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The 11th International Arctic Legal Forum, "Conservation and Sustainable Development of the Arctic: Legal Aspects," was held in St. Petersburg. The forum, dedicated to the fundamental challenges of legal support for Arctic development, brought together senators, deputies, government representatives, business leaders, academics, lawyers, and students.

Andrey Rudskoy, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Rector of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, delivered a welcoming address at the plenary session. He noted the historical significance of the Arctic for Russia and proposed making the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences a permanent venue for the forum.

The forum paid special attention to young people. The Arctic Legal Hack, a student hackathon, was held at the historic Zifergauz. Five teams from universities in St. Petersburg and Tyumen worked on a pressing issue: "How to organize solid municipal waste management in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in the Arctic?"

A jury, headed by Sergey Karasev, Deputy Governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, evaluated the submitted project initiatives. The winning team was the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University team, which included first-year master's students from the Graduate School of Public Administration, Institute of Industrial Management, Economics, and Trade: Ekaterina Suleimanova, Danil Neustroev, Artem Yemelyanov, Maxim Svilpov, Marina Korlyakova, and Valeria Listova, a student from the Graduate School of Service and Trade. Natalia Putintseva, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration, and Sergey Timofeev, Senior Lecturer, served as consultants.

Participating in the hackathon allowed us to demonstrate our management skills and approach the situation comprehensively, taking into account a number of constraints. The topic of solid municipal waste management in the harsh Arctic conditions was challenging, but interesting to explore. A wide variety of ideas emerged during the process. We thank our mentors for their support and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug representative office in St. Petersburg for the opportunity to participate in such an event and influence the resolution of a relevant and real-world case, noted Ekaterina Suleimanova.

At the XI International Arctic Legal Forum in St. Petersburg, our team successfully presented a solution to an interesting and useful case. We put in a lot of effort, so we're very pleased that our project was noticed and appreciated! added Marina Korlyakova.

Following the forum, recommendations will be prepared for the Russian Government that could influence actual legislation.

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In the summer of 2025, the team from the SPbPU "Adapters" public institute won a grant from the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs for 1,276,120 rubles to implement a mentoring project. Active work had already begun then, but the first events only began in the fall, when the institutes' heads and deputies, as well as deputy heads, were replaced.

The first event was a problem-solving session. At it, the outgoing team discussed the challenges they had faced over the past year and analyzed possible solutions. After the names of the new leaders were announced, training began. This included a networking session to introduce the team members to each other, as well as lectures, which are mandatory for those taking on new positions.

At the end of November, a trip took place, marking the culmination of the Rosmolodezh grant. The event brought together the current and previous management teams, providing a unique opportunity to share experiences, transfer knowledge, and gain a deeper understanding of the specifics of leadership. The trip program included lectures, business and educational games, master classes, and joint activities aimed at strengthening professional knowledge.

One of the key events was a lecture by Dmitry Agranovsky and Alexander Potalov, the 2024 and 2023 Adapters Olympic Games leaders, respectively. Participants discussed modern approaches to team management, personal responsibility of a leader, and interaction within the student community. A business simulation was organized for the new team, where participants experienced the leadership journey, from their first days on the job to the end of the season. This allowed them to become familiar with real-life challenges, understand the structure of the work, and appreciate the importance of a mentor's role.

A special program was prepared for members of the institute's previous teams: an economic game, an immersive quest, a master class, and other events. Participants reminisced about their journeys and looked at the community's development from a mentoring perspective. Particular attention was paid to joint events. These became a platform for successors and their predecessors to exchange views, find common solutions, and develop a unified vision for the future of the Adapters Olympic Games. The events clearly demonstrated the principle of continuity.

The trip was not only an educational event but also an important step in strengthening a social institution, where each participant is part of a shared history and the foundation of future projects. The outcome of this work was the creation of a methodological framework for developing a mentoring program within the "Adapters" initiative. It aims to engage and retain student community leaders in the life of the university and in addressing youth policy issues. Its goal is to develop the institution of mentoring within the activities of other student communities. The program has demonstrated significant effectiveness, with 600 students participating.

The project was implemented with the support of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh). The organizing team earned gratitude for their work and for creating an environment in which interaction, development, and continuity are the key principles of communication.

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A team from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, consisting of fourth-year students Alexander Kolosov and Daniil Milyutin, majoring in "Construction of Unique Buildings and Structures" at the Civil Engineering Institute, won the finals of the Alabuga BIM competition in information modeling technology.

The "Alabuga BIM" competition aims to identify and support future professionals capable of applying advanced BIM technologies to the design of modern infrastructure. Fifty talented students from 14 Russian regions competed for the title of best BIM designer.

The competition was organized by Alabuga Development and Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. Lilia Talipova, a senior lecturer at the Higher School of Pedagogics and Design, served as the expert and developer of the SPbPU competition task.

