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Today, the State University of Management congratulates Olga Pisareva, Director of the Institute of Information Systems at the State University of Management, Head of the Department of Mathematical Methods in Economics and Management, Candidate of Economic Sciences, and Associate Professor, on her birthday.

Olga Pisareva has been involved with the Institute of Information Systems since her student years, successfully completing her studies there, joining the faculty, and rising through the ranks from department assistant to Director of the Institute of Information Systems. Under her confident leadership, the Institute of Information Systems has tripled its graduate enrollment over the past five years, demonstrating its growing popularity and the relevance of its programs.

Olga Mikhailovna, thank you for your loyalty and dedication to our university. Your professionalism, vision for technological development, and ability to inspire your team have made the Institute a leader in training highly qualified personnel in the field of information technology.

We wish you the best in achieving your goals both at work and in your personal life. May this spring bring you only pleasant impressions and a successful admissions campaign.

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On March 11, the State University of Management hosted an interactive lecture from LG Electronics.

Over 100 first-year students from the State University of Management's Institute of Marketing attended a creative meeting titled "Optimism and Inspiration as the Key to Successful Communications" with Tatyana Shakhnes, the company's senior PR/ESG director in Russia.

The central theme of the lecture was public relations and the role of professionalism in building communications between a brand and society. Particular attention was paid to how modern companies can not only communicate their products and technologies but also support and initiate social projects, setting a positive agenda.

The expert emphasized that in the era of the attention economy, sincerity, emotional engagement, and meaningful content are becoming key tools for effective and long-term dialogue with society.

In her speech, the lecturer also presented a new book, "25 Years of Communications," which draws together 25 years of Baltic Weekend's best cases. The publication includes one of the most significant industry projects promoting blood donation—LG's social initiative, aimed at developing a culture of this noble volunteer movement.

Using examples of the company's communications initiatives, the students were shown how a combination of creativity, a relevant agenda, and collaboration with opinion leaders from various fields helps generate lasting audience interest. During the session, the participants divided into teams and discussed the similarities between advertising and public relations, and what aspects are unique to each industry.

At the end of the meeting, Tatyana Shakhnes invited students to participate in a creative assignment: try their hand at being public relations specialists and develop their own communications projects.

As a reminder, LG Electronics' first lecture at the State University of Management took place in 2022, the year the company's educational marathon kicked off. To date, more than 300 events have been held as part of this initiative.

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On March 13, 1888, one of the greatest educators of the 20th century, Anton Makarenko, was born.

Since childhood, he was a sickly child, he loved books most of all, and had little contact with his family.

In 1904, he graduated from a four-grade school in Kremenchuk, and in 1905, he completed a one-year pedagogical course, after which he worked for several years as a teacher in various institutions, and in parallel, in 1917, he graduated with honors from the Poltava Teachers' Institute.

Makarenko and the street children

As a result of World War I, the Revolution, and the Civil War, a huge number of street children appeared in the USSR: according to various estimates, between 4.5 and 7 million. Special colonies were established everywhere to educate and resocialize these juvenile delinquents, many of which evolved into communes.

Since 1920, Anton Makarenko directed a labor colony for street children and juvenile delinquents in the village of Kovalivka near Poltava. He named it after the writer Maxim Gorky, with whom he corresponded. In 1928, the colony was visited by the writer himself, who later called Makarenko a "great teacher."

The teacher's approach truly bore fruit: most of the children who ended up in the colony earned an honest living and never returned to criminal activity.

He shared his experience in raising difficult teenagers in his "Pedagogical Poem," which was named one of the ten most significant books on education of the 20th century and translated into dozens of languages. Anton Makarenko himself was recognized by UNESCO as one of the greatest educators of the 20th century.

Makarenko's educational system

Anton Makarenko was the first in world pedagogy to place the collective as a living system with a complex internal structure, traditions, and prospects at the center of the educational process.

A key element of the collective was the system of self-government. The colonists were divided into squads of 10-12 people, each squad electing a leader. The commanders formed a council that decided the most important issues. This system worked because it was based on the principle of responsibility. Every colonist was both a leader and a subordinate. One day you were a squad leader, the next, a rank-and-file soldier. This is how the understanding was born: power is not a privilege, but a service.

One of Makarenko's key discoveries is the principle of "parallel pedagogical action." Instead of influencing an individual student, the teacher influences the group, and the group influences the individual.

A second integral part of their upbringing was shared labor. The colony was located outside the city and was almost entirely self-sufficient. The teenagers themselves plowed the land, planted and harvested crops, carried out repairs and construction, and landscaped the grounds. However, there was no focus on labor alone. Makarenko believed that the integration of academic, work, social, athletic, and even aesthetic activities was crucial to their upbringing.

Moreover, Anton Makarenko was one of the first to understand the educational value of traditions. A whole set of customs developed in his colonies: ceremonial assemblies, the first sheaf festival, special dress codes, rituals for welcoming newcomers and seeing off graduates.

Traditions created an emotional memory for the collective, bonded generations of colonists, and fostered a sense of belonging to a special community. When a former street child donned a colonist uniform, they acquired a new identity—they ceased to be "nobodies" and became part of the collective.

