Open Classes at StuDos: Showcase Your Talents

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On October 6 and October 13, the State University of Management will host the first open vocal and dance classes of the creative group "StuDos."

This is a great opportunity for everyone to demonstrate their abilities and become part of a friendly creative family.

A team of professional teachers and experienced vocalists, choreographers, and dancers will help you overcome your fear of public speaking and teach you the basics of your craft.

We invite everyone to show off their vocal talents on October 6th at 7:00 PM in auditorium A-124 (GUU Administrative Building, 1st floor). Pre-registration is required. Don't forget to prepare a song and backing track.

Open dance classes will take place on October 13th at 7:00 PM on the dance floor of the State University of Management (TsUVP building, 1st floor). Registration is required via the link. Don't forget to bring comfortable clothes and shoes.

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We invite graduate students to the student initiation ceremony.

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Dear State University of Management Master's students of 2025, very soon, on October 1st, our university will open its doors to you. This date will be the starting point for your rapid professional growth and the discovery of new horizons.

The University has prepared a special meeting for you.

We meet on October 1st at 5:30 pm in the Assembly Hall of the State University of Management.

Program of events: 17:30–18:00 — gathering of first-year students in the Assembly Hall; 18:00–18:50 — ceremonial “Initiation into students”; 18:50–22:00 — classes according to the schedule.

On this day, you'll get to know the university and immerse yourself in a festive atmosphere before joining us on a grand journey into the world of the GUU Master's program!

Important! Don't forget to bring your passport to enter the university grounds! Entry will be through Checkpoint #4.

We attach a map of the GUU territory; the route from the metro to the required checkpoint is indicated by a black arrow.

See you soon!

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Become part of the Student Theatre of the State University of Management

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On September 30, the Phoenix student theater will hold an open class in the assembly hall of the State University of Management.

This is a unique opportunity not only to learn the basics of acting, but also to experience the atmosphere of the theater, where everyone can become part of something bigger.

We invite all active and ambitious students who want to immerse themselves in the world of art and discover their talents to join us.

You can also participate in an interview during the class to become part of our student theater. To do this, please fill out the application form beforehand.

We are waiting for everyone on September 30 at 4:30 pm in the Assembly Hall of the State University of Management.

Don't miss this chance – perhaps you will become the star of our theatre.

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Alliance of Education and Industry: SPbPU Discusses Training Engineers of the Future

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Priority 2030, SPbPU, Peter the Great Polytechnic University, engineers of the future, engineering training, education and industry alliance, cybersecurity, technological leadership, Russian universities, business-university collaboration, digital transformation, industrial companies, Polytechnic University.

The roundtable was moderated by Lyudmila Pankova, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at SPbPU, who noted the event's significant significance: "Today, when the federal educational agenda is changing and interaction with industry is becoming a key development vector, the importance of such meetings is difficult to overestimate. We have the opportunity to openly discuss the challenges we face in our interactions and jointly find solutions. We have made significant progress in building new formats of cooperation with industrial partners, but we are also well aware of how much remains to be done."

The discussion was attended by executives and specialists from companies such as TGC-1 PJSC, the Kurchatov Institute National Research Center – Prometey Central Research Institute of Structural Materials, the Obukhov Plant JSC of the Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern, and others. Participants discussed current issues of collaboration between businesses and universities to train a new generation of engineers capable of ensuring the country's technological sovereignty.

Eduard Lisitsky, Deputy Managing Director for Development and Asset Management at PJSC TGC-1, outlined a key need in the energy industry: "Today, we are facing a talent shortage amidst a large-scale digital transformation. The active automation of all processes is radically changing the profile of the required specialist. We need people with IT competencies, not just at the user level, but at the level of creating and managing complex systems. These skills are the new key to the professional effectiveness of our specialists and the competitiveness of our company."

Olga Fomina, First Deputy Director General for Research at the Kurchatov Institute National Research Center – Prometheus Central Research Institute of St. Petersburg Materials and Materials, spoke about the implementation of a systematic approach to personnel training. "Our department at SPbPU is not just a 40-year-old institution, but a living example of successful integration. The established "education-science-industry" chain is proving its effectiveness: it allows students to gain invaluable experience solving real-world problems, ensuring their quick and easy adaptation when applying for a job at our company. Our next shared goal is to strengthen interdisciplinary project work and launch such projects as final qualifying theses," she said.

Kirill Martinson, Advisor to the Director of the Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering at JSC NPO SZRC Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern – Obukhov Plant, commented on the importance of differentiating approaches to engineering training to achieve technological leadership: "A good engineer is not necessarily a scientist, and a good scientist is not necessarily a good engineer. The educational process at a university should include both research and practice-oriented components."

All participants agreed on the need to further strengthen the "alliance of the strong"—a strategic partnership between higher education and the real economy—to address national challenges.

