Only 95 days left until summer ☀️

If no vitamin D can cure your nostalgia for lush greenery, positive temperatures, and lasting daylight, check out some of the activities in St. Petersburg that will transport you to the sunny season, no matter the weather.

#stp

Career opportunities for international students 💼

We have a new exciting collaboration! We’ll be sharing vacancies picked by the ITMO Career Center specifically for the university’s international community. Here’s our first digest:

Technical Support Specialist (English required)
IT Axolotl
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Support Office Manager (English required)
MTI Technology
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English Teacher
BiG English
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Content Manager (English and Arabic required)
Yandex Taxi
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Development Manager (English required, Africa focus)
Headliner
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Junior HR Researcher (UAE Branch)
Perviy Bit
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Technical Support Operator (Native Hindi speaker)
WISPOS LLC
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Product Manager
Queen Interacrive Games Ltd
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Network Engineer
Servers.com
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React with 👨‍💻 if you’d like to see more job round-ups!

Beat the winter blues with bright art, soulful music, and a dash of vintage charm 🎶

🩰 Tchaikovsky. The Nutcracker. Myaskovsky. Symphony No. 24
• Feb 28 | 8 PM | 500 - 1300 RUB

Step back in time with a WWII-era concert featuring Myaskovsky’s Symphony No. 24 and Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, as performed by the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra and Children’s Choir.

🛍 Intelligent Flea Market
• Mar 1 | 12 - 9 PM | Free

Welcome spring at this fairy tale-themed market, featuring local brands, creative workshops, and delicious treats!

🥞 Maslenitsa in the city
• Mar 2 | round the clock | Free

Celebrate Maslenitsa all across the city with blini, festivities, and more blini!

⚛️ Avant-garde Philosophy
• Mar 3 | 11 AM - 10 PM | Free

Venture into the metaphysical world of Vera Gvildis, where avant-garde meets abstraction through bold shapes and pure colors.

Find more events in our latest weekly guide 👈

#events

Does healthy eating really make a difference? We put it to the test! 🧐

The debate over what’s truly “healthy” has been going on for years, but at ITMO.NEWS, we like to test things firsthand.

We teamed up with Anastasia Antonova, a PhD student in the Faculty of Biotechnologies and the author of the course Introduction to Nutrition Science, to explore food myths, facts, and the real impact of a balanced diet.

Curious about the results? Read the full article here 👈

A week of breakthroughs, new opportunities, and festive treats at ITMO! Here’s what’s happening 👇

🔬 ITMO scientists have developed cost-effective carbon dot-based LEDs, making high-brightness lighting even more accessible.

🎮 Recently, ITMO’s Game Development School launched “Finish the Game” – a program to help budding developers release their first gaming projects.

🚀 ITMO Accelerator 2025 has wrapped up; the top startups secured media investments and new partnerships. Find out who the showstoppers were!

And now, let’s a revisit a few popular posts from this week:

💼 International students can now find exclusive job opportunities through ITMO Career Center’s new vacancy digest. Choose your pick!

🥞 Celebrate Maslenitsa with traditional Russian blini and lots of fun activities. Find this week’s top spots in our latest guide.

#newsdigest

Just a few hours left to join – don’t miss this open lecture! 🚀

The Business Thesis initiative offers all ITMO students the opportunity to develop and defend their own innovative business projects as theses. As part of its international track, a lecture titled “Bicycle, Camera, Diplomacy: An Open Dialogue with the Chief Ambassador of Mexico in Russia,” will be delivered by Eduardo Villegas Mejías, Ambassador of Mexico to the Russian Federation.

🗣 Language of instruction: English

📅 March 3, 6 PM
📍Online via Zoom
🔗 Register here. The link will be sent out one hour before the lecture.

#events

Mark your calendars for two superhit events from ITMO’s Faculty of Physics 🔥

🔬 International Summer Conference on Theoretical Physics (ISCTP)

📅 July 1-4, 2025

Join leading minds for 4 days of plenary lectures, discussions, and poster sessions on:
• Quantum computing and optics
• Atomic, particle, and solid-state physics
• Astrophysics
• …and more!

🎓 School on Quantum Physics and Technologies

📅 July 7-9, 2025

A 3-day intensive school for students and young researchers. Dive deep into:
• Quantum computing and optics
• Vortex particles and strong-field QED
• Highly charged ions and low-dimensional systems

✨ Who can join?

Students (Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD), researchers, and lecturers!

⏳ Application deadline: April 6, 2025
📩 Contact: quantum.week@metalab.ifmo.ru

Don’t miss this chance to explore the future of physics! Register here 👈

#opportunities

i, ѳ, ѵ , ѣ – meet the missing letters of the Russian alphabet 🤐

If you’ve ever come across Russian texts from over a century ago, you likely noticed that the letters look quite different from those we use today.

So, what were the historical events that changed the alphabet? Why did these four letters get lost along the way? Find out in the article 🔎

#russia

SPEAKING CLUB AT YAGODNOYE vol. 4 💚

Join us for a weekend at Yagodnoye in April! 

We'll have:

- plenty of talk in English, Russian, French, German, Spanish and Chinese
- games and fun activities
- debates and role plays
- Movie Night
- campfire songs
- spooky stories and s'mores around a campfire
- stargazing
- memorable experience

Dates: 
April 19-20 (one night)

Price:
Accomodation + transfer: 600 rub (+300 for bed linens - optional)
+ 1000 rub deposit in cash (returned after departure)
The canteen will be closed on those dates, so bring your own food.

Priority will be given to students who regularly attend meetings 🤗