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On November 14, 2025, Sociologist's Day, VTsIOM will hold its sixth annual social dictation—a large-scale educational event bringing together thousands of participants across the country.

The State University of Management will soon become one of the venues for the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) partnership marathon. Everyone is invited—students, faculty, staff, and anyone interested in society, science, and contemporary research.

The dictation includes 25 questions on sociology and social analysis, developed by VTsIOM analysts. Anyone can submit their own version of a question and become a co-author of the test by emailing their idea to dictant@wciom.com.

You can complete the tasks online on November 14 from 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM Moscow time on the event's official portal. You can participate from any device; pre-registration and approximately 30 minutes of free time are required.

However, everyone who completes all the tasks will receive a personalized certificate and, most importantly, new knowledge—the correct answers and expert commentary will be published on November 15th. Overall, it's worth testing how well you know the society you live in!

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A three-day advanced training program, "Environmental Protection Regulation. Circular Economy," has concluded at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University's Institute of Civil Engineering. The program was developed by the Center for Continuing Professional Programs at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Institute of Civil Engineering and the Efir Academy, part of the Rusnano Group.

Representatives from Rosprirodnadzor departments, leading testing centers in ecology and environmental protection, and faculty and students from the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University's Civil Engineering Institute participated in the intensive educational program. The Rusnano Group presented the Efir JSC technology bank.

At the opening of the program, Dmitry Tikhonov, Vice-Rector for Continuing and Pre-University Education at SPbPU, and Ivan Ozhgikhin, General Director of the Efir Academy, addressed the participants with welcoming remarks. Participants were also greeted by Svetlana Filatova, Director of the Efir Center (STC Pravo), Vladimir Chernyshev, Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage, and Mikhail Kozminykh, Head of the Northwestern Interregional Department of Rosprirodnadzor.

The course program covered key areas of modern environmental regulation: new legislative initiatives in environmental protection, carbon regulation and industrial environmental control, environmental management, and air and land risk assessment. The course included practical sessions during which participants developed a gas purification unit data sheet, examined an example of using life cycle assessment to optimize a product's carbon footprint, analyzed common errors in developing an environmental impact assessment program and report, and learned about the operation of polymer waste recycling units (using JSC Efir as an example).

Lectures and practical classes were given by representatives of the central office of Rosprirodnadzor, leading experts from federal executive bodies, expert practitioners from the Efir Center and the Efir Academy, as well as Professor Natalia Politaeva and Associate Professor Alexander Chusov from the Civil Engineering Institute.

On the third day of the training, Alexander Chusov and Natalia Politaeva spoke to the audience about assessment methodology, the significance and impact of environmental risks, air and water purification technologies, the economic justification for investments in eco-technologies, and the company's environmental policy. Particular attention was paid to a practical session dedicated to analyzing a case study of using life cycle assessment to optimize a product's carbon footprint. At the Civil Engineering Institute, the participants visited the industrial ecology laboratory, the water purification laboratory, and the environmental monitoring laboratory, where Natalia Politaeva, Alexander Chusov, as well as Maria Andrianova, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Hydraulic and Power Engineering, and Viktor Chechevichkin, Lead Engineer, presented the guests with modern equipment and methods for analyzing water environmental parameters.

The final stage of the program was the final testing, based on the results of which participants received certificates of advanced training.

"Today, effective environmental management is becoming key to the development of both individual companies and the country as a whole. Modern environmental management is not simply compliance with standards and regulations, but a systematic approach to environmental conservation, the rational use of resources, and the implementation of innovation," says Ivan Ozhgikhin, Head of Environmental Management at Rusnano Group.

"Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University implements a comprehensive approach to ecology and environmental protection: in addition to specialized training for specialists, we include environmental competence as a mandatory element in our educational programs for all students. For example, the Civil Engineering Institute is already implementing a program of specialized Rosprirodnadzor classes at St. Petersburg schools, and there are also student environmental associations. An important focus of our continuing professional education programs has become the involvement of industrial partners—this allows us to provide students with relevant knowledge and practical experience from leading industry experts," noted Dmitry Tikhonov, Vice-Rector for Continuing and Pre-University Education at SPbPU.

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Liu Wei, Secretary General of the Institute of Russia at Tsinghua University, paid a working visit to Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. Tsinghua University is a leading Chinese university and a long-standing strategic partner of SPbPU. The universities host numerous events annually, and our cooperation spans a wide range of areas.

The visit became especially symbolic because the day before Liu Wei, a graduate of SPbPU, was awarded the honorary title of Ambassador of Russian EducationPolytechnic University Rector Andrey Rudskoy congratulated his Chinese colleague on her new status. Representatives of the two leading technical universities gathered for a working meeting to discuss the prospects for strategic development of their partnership in a warm atmosphere. The parties agreed to update the strategic partnership agreement concluded in 2014 to give new impetus to their collaboration. The discussion focused on specific areas of collaboration—from energy, biomedicine, and urban studies to the development of joint educational programs and corporate training programs.

