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

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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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01.Oct.2025 Norilsk Nickel summed up the results of a decade of implementing social programs, awarding regional leaders and expressing gratitude to partners in the protected environment

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Source: Preserved Embassy Foundation

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The Zapovednoye Posledstvo Foundation participated in this very significant celebration. It was dedicated to the tenth anniversary of Norilsk Nickel's social capital development program, which, since 2025, will be called "People of the Territory" and combines two programs: "Kindness Factory" and "World of New Opportunities."

Why is this so important and significant for us?!

For 10 years, we have been an expert partner of the environmental volunteer marathon "Poneslos" and other events.

Things are made clear from a distance! We started counting the benefits volunteers have brought to the protected areas over this time, and we were simply amazed:

– built more than 10 km of nature trails, including crossings over the channels of the Torey Lakes and observation platforms of the Daursky Nature Reserve,

– developed and installed an interactive site called “Reindeer Trail” in the Lapland Nature Reserve,

– equipped rest areas on the “Deaf Dam” trail in the Lapland Nature Reserve and the route to Varlama Island in the Pasvik Nature Reserve,

– built in several stages the “Climatic Route in the Krasnoyarsk Pillars National Park”, where more than 1.5 million people pass through each year,

– created an educational lesson “7 Wonders of the Arctic,” which was attended by more than 6 thousand schoolchildren,

– developed a set of original games aimed at environmental education of children, youth and adults, which was rated by more than 10,000 players,

and much more!

And of course, we were thrilled to attend the immersive performance—the presentation of the new program and the celebration dedicated to the tenth anniversary. It was a joy to see those with whom we share our good deeds for the benefit of nature! And it was also a pleasure to receive an award for our collaboration.

We say "Thank you" to our partners, and to all the company's volunteers and friends. May you have many new victories, projects, and accomplishments ahead, benefiting yourselves and the environment!

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01.10.2025 Norilsk Nickel summed up the results of a decade of implementing social programs, awarding regional leaders and expressing gratitude to partners in the protected environment

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Source: Preserved Embassy Foundation

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The Zapovednoye Polostvo Foundation participated in this very significant celebration. It was dedicated to the tenth anniversary of Norilsk Nickel's social capital development program, which, since 2025, will be called "People of the Territory" and combines two programs: "Kindness Factory" and "World of New Opportunities."

Why is this so important and significant for us?!

For 10 years now, we have been an expert partner of the environmental volunteer marathon "Poneslos" and other events.

Things are made clear from a distance! We started counting the benefits volunteers have brought to the protected areas over this time, and we were simply amazed:

– built more than 10 km of nature trails, including crossings over the channels of the Torey Lakes and observation platforms of the Daursky Nature Reserve,

– developed and installed an interactive site called “Reindeer Trail” in the Lapland Nature Reserve,

– equipped rest areas on the “Deaf Dam” trail in the Lapland Nature Reserve and the route to Varlama Island in the Pasvik Nature Reserve,

– built in several stages the “Climatic Route in the Krasnoyarsk Pillars National Park”, where more than 1.5 million people pass through each year,

– created an educational lesson “7 Wonders of the Arctic,” which was attended by more than 6 thousand schoolchildren,

– developed a set of original games aimed at environmental education of children, youth and adults, which was rated by more than 10,000 players,

and much more!

And of course, we were thrilled to attend the immersive performance—the presentation of the new program and the celebration dedicated to the tenth anniversary. It was a joy to see those with whom we work together to benefit nature! And it was also a pleasure to receive an award for our collaboration.

We say "Thank you" to our partners, and to all the company's volunteers and friends. May you have many new victories, projects, and accomplishments ahead, benefiting yourselves and the environment!

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Russia's GDP growth in the first half of the year was 1.2 percent, according to Rosstat.

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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News

Moscow, October 2 (Xinhua) — Russia's GDP in the first half of 2025 amounted to 97 trillion 263.6 billion rubles, with GDP growth during this period at 1.2 percent. This was reported by TASS on Wednesday, citing Rosstat's first GDP estimate.

According to Rosstat's preliminary estimate, GDP growth in the second quarter of 2025 was 1.1 percent, after 1.4 percent in the first quarter.

According to the first estimate by Rosstat, Russia's GDP for the period from April to June 2025 amounted to 49 trillion 516.8 billion rubles. –0–

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Xi Jinping congratulated Tianjin University on the 130th anniversary of its founding /detailed version-1/

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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News

BEIJING, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) — Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), has congratulated the faculty, students, staff, and alumni of Tianjin University on the 130th anniversary of its founding.

In his reply letter dated Tuesday, Xi Jinping called on the university's faculty and students to focus on the country's most important strategic needs from a new starting point.

He expressed hope that they would deepen reforms in the teaching and research fields, strengthen fundamental research and the development of key core technologies.

Xi Jinping also called on them to improve the quality of personnel training, better serve socio-economic development, and make new contributions to building China into a powerhouse in education, science and technology, as well as promoting China's modernization.

Founded in 1895 as Beiyang University, Tianjin University is China's first modern university. It received its current name in 1951.

Faculty and students at Tianjin University recently wrote a letter to Xi Jinping expressing their determination to firmly pursue the path of strengthening their own capabilities in science, technology, and human resource development. -0-

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Rosneft produced its 150 millionth ton of oil at the Uvat project.

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The cumulative oil production of RN-Uvatneftegaz (part of the Rosneft oil production complex) has reached 150 million tonnes since the start of production at the Uvat project fields in 2007. This achievement was made possible by well construction, the commissioning of new assets, and the use of modern drilling and oil production technologies.

This year, the company commissioned 99 new wells. Construction of high-tech wells, primarily horizontal, using hydraulic fracturing is currently ongoing. In the first eight months of 2025, RN-Uvatneftegaz's oil production increased by 55,000 tons compared to the same period in 2024.

Today, the Uvat project operates three oil production hubs—Ust-Tegussky, Protozanovsky, and Tyamkinsky—with smaller satellite fields adjacent. Sharing the hubs' infrastructure creates synergies and accelerates the commissioning of new fields. The major fields are equipped with two central oil gathering stations, two oil pumping stations, and five chemical analysis testing laboratories.

The development of field infrastructure is contributing to the growth of production indicators. Gas production and power generation facilities were commissioned in 2025. New 110 and 35 kV substations were launched, providing RN-Uvatneftegaz with a reliable power supply to increase drilling volumes and operate new wells. The substations are equipped with modern Russian-made power and switching equipment, ensuring a high degree of automation. All equipment is adapted for uninterrupted operation in the northern climate.

The company continues geological exploration and expanding its resource base. In 2025, RN-Uvatneftegaz geologists discovered the Yuzhno-Keumskoye field. This new asset will play a key role in the further development of the entire project and the long-term maintenance of the company's current oil production levels.

The implementation of digital tools is contributing to the improvement of RN-Uvatneftegaz's key operational indicators and productivity. The company uses the Sfera 3D information technology system. Digitalization enables maximum efficiency across the entire production chain—from well construction to hydrocarbon transportation—as well as real-time management of equipment operating modes and the selection of optimal engineering solutions.

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RN-Uvatneftegaz is exploring and developing a group of fields across 19 licensed areas with a total area of over 25,000 square kilometers, located in the Uvatsky District of the Tyumen Region.

RN-Uvatneftegaz is one of the largest subsoil users, taxpayers, and employers in the southern Tyumen region. It accounts for over 80% of the region's oil production.

Department of Information and Advertising of PJSC NK Rosneft October 2, 2025

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