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The 2025 season of international education exhibitions concluded with the participation of a delegation from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in the ninth exhibition and presentation of Russian education, "Study in Russia!", held in Kazakhstan.

The event served as a platform for dialogue with prospective students and their parents. Over the course of two days, the exhibition attracted over 3,500 visitors. The exhibit featured 43 leading universities from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, and other Russian cities. The Polytechnic University's booth generated considerable interest among guests, attracting hundreds of prospective students who learned about the opportunities offered by studying at one of the country's top technical universities.

Anastasia Prokopchuk, Deputy Head of the International Education Department, and Evgenia Borodina, Specialist of the International Educational Programs and Academic Mobility Department, held individual consultations over two days. They provided detailed information about the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs, admission requirements, campus housing, and employment prospects. They placed particular emphasis on the application process under the Russian Government quota and opportunities for compatriots.

The most popular educational fields among applicants were construction, software engineering and applied computer science, applied mathematics and physics, electrical power engineering and mechanical engineering, design, as well as management and business informatics.

Motivated applicants with clear questions attended the exhibition, which significantly increased the effectiveness of our work. "We not only answered hundreds of questions but also collected the contacts of interested students, which will allow us to support them throughout the admissions process," noted Anastasia Prokopchuk.

Participation in the "Study in Russia!" exhibition allowed the Polytechnic to strengthen its position in the Kazakhstani educational market, establish direct contact with its target audience, and analyze the needs of prospective students to further improve its career guidance services.

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Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) celebrated the grand opening of a renovated educational space for the "Power Machines — Polytech" student design bureau (SDB), a key component of the SDB "Systems Engineering" ecosystem. The project is being implemented as part of a strategic partnership between the Polytechnic University and Power Machines, providing practice-oriented training for engineers in the high-tech industry. The "Power Machines — Polytech" student design bureau was established in 2020. The space will become a focal point for students involved in real-world engineering and research projects in power engineering.

The Special Design Bureau "Power Machines – Polytechnic" accepts students from the Institute of Energy, the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Materials, and Transport, the Physical-Mechanical Institute, the Institute of Computer Science and Cybersecurity, and the SPbPU "Digital Engineering" vocational school. To work at the Special Design Bureau, students undergo a selection process aimed at building a promising talent pool for Power Machines. Students can begin their careers with the company while still undergraduates.

During their collaboration, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University and Power Machines have implemented other new formats for training future engineers. They organized the educational project "Power Machines Trajectory," which won the 2024 All-Russian Competition for Best Practices in Youth Employment in the "Partnership in Developing Professional Competencies" category. They also host Power Machines Youth Days and the "Energy of Youth" scientific and practical conference. In 2025, work was completed to revive the "Engineering and Management of Electric Power Facilities" program. Students in the master's program gain knowledge and skills in electrical machines and potentially become engineers, designers, and testers at the Electrosila plant (part of Power Machines). This dual-degree program, in addition to core disciplines, teaches the fundamentals of project management and production economics, broadening the professional horizons of future specialists.

Representatives from Power Machines and SPbPU participated in the opening ceremony of the educational space. Guests were introduced to the capabilities of the Scientific and Engineering Center for Advanced Electrical Insulation Systems, where students and young researchers conduct computational and experimental work, participate in R&D, and master modern methods for testing and modeling power machine components.

Particular attention was paid to the demonstration of laboratory equipment and experimental setups, where students test insulating materials, study electrical and thermal aging processes, and investigate vibratory arc discharges and the mechanical properties of samples. This is the only laboratory among Russian universities dedicated to the study of electrical insulating materials and structures. Work in the laboratories is carried out according to technical specifications from Power Machines engineering.

In addition to extensive research and development, we collaborate with the Polytechnic University to create conditions for students to seamlessly transition from their studies to professional careers. This year, we launched a new student design bureau for electrical insulation and a targeted master's program in electrical machines. These programs allow students to participate in the full equipment development cycle—from concept and calculations to implementation in high-tech production. This fosters the modern engineering thinking of future specialists, which ultimately contributes to the development of our country's engineering potential, emphasized Alexander Ivanovsky, General Designer of Power Machines.

The renovated SKB space features student workstations, where they use the same software suites as engineers and designers at Power Machines. The students explained the training format at SKB Power Machines – Polytech and the tasks they are working on.

"The development of student design bureaus is one of the Polytechnic's priorities," noted Maxim Pasholikov, SPbPU Vice-Rector for Information, Youth Policy, and Security. "Joint projects with industrial partners, such as Power Machines, allow us to build a practice-oriented, seamless training program for engineers and create an environment in which education is directly linked to the real-world challenges of the country's economic and technological development."