The competition task required participants to design a miniature special economic zone (SEZ) and accommodate three residents. Each team was assigned a development site with specific technical requirements.

The result of the work was a detailed visualization of the adopted design solutions and a project defense before an expert committee.

Following the competition, the SPbPU team, led by Alexander Mitin, assistant professor at the Higher School of Industrial, Civil, and Road Construction of the Civil Engineering Institute, took first place.

"The experience of participating in this competition was extremely positive. During the in-person stage, we were given a fairly extensive task, which required us to almost completely redesign our original models. Thanks to a well-thought-out plan and coordinated teamwork, we were able to fully complete the task. It was very interesting to work on the concept of our own SEZ during the remote stage, and equally exciting to accommodate new residents during the in-person stage," noted Daniil Milyutin.

"Participating in the Alabuga BIM Championship is an invaluable experience, offering the opportunity to test your knowledge and skills under time constraints. It's especially gratifying to win for the second year in a row. The competition's updated project format allowed us to demonstrate not only our technical capabilities but also to showcase an example of a well-designed SEZ concept with compelling architectural and design solutions," commented Alexander Kolosov.

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On November 28, 1880, in a home of St. Petersburg intellectuals, a boy was born who would become the voice of a passing era and a prophet of a gathering storm: Alexander Alexandrovich Blok. Not just a poet, but a living conduit between heaven and earth, between the palace Beautiful Lady and the street Stranger, between the imperial harmony of Pushkin and the creative chaos of revolution.

On the edge of reality

He grew up in a noble aristocratic family, surrounded by an intellectual atmosphere of high scholarship. His mother, Alexandra Andreyevna Beketova, was a writer and translator; his grandfather, the renowned botanist Andrei Nikolaevich Beketov, was rector of St. Petersburg University; and his father, Alexander Lvovich Blok, was a professor of law at Warsaw University. Unfortunately, the future poet's parents separated before his birth, so Alexander spent his childhood on the Beketov estates. He especially loved the Shakhmatovo estate near Moscow, where the air smelled of lilacs, old books, and theater. There, in private productions, the young Blok played both male and female roles with talent, subtly sensing the duality of this world, which his poetics imbued—the heavenly and the earthly, the bright and the deadly, awe and irony. Even in his youth, Alexander stood out for his noble appearance: tall, slender, with a piercing, thoughtful gaze. Later, his contemporaries called him the "knight" and "prince" of the Silver Age—an image that blended seamlessly with his poetry, turning him into an almost mystical figure.

And love came

At 18, Alexander Blok wrote his first poems in the style of 19th-century poets, but soon found his own style, inspired by the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov and his image of the Eternal Feminine, which combines beauty, goodness, and harmony. It was then that the traits of the Beautiful Lady began to emerge in Blok's poetry—not just a woman, but a symbol of Sophia, the Wisdom of God, the embodiment of harmony and divine love. He found the earthly embodiment of his ideal in the daughter of the great chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev and a neighbor of the Beketovs at their dacha. In 1903, Lyubov and Alexander married, and just a year later, his first book, "Poems about the Beautiful Lady," was published—not a collection, but a mystical drama, where every word sounds like a prayer, and every image carries a reflection of eternal light.

The marriage was permeated by a tragic gap between symbol and reality: perceiving her as the embodiment of the Eternal Feminine, Blok insisted on "spiritual" love and avoided physical intimacy. Lyubov Dmitrievna suffered but accepted his infidelities. She herself found solace in a relationship with the poet Andrei Bely, which gave rise to more than just a love triangle—a monumental poetic duel between two symbolists battling for the right to possess the living embodiment of the Divine Feminine.

Between two revolutions

As Russia enters a time of upheaval, Blok seems to descend from the heavens. His lyrical hero is no longer a knight at the altar—he is a man in a coat who sees a stranger through the smoke of the fatherland. In her, the features of that same Beautiful Lady are recognizable, but now clad in the rags of reality. Alexander Alexandrovich writes plays, stages them with Meyerhold, seeks the language of a new theater, becomes a critic, publicist, and thinker. And following Nekrasov and his poet-citizen, he proclaims: a poet must serve the times.

In January 1918, in ruined Petrograd, hungry, sick, but filled with mystical energy, Blok wrote "The Twelve"—a poem that divided the era into before and after. It depicts dirt and blood, and above it all, Christ, crowned in white, leads the Red Army soldiers. The poet believes that this is not chaos, but the very Apocalypse, heralding transformation and a new life filled with light and joy. He then wrote "The Scythians," prophetically calling on the West not to touch Russia.

Fall from Olympus

But the revolution brought no light and forever silenced the poet's inner music. Blok was horrified by the devastation and famine; he no longer wrote poetry, answering questions about his oppressive silence: "All sounds have ceased, can't you hear that there are no sounds?" The great lyricist spent his final years in poverty and illness, working in a publishing house and translating Heinrich Heine's poetry from German to earn bread rationing. He was denied permission to travel abroad—even the all-powerful Maxim Gorky couldn't save him.