Liu Wei also visited the laboratories of the Higher School of Cyber-Physical Systems Control and met with Chinese graduate students, who shared their impressions of studying at SPbPU.

Liu Wei expressed her deep gratitude for the hospitality and shared her impressions: "This visit was extremely fulfilling and productive. My title as Education Ambassador is a great honor and responsibility. I leave with the firm conviction that our universities must take cooperation to a qualitatively new level. I am confident that the updated strategic agreement will open a new chapter in the relationship between our universities."

Dmitry Arsenyev, SPbPU Vice-Rector for International Affairs, emphasized: "We are honored to welcome Liu Wei to the Polytechnic University, and it is especially valuable that she will now represent the interests of Russian education in China in the honorary capacity of Ambassador. I am confident that her enthusiasm and deep understanding of both sides will help us significantly intensify our joint projects across a wide range of promising areas."

The visit laid a solid foundation for the further expansion of long-standing fruitful cooperation, outlining clear contours of joint work in the near future.

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On October 29, 2025, the Lviv Forum, organized by the Institute of Economics and Finance of the State University of Management, opened at the State University of Management. The forum was dedicated to the scientific legacy of the legendary Russian economist, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dmitry Semenovich Lvov, a graduate of the Sergo Ordzhonikidze Moscow Engineering and Economics Institute (now the State University of Management).

The plenary session of the Lviv Forum was opened by the event's moderator, Galina Sorokina, Director of the Institute of Economics and Finance at the State University of Management, and Doctor of Economics. Sorokina noted the growing interest in studying economic theory and the works of Academician Lvov. The Atrium of our business center, where the forum was held, was truly packed.

Welcoming the participants, SUMU Vice-Rector, Doctor of Technical and Pedagogical Sciences, Professor Maria Karelina drew attention to the extensive work of our university's economic theorists and encouraged students to engage in economics on a regular basis.

Maria Yuryevna thanked for the support the student Dmitry Semenovich Lvov, the director of the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute (CEMI RAS), corresponding member of the RAS Albert Bakhtizin and corresponding member of the RAS, head of the department of “Institutional Economics” of the State University Georgy Kleiner, who conducts a lot of scientific work and passes on his knowledge to young specialists. “We must be leaders in economic science – and we have everything for this,” concluded Maria Yuryevna and, wishing the participants fruitful work, gave the floor to Albert Bakhtizin, who presented the audience with the fundamental theses of the socio-economic doctrine formed by Academician Dmitry Lvov. Back in the early 2000s, the academician drew attention to alarming demographic symptoms, speaking about the problem of excess mortality in our country’s population: “Within the framework of the social doctrine, Dmitry Semyonovich outlined the social face of Russian excess mortality – young, male, Russian,” quoted academician Bakhtizin. — As for the forecast of the number of Russians, taking into account different birth rates and migration scenarios, our calculations showed: the current trend will lead to an increase in the number of migrants of the first and subsequent waves by the end of the century to 40% of the total population, which will continue to decline. In any case, the efforts of government authorities should be aimed not only at solving problems associated with increasing the birth rate and reducing mortality, but largely at preserving the health of indigenous people and their level of development.”

Georgy Kleiner spoke about the invaluable importance of Academician Lvov's fundamental works on production efficiency, the management of scientific and technological progress, and the equitable distribution of income in the development of a unified economic theory. In conclusion, Georgy Borisovich noted that Dmitry Semenovich Lvov's legacy continues to have a profound influence on the development of Russian economic thought and proposed that the SUM leadership initiate the publication of his collected works.

Sergey Glazyev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Head of the Department of Economic Policy and Economic Measurements at the State University of Management, noted that "Dmitry Semenovich Lvov's works remain relevant. I wouldn't say he was ahead of his time. On the contrary, if these recommendations, related to the development of scientific and technological progress and the stabilization of our economy, had been implemented 20-30 years ago, even in the medium term, they would have created new opportunities for the country's development."

Following the plenary session, the forum continued with panels and roundtable discussions. These included discussions on Russia's economic development strategy, the institutional architecture of a multipolar world, economic security tools for businesses, the development of foreign economic relations, and finance in the platform economy. Topical issues in modern economic science, technological sovereignty, and the role of moral guidelines in shaping a new development paradigm were also discussed.

It should be noted that the Lviv Forum at the State University of Management remains not only a tribute to the memory of an outstanding scholar whose ideas on fair and socially oriented economic management at the level of states and continents remain relevant today, but also a platform for the exchange of fresh scientific ideas and expert discussions, which, as Academician Kleiner said, reflect the light of the future of economic theory.

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