation of legal acts for its implementation.

In crop production, an important tool for increasing efficiency is the use of modern agricultural machinery. The meeting discussed the implementation of the preferential leasing program. Dmitry Patrushev noted that this is one of the most popular support measures, allowing the fleet to be updated.

In 2024, Rosagroleasing delivered almost 19 thousand units of agricultural machinery and equipment to farmers – this is a record since the launch of the instrument in 2019. This year, the volume of subsidies for preferential leasing has increased by more than 40%.

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Marat Khusnullin: More than 2.2 thousand facilities have been commissioned in Russia under housing and utilities modernization programs

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In the regions of the country, the modernization of public utility infrastructure continues under programs involving preferential loans from the National Welfare Fund and subsidies from the federal budget. The Ministry of Construction is the curator of these programs, and the Territorial Development Fund is the operator.

"In total, 2,225 housing and communal services facilities have been commissioned in the regions under these programs since 2022. This is 3.4 thousand km of utility networks and 273 area facilities – treatment facilities, boiler houses, central heating stations, etc. This year, the federal project "Modernization of Utilities Infrastructure" was launched as part of the national project "Infrastructure for Life". It is important for the regions to increase the pace of implementation of all planned measures to modernize the housing and communal services. According to the President's instructions, 4.5 billion rubles are planned to be allocated for these purposes by 2030. And here the task is to increase extra-budgetary financing – this is clearly stated in the memorandums signed by the regions with the Ministry of Construction. All these measures are aimed at solving existing problems in the industry and providing Russians with high-quality utilities," said Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.

According to the FRT programs, the largest number of works were carried out in the heat supply sector – 1.4 thousand km of heat networks and 230 area facilities were commissioned. In second place are works on modernization of the water supply sector. In total, 1.7 thousand km of water supply networks were updated in the regions and 15 area facilities were commissioned. In addition, work was carried out to modernize 351 km of water drainage networks and 28 facilities in this sector.

"In the first half of 2025, 10 industrial facilities were commissioned in the regions. For example, treatment facilities were commissioned in the Sverdlovsk Region, four boiler houses were built in the Perm Region, and one each in Yakutia and the Kamchatka Region. Heat supply sources were also reconstructed in the Nizhny Novgorod and Volgograd Regions. In addition, 38.5 km of utility networks were updated. As a result, the quality of services has improved for thousands of Russians. Work on housing and communal services facilities continues," said Vasily Kupyzin, General Director of the Territorial Development Fund.

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