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Source: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University –
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The Academic Council of SPbPU adopted the Regulation on the personalized scholarships of the Physics and Mechanics Institute. Starting from the 2025/2026 academic year, the best Physics and Mechanics Master's students will start receiving personalized scholarships based on the results of the competition, named after outstanding professors who worked at the Physics and Mechanics Faculty of the Polytechnic University. The scholarships will be paid from the income from the management of the target capital "Development of scientific, educational, youth and educational projects of Physics and Mechanics".
"Last year, thanks to the activity of graduates and employees, a target capital was formed at PhysMech," said Nikolai Ivanov, Acting Director of the Physics and Mechanics Institute. "It is gratifying that, by decision of the Institute's Academic Council, the first project to which the income from the target capital will be directed is personal scholarships for master's students. The scholarships will allow us to reward the brightest students who are starting their path in science. Involvement in scientific research is one of the cornerstones of the "PhysMech system," created by outstanding scientists and organizers of higher education, after whom the scholarships are named."
A total of five scholarships have been established – one for students in each of the five Master's degree programs.
Students of the master's program in the field of "Mechanics and Mathematical Modeling" will be awarded a scholarship named after Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshchersky.
I. V. Meshchersky (1859–1935) was a Russian scientist and mechanic, the founder of the mechanics of variable mass systems. When the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute opened, he was invited to the position of professor of the theoretical mechanics department and played a decisive role in the development of this discipline. It was Ivan Meshchersky’s lecture on theoretical mechanics for students of all technical departments that became the first lecture given at the newly opened Polytechnic Institute. Meshchersky was one of those scientists who sought to bring the teaching of mechanics closer to the needs of engineering practice; he created the classic “Collection of Problems in Theoretical Mechanics” and introduced practical classes for students to solve problems. In 1907–1908, he served as director of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute.
Students of the Master's program in the field of "Applied Mathematics and Physics" will be awarded a scholarship named after Lev Gerasimovich Loitsyansky.
L. G. Loitsyansky (1900–1991) was a Soviet scientist and mechanic, the founder and first head of the Department of Hydroaerodynamics at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics (1935–1975), and a leading specialist in boundary layer and turbulence theory. He began his teaching career in 1922 as an assistant to Professor A. A. Friedman at the Department of Theoretical Mechanics. L. G. Loitsyansky is the author of fundamental monographs and textbooks on hydrogasdynamics and theoretical mechanics. L. G. Loitsyansky’s textbook “Mechanics of Liquids and Gases” is still a reference book for both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as specialists in hydroaerodynamics. The scientific school of physical mechanics of liquids and gases created by Lev Gerasimovich is one of the leading schools in the country and is supported and developed at SPbPU by his students and the students of his students.
Master's students in the Applied Mechanics program will be awarded a scholarship named after Anatoly Isakovich Lurye.
A. I. Lurye (1901–1980) was a Soviet scientist and mechanic, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and the author of fundamental works on theoretical and analytical mechanics, oscillation theory, operational calculus and automatic control theory, shell theory, and linear and nonlinear elasticity theory. The textbook on theoretical mechanics, which he co-authored with his colleague and friend L. G. Loitsyansky, was used by more than one generation of students. From 1944 to 1977, A. I. Lurye headed the Department of Dynamics and Strength of Machines at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics (since 1960, the Department of Mechanics and Control Processes). A unique scientific team was formed around Anatoly Isakovich, which is still commonly called the “Lurye school”. The works of A. I. Lurye’s students occupy a significant place in Russian mechanics and are known throughout the world.
Master's students majoring in Physics will be awarded a scholarship named after Boris Pavlovich Konstantinov.
B. P. Konstantinov (1910–1969) was a Soviet physicist and academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences. His scientific interests were extremely broad: he published works on acoustics, physical chemistry, isotope physics, plasma physics and the problem of controlled thermonuclear fusion, and astrophysics. As head of a laboratory at the Physicotechnical Institute (now named after A. F. Ioffe), from 1947 Boris Pavlovich worked part-time at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, headed the department of technical physics, and then organized several departments at the FMP: experimental nuclear physics, isotope physics, and biophysics. On his initiative, a specialization in astrophysics was opened at the LPI. B. P. Konstantinov was the director of the A. F. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute (1957–1967) and dean of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics (1964–1966).
Students of the Master's program in the field of "Applied Mathematics and Computer Science" will be awarded a scholarship named after Vladimir Aleksandrovich Troitsky.
V. A. Troitsky (1927–2004) was a graduate of Anatoly Isakovich Lurye's school, the organizer and first head of the Department of Computational Mathematics of the Faculty of Physics and Mechanics (in 1989 the department was named Applied Mathematics), and the Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Mechanics (1966–1973). V. A. Troitsky studied the theory of optimal processes, with an emphasis on the development and application of analytical and numerical methods for solving problems of optimizing mechanical systems. Under the supervision of Professor Troitsky, the department conducted scientific research in the field of developing numerical methods for solving various problems in mechanics.
Personal scholarships of PhysMech will be awarded each semester on a competitive basis to master's students who have demonstrated high achievements in academic and research activities. The scholarship amount in the 2025/2026 academic year will be 6,000 rubles per month. The competition will be held in the first ten days of September. For information on the competitive selection procedure, please contact the heads of educational programs.
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