In 1921, just months shy of his 41st birthday, the Prince of the Silver Age died—doctors were unable to diagnose his condition. Before his death, Alexander Alexandrovich raved incessantly about the same thing: had all the copies of "The Twelve" been destroyed? Was there even one left somewhere? He asked his wife to thoroughly search for them and burn them, and was only briefly reassured by her swearing that all the books had been destroyed. The Acmeist poet Georgy Ivanov wrote: "Blok realized the error of "The Twelve" and was horrified by its irreparability. Like a sleepwalker suddenly awakening, he fell from a height and was killed. In the strictest sense of the word, he died from "The Twelve," as others die from pneumonia or a broken heart."

Today, on the 145th anniversary of the last knight of the Silver Age, we don't simply commemorate the date. We listen to the mournful silence left behind by his poems—in it, we can discern the echo of a bygone era that still lives around us.

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On November 27, as part of the Congress of Young Scientists' poster program, the Agency for Strategic Initiatives held a session titled "Time to Live in Russia / Open Science: Opportunities for Foreign Talent in Science and Technology." Vladimir Stroyev, Rector of the State University of Management, presented a report on the specifics and dynamics of international student recruitment at SUM, their integration into the educational process and research activities, and their development trajectories after graduation.

Vladimir Stroyev noted the university's international cooperation practices and joint projects, including work at the Eurasian Network University, whose Secretariat is served by SUM.

"We see potential for productive joint work across the EAEU. For example, there's an idea to use the findings of a major research project in the agricultural sector to "close the loop" in Kyrgyzstan's agro-industrial complex, creating multi-product value chains. Positive effects include reduced water pollution and the emergence and growth of new, high-margin agricultural products. Of particular note is the potential for creating a new production facility for highly effective feed additives, which would not only increase the feed supply but also improve the health of livestock populations, increasing their productivity and reducing losses from disease," Vladimir Vitalyevich explained.

This project could result in a digital foundation for the operation of next-generation agricultural enterprises operating in various sectors and subsectors of the EAEU's agro-industrial complex. The introduction of a suite of technologies, equipment, and software that eliminates critical vulnerabilities and dependence on foreign, primarily Western, solution providers will help ensure food security for the Eurasian Economic Union.

"Furthermore, among the promising areas for collective work, we see, for example, joint digital modeling of agro-industrial processes, testing of individual technological solutions, and addressing identified deficiencies in the agro-industrial complex, as well as the practical implementation of the obtained results throughout the EAEU," the rector of the State University of Management summarized.

Other speakers at the session included Anton Shashkin, Director of the Department of State Policy in Scientific and Technological Development at the Russian Ministry of Education and Science; Yulia Linskaya, Deputy Head of the Presidential Executive Office for Scientific and Educational Policy; Ekaterina Solntseva, Deputy Chairperson of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Government; Mikhail Gordin, Rector of Bauman Moscow State Technical University (MSTU); and Irina Korotkova, CEO of Inconsult K LLC.

Chung Rae Kwon, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Chairman of the Global Energy Prize International Award Committee, and Director of the Ban Ki-Moon Foundation, took part in the discussion on attracting foreign specialists.

During the session, participants discussed Russia's strengthening status as a key country open to international scientific and educational cooperation, as well as the annual growth in the number of international students. The main topics of discussion were mechanisms for retaining young international specialists and graduates in Russian science and the specifics of creating an infrastructure for their life and work.

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The State University of Management held the ceremonial closing of the School of Administrators of the federal program "Service Learning"—a key educational module for training coordinators of socially oriented projects in universities and colleges across the country.

The school, which began on November 13, brought together over 50 representatives from across Russia's regions—university staff, activists, and mentors responsible for implementing the Service-Learning program locally. Over the course of two weeks, participants mastered the program's methodology, explored key project stages, learned about cross-sector collaboration practices between students, NGOs, government agencies, and businesses, and practiced administrative tools using real-world case studies.

The closing ceremony summarized the training results: participants noted a significant increase in competencies, a transformation in their management thinking, and a readiness to launch their own civic initiatives. The final session focused on strategic planning: initial ideas for replicating the program in their regions were presented, and immediate steps to engage students in addressing socially significant issues were outlined. And, of course, there was a pleasant bonus: all graduates received commemorative souvenirs as a symbol of their continued professional and personal development beyond the educational module.

The "Service-Learning" program, launched in September 2023 in over 700 universities and colleges across the country, is being implemented with the support of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh) and the Rosmolodezh.Granty platform. Its goal is to develop socially responsible, patriotically oriented young people by engaging them in real-world projects aimed at developing regions and achieving the national development goals of the Russian Federation through 2030 and 2036.

It is worth noting that our university is one of the program's flagship universities and continues to develop its civic education infrastructure, confirming its status as a leading center for training next-generation management personnel.

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