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SPbPU presented its achievements at the International Rugby Congress

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The team from the Institute of Physical Education, Sports, and Tourism at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University organized an exhibition stand and presented their achievements to participants of the international congress "Rugby in the Physical Training System of the Russian Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies. Development Trends and Prospects." The director, faculty, graduate and postgraduate students, and staff of the institute actively participated in the event.

The stand showcased the university's athletic achievements, as well as its ongoing training programs in physical education and sports. Through this presentation, Polytechnic University demonstrated its unique educational potential and highlighted its contribution to the development of sports science.

At the congress, Valery Sushchenko, Director of the Institute of Physical Culture, Sport, and Tourism, held a working meeting with Major General Maikano Abdullahi, Vice President of the International Military Sports Council (CISM) for Africa. The partners discussed opportunities for cooperation and exchange of experience, as well as the development of international educational and sports initiatives.

The congress focused on integrating rugby into the physical training system of law enforcement agencies. Experts noted the importance of this sport for developing team spirit, endurance, and tactical thinking, which is directly related to the training of military specialists.

Participation in the congress was not only an opportunity for the Polytechnic University to present its educational programs but also a platform for discussing current trends in sports development, exchanging best practices, and establishing new professional contacts. The outcome was the expansion of international ties and the strengthening of SPbPU's position in the professional community.

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NeoQUEST from Polytech: St. Petersburg Cybersecurity Festival

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The NeoQUEST-2025 cybersecurity event took place in Brusnitsyn Hall. It is organized annually by the Institute of Computer Science and Cybersecurity at SPbPU with the support of partner companies. This year's event was particularly grand.

NeoQUEST traditionally consisted of three stages: an online CTF, a head-to-head contest with a CTF continuation and conference, and a night tournament for the finalists. In 2025, the head-to-head contest took place at Brusnitsyn Hall and attracted over 400 participants, including students and young professionals. In addition to the CTF, in which participants saved St. Petersburg from a mad scientist and solved problems involving OSINT, cryptography, reverse engineering, web, and forensic science, the audience listened to presentations from industry experts and attended master classes.

Polytechnician Yakov Sendov spoke first, explaining how to compile a profile of a specific individual using "harmless" web server logs and public data, and how to formalize the probability of such user deanonymization. Ilya Afanasyev, periodically speaking to the audience via a voice assistant, shared his experience using machine learning in side-channel attacks. Grigory Paguba, in a large master class, administered a polygraph test to those in the audience and explained its basic principles.

I've been participating in NeoQUEST since 2021. It gives me the opportunity to create something new and unusual, offering challenges that are not quite standard in my work. It inspires me to come up with new ideas. For example, at one of the conferences, my colleagues and I came up with the idea of trying to hack a polygraph. But that's certainly difficult, so we decided to hack a polygraph examiner—not a human, of course, but an AI one. The challenge seemed especially interesting given reports that neural networks detect lies better than human experts. Those who participated in our experiment and sat on the polygraph had the opportunity to fool it—with their breathing, movements, and heartbeat. Which is essentially what they did. Together, we came to the conclusion that machine learning is unlikely to replace both the polygraph itself and the profession of polygraph examiner anytime soon, shared long-time NeoQUEST participant and polytechnician Grigory Paguba.

In the second part of the event, independent researcher Nikita Tarakanov dissected Microsoft Windows security. Alexey Lyamkin (VK) explored bug bounty programs, why companies need them, and why they're of interest to security researchers. Anatoly Karpenko (Luntry) described how SBOM containers are built, how vulnerability scanners for Docker images work, and why you shouldn't always trust their results.

Alongside the main program, there were workshops on lockpicking and Wi-Fi, as well as a special workshop from STC. STC also prepared a special CryptoQuest for the audience, with questions about Alan Turing and asymmetric encryption. Prizes were awarded for all activities.

NeoQUEST has been held since 2012. This year, we expanded the venue to attract even more participants. The presentation area focused on trending topics, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning in cybersecurity. "We're striving to develop the event so students have the opportunity to directly interact with industry experts," explains Maria Reznikova, one of the event's organizers.

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Day of Reunification of the DPR, LPR, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Oblasts with the Russian Federation

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Today, Russia celebrates the third anniversary of the reunification of the Donetsk People's Republic, Luhansk People's Republic, and the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.

On this day in 2022, in the St. George's Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, President Vladimir Putin and the heads of the historical regions—Denis Pushilin, Leonid Pasechnik, Yevgeny Balitsky, and Vladimir Saldo—signed international treaties granting these entities accession to Russia. The new regions retained their status as republics and oblasts, as well as their names. Russian was declared the official language of the DPR and LPR.