Makarenko's pedagogical legacy continues to influence the Russian education system and student management. Today, many educational institutions build their work on the principles of collectivism, self-governance, and the development of the personal qualities of each student.

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Ruslan Talipov graduated from the Faculty of Technical Cybernetics at the Polytechnic University in 2007. He studied evening classes alongside his job, so he didn't have the opportunity to immerse himself in the student atmosphere. Now, as an ambassador for SPbPU, Ruslan is enthusiastically making up for lost time: he participates in numerous events at his alma mater—and not alone, but with his family. He is supported by his wife, Larisa, a graduate of the Saint Petersburg Institute of Mechanical Engineering (PIM), which became part of the Polytechnic University in 2011, and their five children.

In an interview with the Politechnik newspaper, Ruslan spoke about his life position, family values, work, hobbies, and the importance of his connection to his alma mater.

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On March 17, the State University of Management will host its traditional Career Day, where students will have the opportunity to learn more about current employer opportunities.

More than 30 participating companies will present their activities, current internship programs, candidate requirements, and career opportunities for students, while specialists from the SUM Career and Practical Training Center will provide consultations for everyone.

In addition, in the Scientific Library, a representative of the industrial partner of the State University of Management, the RVB company (Wildberries)

Pre-registration is required to participate in the events.

We look forward to welcoming everyone to the GUU Career Day on March 17 at 11:00 in the CUVP Hall.

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Registration for the sixth edition of The Blue Ocean Open Polytech Entrepreneurship Competition 2026, a youth competition for entrepreneurial and business ideas, is now open. Blue ocean strategy is a strategy for creating competition-free markets developed in the early 2000s by INSEAD business school professors Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne.

During the competition, participants learn the five core analytical tools of blue ocean strategy on an online platform, apply them to solve practical cases, and develop their entrepreneurial ideas. The competition is designed for those who want to understand how to create a product based on the concept of value innovation, whereby consumers gain new value and producers reduce costs.

Over the six years of the competition, more than 1,000 people have participated. This year, 165 participants—college and university students, as well as graduate students—registered. They formed teams of up to four people.

The competition is held in two stages remotely. The first stage involves studying the fundamentals of blue ocean strategy and solving a practical task on its application. This stage runs from March 2 to 31. The results are scheduled to be announced from April 1 to 7. The announcement of the results will be on April 8.

The second stage involves developing a blue ocean strategy for your startup, entrepreneurial idea, or generating an idea from scratch. It runs until April 20th. The results will be announced between April 21st and 28th.

The announcement of the competition results is scheduled for April 29. The awards ceremony for the winners will take place in May.

The presentation format of the results includes video presentations of the project and case solution.

This year, the competition organizer, the Institute of Industrial Management, Economics, and Trade, provided a prize fund of 140,000 rubles from the "Economic Education" endowment fund of the SPbPU Endowment Fund to award the winners. The competition is also supported by the Polytech Foundation for Innovation Support and Development, the Higher School of Technological Entrepreneurship, and the Advanced Engineering School "Digital Engineering" of SPbPU.

Prizes for teams of up to four people are: first place – 60,000 rubles, second place – 40,000 rubles, and third place – 20,000 rubles. The prize for the most technologically advanced project is 20,000 rubles. A special prize of 20,000 rubles for the "Captain of the winning team" was provided by the competition partner. LLC "PSS"The company's CEO is Pavel Balobanov. The company is a leader in the Russian market in strategic consulting and business process digitalization for organizations in the construction industry.

All team members will receive certificates, and the winners will receive diplomas and additional points for admission to the Polytechnic University's master's program in the IPMEiT program without exams based on winning the portfolio competition: winners – 60 points, runners-up – 40 points.

Contacts:

The chairman of the competition jury is Anastasiy Igorevich Klimin, associate professor at the Higher School of Industrial Management: klimin_ai@spbstu.ru.

The competition manager is Vitaly Trofimov, a first-year student in the Marketing Communications and Market Analytics master's program and a winner of the 2024 and 2025 competitions: trofimov2.vv@edu.spbstu.ru.

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The St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Institute of Civil Engineering, together with the developer RBI Group, organized an introductory internship for master's students in the international educational program "Civil Engineering." During the internship, the students visited the construction site of the Kuindzhi residential complex.

The event was attended by second-year master's students from 11 countries: China, Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Afghanistan, as well as their Russian classmates. The tour was led by Natalia Braila, Associate Professor at the Institute of Hydrotechnical and Power Engineering (ISI) and Head of the Educational Program.

A visit to the residential complex under construction provided a unique opportunity for students to observe the modern construction methods and technologies used by leading developers in St. Petersburg today: from modern engineering systems to landscaping, structural systems, energy-efficient facades and translucent structures, digital coordination via a BIM model, and tender process management.

