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PSU joins Summertime Russian 2021 Language Club

23.08.2021 / , , ,

More than 350 international students and applicants joined “Summertime Russian 2021” Language Club – a joint project by Russian universities, held recently online. Yulia Kuznetsova, a teacher of preparatory language courses, Department of International Relations, Perm State University (PSU), was among the tutors to run Club sessions.

More than 350 people from around the world registered to participate in the Club, to mention Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, China, Congo, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nepal, UK, USA, Senegal, Thailand, Zambia, and more.

Language classes were held twice a week for 1,5 hours for groups of 10-15 people, using the ZOOM platform. The participants practiced Russian language in live communication on a variety of topics, including cinema, sports, social networks, travel, pandemic and healthy lifestyle. Special attention was drawn to Russian culture, traditions, national cuisine and folklore.

“We managed to bring together completely different people in terms of training level and age. My classes, for instance, have been attended by students from 25 to 50 years old. There is a noticeable interest in the Russian language, culture and history. Although most of the participants have never been to Russia, most of them learnt about our country from books and films,”

confirms Yulia Kuznetsova.

“The group communication format has proved to be useful and effective. It was nice to notice the participants overcoming their language barrier by the end of our sessions – as they used the proposed vocabulary and enjoyed interacting in Russian. I believe a practice of summer conversational clubs for international students might be implemented at Perm State University,”

shares Yulia Kuznetsova.

“Summertime Russian 2021” Language Club has been organized through the “Russian Universities-as-Exporters” network, for the second time this year. The Club classes have been run by teachers from 11 Russian universities who are a part of the partnership:

PSU Scholars Reveal Their Mission in a Newly Published Divers Thriller

20.08.2021 / , , , , ,

The Unbound Publishing has published a documentary thriller on divers exploring underwater caves, with a reference to scientists of Perm State University. The book by Mark Cowan and Martin Robson is titled “Between the Devil and the Deep: One Man’s Battle to Beat the Bends” and holds 448 pages of a drama which happened in the South of Russia, a challenge which took years to understand and explore. The book, released on 22 July, 2021, mentions the names of scholars from Perm State University (PSU, Russia).

“Deep underwater lurks a mysterious man-made illness. It has gone by many names over the years – Satan’s disease, diver’s palsy, the chokes,” the book promo states. – the phenomenon known today as a decompression sickness, or the “bends”. Robert Kurson, a columnist for the New York Times and bestselling author of the “Shadow Divers” claims the new book to be “one of the best accounts ever written of deep-water diving and its staggering, haunting dangers”.

In the winter 2012, Robson, along with Perm scientists, took part in an expedition to the Blue Lake in Kabardino-Balkaria, to the South of Russia. The goal of the mission was to discover an underwater cave system, hitherto hidden from human eyes. The Blue Lake, called by the locals as the Jin’s Jug, is a combination of two unique objects – a karst spring and a karst mine. The origin of the reservoir is not completely clear: a river constantly flows out of the Blue Lake, yet nothing visibly flows into it. The challenge served a start for a closer investigation.

Researchers from Perm State University have been exploring lakes for a hundred years, already, since the start of the University in 1916. Perm Territory has water reservoirs of a similar type, albeit less deep. Their close study and proven practices allow PSU experts to enter international research projects and conduct an expert assessment of similar objects in Russia and worldwide, hence their appearance in a book by Mark Cowan and Martin Robson.

“Why explore the lake?” comments Professor Nikolay Maksimovich, Deputy Director for Science, Natural Science Institute, PSU, Associate Professor of the Department of Hydrology and Protection of Water Resources, Head of Laboratory of Geology of Technogenic Processes. “From a common point of view, the research is important in order to understand the origin of the lake, its evolution, and protect it. Any data on such phenomena expand the horizons of our knowledge about the structure of the Earth. The research of this kind is often initiated or accompanied by divers.”

A layer of cold water at depths of about 100 m (328 ft) allowed Professor Maksimovich to suggest the source of the flow was hidden somewhere there. During the expedition, the famous Russian diver Andrei Rodionov died in search of flow tunnels. It was to him that Martin Robson dedicated his final dive in the lake. Tragically, as Robson returned from the deepest dive of 209 m (685 ft) the disaster struck: just seventy-five feet down, he was ambushed by the bends.

Robson knew that if he continued up to the surface he would probably die before help arrived. Instead, he sank back into the cold water, with electric heating batteries discharged, gambling on an underwater practice most doctors believe is a suicidal act. Soon the only hope he had of saving his life would rest in the hands of a dramatic mercy mission organized at the highest levels of the Russian government.