On the eve of this event, referendums were held, according to the results of which 99.23% of voters in the DPR voted in favor of joining the Russian Federation, 98.42% in the LPR, 93.11% in the Zaporizhzhia region, and 87.05% in the Kherson region.

The referendums were held in full compliance with the norms and principles of international law on self-determination of peoples in accordance with the UN Charter, the International Covenants on Human Rights of 1966 and the Helsinki Final Act of the CSCE of 1975.

Today is a holiday not only for residents of the new regions, but for all of Russia, as it has become a symbol of the unity of the Russian people, the strength of national culture, and the restoration of historical justice.

We congratulate all Russians and wish for the speedy establishment of peace and tranquility throughout our country.

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13 NSU researchers included in the list of the world's most cited scientists

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Stanford University's updated 2024 World's Top 2% Scientists ranking includes 13 Novosibirsk State University scientists (full-time and part-time employees who indicate their affiliation with NSU in their publications). The ranking annually analyzes their citation impact and scientific activity to identify the most influential researchers in their fields.

The ranking represents the top 2% of the world's most cited scientists according to the Scopus/Elsevier core. The composite c-score indicator takes into account the total number of citations, the h-index, the hm-index adjusted for co-authorship, and the order of co-authors. The ranking was compiled without taking into account self-citations and was based on standardized indicators for each field of science.

Citation impact was assessed across 22 research areas and 174 sections according to the standard Science-Metrix classification. The work of millions of researchers worldwide was analyzed; the ranking contains a list of over 230,000 scientists. Impact indicators were calculated for the scientist's entire career and for the past year. Many NSU part-time researchers are listed in the ranking as employees of SB RAS institutes; therefore, the NSU list could have been significantly broader.

The 2024 ranking for the entire career of a scientist included (as representatives of NSU):

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Evgenievich Bondar (ranking position 55645, h=137)

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor Sergeevich Fadin (85813, h=43)

Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences Inna Yuryevna Safonova (103141, h=39)

Doctor of Chemical Sciences Nina Pavlovna Gritsan (140135, h=41)

Candidate of Chemical Sciences Valery Anatolyevich Drebushchak (183029, h=27)

Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Sergei Mikhailovich Kobtsev (185063, h=33)

Doctor of Technical Sciences Boris Yakovlevich Ryabko (198418, h=18)

Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Evgeny Anatolyevich Chinnov (229872, h=19)

The 2024 ranking for the last year included NSU scientists:

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Evgenievich Bondar (75433)

Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences Inna Yuryevna Safonova (81272)

Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Sergei Mikhailovich Kobtsev (137508)

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor Sergeevich Fadin (160114)

Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Georgy Ivanovich Lazorenko (168833, h=21)

Candidate of Chemical Sciences Valery Anatolyevich Drebushchak (175640)

Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Valery Yakovlevich Rudyak (192143, h=29)

Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Dmitry Vladimirovich Churkin (213402, h=39)

Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Alexander Vladimirovich Dostovalov (233554, h=25)

Doctor of Biological Sciences Mikhail Georgievich Sergeev (235200, h=10)

The first two positions from NSU in the ranking for the entire career of a scientist are occupied by former deans Faculty of Physics of NSU Alexander Evgenievich Bondar (2010–2020) and Viktor Sergeevich Fadin (1993–1998).

Alexander Evgenievich Bondar is a renowned specialist in high-energy and elementary particle physics, having made significant contributions to the development of experimental methods. He proposed and successfully implemented a spectrometer at the VEPP-4M with unique energy resolution for recording scattered electrons, and developed a method for creating electromagnetic calorimeters based on cesium iodide crystals.

Viktor Sergeevich Fadin is a leading specialist in theoretical physics. He studied a number of quantum electrodynamic processes experimentally observed in colliding electron-positron beams and discovered and investigated the coherence effect in the emission of soft gluons in quantum chromodynamics.

Inna Yuryevna Safonova is a renowned expert in geotectonics, geochemistry, and geochronology. Her research focuses on the geology and tectonics of the Central Asian Fold Belt, the evolution of ancient oceans and mantle magmatism, isotope geochronology, and the geochemistry and isotopy of oceanic, island-arc, and intraplate igneous rocks.

Nina Pavlovna Gritsan is a leading specialist in the field of studying the mechanisms of photochemical transformations of organic compounds using experimental spectroscopic methods and theoretical quantum chemical calculations.

Valery Anatolyevich Drebushchak – Associate Professor of the Department of Solid State Chemistry Faculty of Natural Sciences of NSU, a specialist in the field of thermal analysis in solid state chemistry.

Sergey Mikhailovich Kobtsev is the head of the Department of Laser Physics and Innovative Technologies at NSU and an expert in photonics, fiber optics, and nonlinear optics. He is an honorary member and distinguished reviewer of the International Optical Society (OSA).