St. Petersburg has historically been and remains a place for implementing the most advanced technologies, from the construction of the first brick buildings on Vasilievsky Island to the construction of Europe's tallest skyscraper. Our goal, as one of the oldest technical universities in the country, is to share our achievements with talented specialists from friendly countries, who can contribute to the development of their own countries and bring their original ideas to our land. And it's important to us that we have the support of St. Petersburg's leading developers in this endeavor," emphasized SPbPU Rector Andrey Rudskoy.

The tour was led by Sergey Neelov, Head of the RBI Group's Engineering Team, and Taisiya Zelenkova, Director of Information Policy and Communications at RBI Group. During the visit, the specialists explained the project's features to the students and answered their questions.

The event included a tour of the facility's main areas: the architectural design and layout of the exterior, underground parking, apartment units, and the technical rooms supporting the building's utility systems. Of particular interest was the opportunity to examine the utility systems during the installation phase, prior to finishing work, allowing future specialists to thoroughly examine the logic behind the systems' placement and operating principles.

The graduate students also learned about the concept behind the residential complex's name. They were introduced to the philosophy behind the name "Kuindzhi," which reflects the connection between the building's architectural image and the creative legacy of artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, renowned for his mastery of light and color. This example demonstrated the potential for integrating artistic and engineering approaches in creating a comfortable urban environment.

Our mission is not only to develop urban areas through our projects but also to pass on our experience to talented young people and future generations. We actively collaborate with the Polytechnic University, holding lectures and discussions, and now also practical tours for young engineers and construction workers. Without this transfer of experience, the further development of the industry, and with it the development of the economy and the country, would be impossible," noted Eduard Tiktinsky, President of the RBI Group and Honorary Professor of SPbPU.

Eduard Tiktinsky more than once met with students of SPbPU and gave lectures. At these meetings, he shares his experiences, secrets of personal effectiveness and developing new skills with students, helping them find their path and profession. Since 2025, the President of RBI has held the title Honorary Professor of SPbPUEduard Tiktinsky is also known for his support of young entrepreneurs and as an expert in education. In 2017, he initiated the creation of the non-profit educational project "School of Future Leaders" for talented and motivated high school students. It now brings together over 200 participants—schoolchildren, students, and university graduates. Eduard Tiktinsky's lectures, presentations, and discussions at various business clubs invariably draw full houses.

"It was a fantastic experience for our group. Watching the construction of a residential complex in real life, especially with the team working diligently even in the snow, was fascinating and inspiring," noted Master's student Anas Ahmed.

"I really enjoyed the tour, from the beautiful façade to the underground parking, water supply, heating, and low-voltage systems, apartments, and the control room. For me, it was a clear confirmation of the high level of the Russian engineering school, which my mentor in Nigeria, architect Christian Uloko, had told me about," commented master's student Ndur Aondona Elijah.

"The tour of the RBI construction site was a profound practical lesson in quality, safety, and organizational discipline in modern construction. We saw all the key areas of the site—from the underground parking garage with utility systems to the apartment. I was particularly impressed by RBI's philosophy—a balance of innovation and strict control that allows for the creation of reliable and beautiful buildings. For me, as a future engineer, this visit was clear confirmation that construction is not just about calculations and materials, but about respect for the plan and uncompromising quality at every stage. I thank the Institute of Strategic Studies and RBI for this invaluable experience," said Master's student Umar Khazrat.

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A delegation from the Consulate General of the Republic of Uzbekistan, headed by Consul Kabul Alimov, paid an official visit to Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

The visit began with a tour of the university's International Campus, followed by talks with Dmitry Arsenyev, SPbPU Vice-Rector for International Affairs, and the heads of relevant departments. The parties discussed a wide range of bilateral cooperation issues. They focused on expanding dual degree programs with leading universities in Uzbekistan, as well as the possibility of implementing joint scientific and educational projects, including international student marathons and festivals.

"Uzbekistan is currently one of our top three priority partners for the Polytechnic University. We collaborate very actively, and we have over twenty partner universities in the republic," noted Dmitry Arsenyev.

The key event of the program was a meeting between the consulate delegation and Uzbek citizens studying at the Polytechnic University. During an open dialogue, the consul inquired about the students' living and studying conditions, their academic performance, and their involvement in community life. The students asked questions about migration registration, access to consular and legal services, and their participation in the activities of the Youth Union of Uzbekistan in the Northwestern Federal District.

Polytechnic University representatives responsible for student affairs praised the Uzbek students' level of preparation, noting their high level of culture and diligence in their studies. Institute leaders confirmed the demand for the engineering and economics specialties the students are pursuing.

"We want you not only to study but also to participate in the lives of our compatriots in St. Petersburg. If you have ideas, creative projects, or a desire to represent Uzbek culture, we are ready to support you. The doors of the consulate are always open to you," Kabul Alimov told the students.

At a meeting with students, support was expressed for the election of a leader for the Uzbek Community at the Polytechnic University. This will optimize interaction between students and the consulate and engage them in cultural and sporting events held in St. Petersburg. Consulate representatives invited the students to Uzbek Cinema Days and encouraged them to participate in other international projects at our university.

The visit concluded with a visit to the Polytechnic University Interclub. The guests toured the Unified Center for Registration of Foreign Citizens and praised the living conditions and support system for SPbPU's international students.

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