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As part of the third day of the V Congress of Young Scientists, researchers from the State University of Management attended the session "Games as a Tool for Engineering Creativity: From the Digital World to Real Technologies."

Among the session's speakers was Alexander Vedekhin, Deputy Director of the Department of State Youth Policy and Educational Activities at the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and Administrator of the federal project "Personnel for Space." He focused on the use of gamification in space engineering as a new and unique area of technological development.

During the dialogue, Vladimir Kutkov, a young scientist from the State University of Management, asked Alexander Yuryevich about the prospects for the emergence of new professions and specialties at the intersection of the gaming industry and space engineering, with the potential to transform the design and testing of aircraft, as technology advances. Alexander Vedekhin noted that the emergence of such interdisciplinary roles is a natural process. He emphasized that their emergence and development directly depend on the activity of young specialists and scientists, whose research and projects are already laying the foundation for future transformations in the space industry.

Other speakers at the session included Pavel Orekhov, Director of the Youth Community Development Division at the Agency for Strategic Initiatives for the Promotion of New Projects (ASI); Dmitry Smith, President of the Russian Cybersport Federation; Olga Zaborskaya, Head of the Department of Industries and Project Competencies at OANO SKOLKA; and Daniela Lebedeva, a resident of the SPIEF Academy. Alexey Fedoseyev, President of the Association of Participants of Technology Circles, moderated the session.

Participants discussed how game mechanics and virtual environments can transform approaches to design and solving complex engineering problems. Today, video games, simulators, and VR/AR are becoming platforms for developing engineering competencies, motivating young people to embrace technological creativity, and opening up new approaches to training future specialists. The speakers noted that the digital and physical worlds are becoming virtually inseparable, offering broad opportunities for research and the practical implementation of gamification tools in engineering projects and initiatives.

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On November 27, the National University of Management participated in the scientific seminar "Opening a New Chapter in Chinese-Russian Cooperation, Jointly Putting Forward a New Vision of Global Governance" at the Embassy of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Russia.

The meeting was opened by Zhang Hanhui, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Russian Federation, and Andrey Denisov, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs. Kirill Babaev, Director of the Institute of China and Modern Asia at the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Zhang Liqun, Chairman of the Union of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Russia, also addressed the seminar participants. Viktor Larin, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, also joined the meeting online from Vladivostok.

The first managerial representative at this prestigious forum was Fanis Sharipov, director of the Center for Socio-Economic and Political Research.

"Today, as we watch the world shake under the powerful waves of time at the junction of the old and new eras, the words of the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci come to mind, perfectly summing up what is happening: 'The old world is dying, and the new one is struggling to be born.' In this context, the Global Governance Initiative proposal, which Chinese President Xi Jinping put forward at the SCO Plus meeting in Tianjin on September 1, 2025, has significant historical and practical significance. This year is special—the 80th anniversary of Victory Day and the 80th anniversary of the UN. The initiative quickly gained the support of more than 140 states and international organizations. Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first to respond and express his support," Fanis Falikhovich recalled.

The seminar was attended by the Plenipotentiary Minister of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Russian Federation, representatives of the State Duma and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Military Sciences, Moscow State University, National Research University, the Higher School of Economics, the Russian State Social University, the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Free Economic Society, IMEMO RAS, the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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On November 28, 1915, a journalist and playwright was born in Petrograd, whose fate would be determined by the Great Patriotic War. His parents named the boy Kirill, but the world came to know him as Konstantin. Simonov chose this name not as a literary pseudonym, but because of his childhood lisp: he had trouble pronouncing the "r" and "l" sounds and was shy.

War as a vocation

Simonov's father, a major general, went missing in action during World War I. The future classic of Soviet literature was raised by his stepfather, Alexander Grigoryevich Ivanishev, a former colonel in the Tsarist army who became a tactics instructor after the Revolution. He raised Konstantin with strict discipline and taught him not so much to fight as to serve faithfully and truly—to the Fatherland, the people, and the woman he loved.

Simonov spent his youth at the machine tool: first as a lathe operator at an aircraft factory, then in the machine shops of Mezhrabpomfilm. In 1934, excerpts from his poem "Belomorkanal"—his first attempt at writing, naive and opportunistic—appeared in the collection "Review of Forces." Five years later, he became a member of the Writers' Union, author of poems about Suvorov and the Battle on the Ice, and then went as a war correspondent to Khalkhin Gol. It was there, in the dusty Mongolian steppes, that the poet realized that the battlefield was his element.

A look from the inside

Konstantin Mikhailovich was at the front from the first day of the war, armed with a notebook, a camera, and a machine gun. He wrote from the trenches, and the map of the fighting until victory became his personal geography: from Odessa to Berlin, from Murmansk to Bucharest, from Stalingrad to Prague. He traversed it as a participant, and everything he saw, heard, and felt he transformed into heartfelt lines. Simonov never towered over the soldiers or harangued them from the podium—he was one of them. Therefore, "Wait for Me" became more than just a poem, but a hymn of hope for millions. Soldiers copied it, kept it in their tunic pockets, read it before attacks and at the bedsides of the wounded. In simple words, he spoke of fear, pain, and the desire to live—and for this honesty, he was loved.

The poem even made its way behind the front lines, being found in the uniforms of German soldiers. In 1942, it was translated into German and published in the anti-fascist publication "Young Austria." In 1943, the Berlin newspaper "Zarya," published by the Wehrmacht's Eastern Propaganda Department, reprinted the poem with the author's name.

But Simonov is more than just a lyricist; he is a chronicler of an era. His trilogy, "The Living and the Dead," conveys not the pathos of victory, but the truth of defeat, chaos, fear, and the difficult acquisition of resilience. His plays, "Russian People" and "A Guy from Our Town," offer not idealization, but human dignity in hellish conditions. His diaries reveal an internal dialogue with himself, his conscience, and the era.

Peace was only a dream

Konstantin Mikhailovich's personal life was not a peaceful one. His love for the legendary film actress Valentina Serova was intense and passionate: "Wait for Me" was written for her, but, alas, their marriage fell apart. He married several times, adopted children, and always remained a noble and devoted father.

After the war, Konstantin Simonov, winner of six Stalin Prizes and a Hero of Socialist Labor, became editor-in-chief of Novy Mir, secretary of the Writers' Union, and a deputy of the Supreme Soviet. He was, as they say, part of the system, which required compromise. He had to participate in campaigns against "cosmopolitans" and reject Doctor Zhivago. But later, as he lay dying, he wrote "Through the Eyes of a Man of My Generation"—an honest confession about the controversial policies and mistakes of Joseph Stalin.

The writer passed away on August 28, 1979, requesting to be buried at Buinichi Field near Mogilev, where he had escaped encirclement during the summer of the first year of the war. On this field stands the Simonovsky Stone—a red granite boulder bearing the inscriptions: "Konstantin Simonov. 1915–1979" and "…He remembered this 1941 battlefield all his life and asked that his ashes be scattered here."

Today, on the 110th anniversary of his birth, we once again read "Wait for Me" as a symbol of love and hope. Because Konstantin Simonov doesn't teach us how to fight. He reminds us: a person is a person first and foremost. Even in war, and especially in war. And therefore, his lines are not a relic, but a mirror. A mirror for a hero.

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