Boris Yakovlevich Ryabko's research interests lie in applied mathematics, information theory, cryptography, and mathematical biology. He is one of the world's leading experts in information theory.

Evgeny Anatolyevich Chinnov is a specialist in the field of heat exchange processes, two-phase flows, film flows, micro- and nanostructured surfaces.

Over the past five years, the scale of NSU's in-house research activities has grown to a level comparable to its educational activities, and science and research are now the university's second core activity. One indicator confirming this is the high publication activity of NSU scientists. Thus, by the end of 2024, more than 1,760 publications had been published in SCOPUS journals, more than 1,300 in Web of Science, and more than 1,970 in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). Moreover, the share of publications in the most prestigious and highly ranked scientific journals (Q1 and Q2 SCOPUS) was approximately 60%. The number of citations in SCOPUS reached almost 2,000. Importantly, since 2018, the number of NSU's own publications (without co-authorship with employees of SB RAS research institutes) has increased by 30%, and now they account for approximately 20% of the total number of publications with NSU participation. The inclusion of 13 NSU researchers on the list of the world's most highly cited scientists demonstrates that NSU is working in cutting-edge areas and at a high international level, commented NSU Rector and RAS Academician Mikhail Fedoruk.

Material prepared by: Elena Panfilo, NSU press service

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Not just lectures: NSU hosted a student association fair, "After Classes."

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On September 27, the "After Classes" student association fair was held at NSU's academic building. The event brought together numerous clubs and students, who were able to learn about the university's extracurricular activities and choose the ones that best suit their interests.

The hallways of the second floor of the second block were noisy and lively: student groups presented their projects on interactive platforms, and during breaks, guests were treated to musical flash mobs from the NSU Music Club. Fairgoers socialized, participated in activities, and received souvenirs.

Creative groups generated particular interest. The KvARTira Theatre Studio presented interactive performances.

"We're currently planning several public performances and an expressive poetry reading. We're generally involved in contemporary theater arts: we stage productions based on our own scripts, and during our classes, we offer training in movement, vocals, and acting in general," said studio member Sergei Bobkin.

Another station, the NSU Photo Club, attracted attention with two formats at once: a photo drying station and a photo zone.

"The Photo Club is a place where people who love photography gather. It doesn't matter whether you're using a phone or a professional camera—the desire to improve your skills is paramount. We host photo walks, field trips, and, for beginners, lectures on the basics of photography. At "After Class," anyone can hang their work to dry, appreciate others' photos, or have a portrait taken in our photo zone," shared club member Ksenia Sharova.

Additionally, student associations offered quizzes, pantomime, and even accordion playing. All of this gave first-year students and others the opportunity to experience the atmosphere of the NSU student community and discover new hobbies.

"After School" isn't just about getting to know the clubs, it's also an opportunity to discover talents, share ideas, and try new things.

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On September 26, the first Career Graduation ceremony was held in the new NSU auditorium building.

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On September 26, the new NSU classroom building, part of the second phase of NSU's campus construction, hosted the first "Career Graduation." Graduates of the Class of 2025 had the opportunity to meet with representatives of partner companies and participate in career consultations, where they presented their resumes and received feedback from employers. In turn, the companies shared information about opportunities in the labor market and expanded their candidate database. The event was organized by the NSU Career Development Center.

Representatives from SHIFT, the Siberian Center of FIPS, True Engineering, T-Bank, 2GIS, and other major companies took part in the event.

Daria Kanivets of the IT company True Engineering noted that NSU graduates are of particular interest to employers:

We're especially interested in students with technical backgrounds: they already have a solid theoretical foundation and even practical experience. Of course, soft skills are also important—a desire to learn, communication skills, and the ability to build relationships in a team. Even a highly skilled technical specialist will struggle without these qualities. You can also apply for a position with us without experience: part-time opportunities are available for students. We also offer internships that are immediately linked to real-world projects—under the guidance of a mentor, students gain their first professional experience and gradually become independent professionals.

The company's interviews consist of several stages: an initial HR assessment, a technical assessment (including practical assignments), and a final meeting at the office. Applicants were provided with guidance on resume writing and skill development—both technical and communication and creative.

Students also note the value of communicating with employers. Anna Murashkina, a graduate of the Fundamental and Applied Linguistics program at the NSU Humanities Institute, shared her impressions:

I'm currently interning in Data Science and want to grow in this field. I'd like to learn how to stand out from the crowd and write a great resume.

At the end of the event, Svetlana Dovgal, Director of the NSU Career Development Center, noted:

About a hundred of our students received assistance with resume writing and interviews. NSU graduates are always highly motivated in their job searches and are in high demand among employers. Our partner companies also really liked the new format, the new building, and our students.

The "Career Graduation" not only provided students with an opportunity to better prepare for future employment, but also confirmed the high level of interest employers show in NSU graduates.

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