Summing up the visit, university and company representatives emphasized that SKB Power Machines – Polytech exemplifies the effective integration of education, science, and industry. This collaboration helps train sought-after engineers, build the industry's talent pool, and engage students in solving pressing technological challenges already during their studies.

The Specialized Design Bureau "Power Machines – Polytechnic" is an important element of the University Development Program, integrating education, project work, and research into a single trajectory. Furthermore, the Specialized Design Bureau format allows the university to flexibly respond to the needs of high-tech industries and train specialists to meet current challenges. "It's important to note that we are building a unified chain, permeating all levels of education, from school design bureaus to student design bureaus, including secondary vocational education, and this chain culminates in design bureaus at high-tech industrial enterprises," commented Oleg Rozhdestvensky, Head of the SPbPU Office of Technological Leadership.

The educational space of the SKB "Power Machines – Polytech" will become a platform for expanding joint scientific research and developing new areas of training for industry specialists capable of addressing technological leadership challenges.

In April 2025, the student design bureau "System Engineering" won the Student Design Bureau Competition of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation in the "Student Design Leadership" category, receiving a subsidy from the federal budget.

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On December 25, 1941, the Soviet Navy's Kerch-Feodosia Operation began. It was the Red Army's largest amphibious operation of the Great Patriotic War.

The main goal was to create conditions for further actions to defeat enemy troops in Crimea, and the immediate goal was to stop the enemy troops’ offensive on Sevastopol and eliminate the threat of their invasion of the Caucasus through the Taman Peninsula.

Battles for Crimea

The battle for Crimea began in late September 1941. On September 26, units of the Wehrmacht's 11th Army broke through the fortifications of the Perekop Isthmus and entered the peninsula. The remnants of the 51st Army retreated to Kerch and by November 16 were evacuated to Kuban. The only remaining pocket of resistance was the Sevastopol defensive region. The Wehrmacht's attempt to take Sevastopol on the move between October 30 and November 21, 1941, failed. To continue the siege of Sevastopol, Erich von Manstein, commander of the 11th Army, concentrated the majority of his available forces near the city, leaving only one infantry division to cover the Kerch area.

The Soviet command decided to take advantage of the opportunity to take revenge for the abandonment of Kerch and divert enemy forces from capturing Sevastopol.

The beginning of the landing

The operation began on the evening of December 25, but a violent storm struck during the night, scattering the ships and tearing down some of the fencing on the Tuzla ravine. It seemed the landing was doomed to failure, but the heroic efforts of the Soviet soldiers ultimately succeeded. Under a hail of bullets, exploding shells, and mortar shells, the paratroopers leaped into the icy water and reached the shore, where their uniforms turned into a crust of ice. On average, 57 out of every 100 paratroopers perished that day.

At dawn on December 26, despite a storm, landing forces were launched on the northern and eastern shores of the Kerch Peninsula. Troops were landed simultaneously at several points to deprive the enemy of the ability to maneuver its reserves and pin them down in all key areas. Having overcome enemy resistance, the landing forces consolidated their positions on the shore and, throughout December 27–28, repelled numerous enemy attacks aimed at driving them back into the sea.

On December 29, the landing of troops began in Feodosia under the cover of artillery fire, and by evening our soldiers had captured the port and the northern part of the city.

On December 30, German aircraft spent the entire day attacking Soviet ships in the port of Feodosia, where they had not yet had time to transport air defense systems.

On December 30-31, having withstood an enemy counterattack, a second echelon of troops landed in the port, after which our troops launched a general offensive from the Kerch and Feodosia region.

German retreat

The Soviet landing force in Kerch was vastly superior to the Wehrmacht forces in the area. Furthermore, the landing in Feodosia threatened encirclement, so Lieutenant General von Sponeck, commander of the 42nd Corps, immediately ordered a retreat. Later, an order was received from the commander of the Crimean operation, von Manstein, commander of the 11th Army, to hold the defense, but it was no longer possible to carry it out. The German forces retreated, thus avoiding encirclement, but abandoned all their heavy weapons. For formally violating the order, von Sponeck was removed from command and court-martialed.

Results of the operation

On January 2, 1942, the Kerch Peninsula was liberated, where three Soviet armies were subsequently concentrated and the Crimean Front was created.

In January 1942, Sevastopol was saved and received several months of respite, but Soviet and German troops faced a new stage of the struggle for Crimea, which was only fully liberated in 1944.

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