Between the Devil and the Deep is believed to be the first book to tell the terrifying true story of what it feels like to get the bends, taking you inside the body and mind of a man who suffered the unthinkable. Writer Mark Cowan also explores the grimly fascinating history of decompression sickness, the science behind what causes the disease, and the stories of the forgotten divers who pushed the limits of physical endurance to help find a solution. Albeit the human progress, science is still accompanied by risk, yet it is within our effort to bring it to the minimum, PSU scholars suggest.

Info about the Book:
Between the Devil and the Deep: One Man’s Battle to Beat the Bends
by Mark Cowan (Author), Martin Robson (Author)
Publisher: Unbound
ISBN: 9781800180291
Number of pages: 448
Dimensions: 240 x 159 mm
Hardcover – 22 July 2021

PSU Programmers Enter International Contest Finals

20.08.2021 / , , ,

Do people in science love sports and competitions? How programmers make money? Are they capable of international acclaim? Let’s take a closer look at what our folks from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics do!

A team from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, PSU will take part in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Championship Finals. The leading PSU team called Bagels consists of 3 students – Alexander Tsaplin, Dmitry Sidorenko and Dmitry Buzmakov.

In 2019, the Bagels took 17th place in the World Championship semifinals. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the competition was postponed. The organizers are now planning to host the finals in October 2021.

At the competitions, the students are required to write a program code to solve complex algorithmic problems and hone teamwork skills within limited resources and time: a computer and a set of tasks that need to be solved in 5 hours.

“Programming contests help students gain the skill to write programs quickly and efficiently. The more of them take part in the competition, the more qualified graduates come out of the University. Our team is among the Top 10 Russian universities participating in the finals, which obviously means our the students receive a decent level of educational training,”

says Andrey Kuznetsov, Dean of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, PSU.

More than 130 teams will take part in the competition. 10 Russian universities, including Moscow State University (MSU), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), St. Petersburg State University, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Novosibirsk State University (NSU), Innopolis University will take part in the finals.

“The Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, PSU has been participating in the qualifying rounds of the World Programming Championship for many years, and we always strive to get to the finals. Now that we are actively training our team, raising a competitive spirit for the autumn tournament,”

comments Mikhail Lizunov, coach of the Bagels team.

The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is an annual multi-tiered competitive programming competition among the universities of the world. Headquartered at Baylor University, the ICPC operates autonomous regional contests covering six continents culminating in a global World Finals every year.

The ICPC provides gifted students with opportunities to interact, demonstrate, and improve their teamwork, programming, and problem-solving prowess. It serves as a global platform for academia, industry, and community to assist the next generation of computing professionals.

PSU Scholar Shares her Vision of Digital Humanities

17.08.2021 / , , , ,

What will future historians study? Nadezhda Povroznik, Head of the Center for Digital Humanities at Perm State University shares her passion to virtual museums, unveils understanding of digital humanities, recollects international opportunities in this direction and shares hints on writing the first textbook on web history, nationally!

“What is digital humanities?” – Nadezhda sets the story pace. “This is the question which still raises much debate in the scientific community, and there is no single answer to it. In a broad sense, digital humanities is the use of information technology in relation to humanities, with a different and broader attitude”.

“My colleague Andrey Volodin, associate professor at Moscow State University, once defined digital humanities a love marriage between these two words. Dr. Manfred Thaler, Professor of Computer Science for the Humanities, University of Cologne also said: “It doesn’t matter the way you call it, yet it is passion you put in it, which matters. I do believe it’s true,” comments Nadezhda Povroznik.

At the present moment, Nadezhda is writing a first textbook on web history in Russia, as part of a grant from the Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation, developing a new course for a master’s degree in web history.

“Unfortunately, the only large web archiving project in Russia is connected with the preservation of official data by government bodies. Obviously, this is not enough. The historians of today need to understand what they will have to keep for the future. The Internet data is quite vulnerable: if it is not saved, then it is irretrievably lost,” says Nadezhda. To answer the question, she has initiated a new master’s course “Web History of Society and its Institutions”, for the academic year 2022/2023.

Nadezhda Povroznik’s favorite area of activity is the research in virtual museums, encouraged and acclaimed by the European scientific community. Since 2017, Nadezhda has been actively working to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of the collections of the Museum of History of Perm University. She was also invited as an expert to a large international project of Virtual Multimodal Museum.

“One of the main advantages of a digital museum vs a real museum is the possibility of an exposition extension and expansion of geographical limits. In addition, any interested visitor may enjoy the opportunity of viewing the exhibit close and from all sides. This is probably the most appealing charm of an electronic collections over a virtual one”.

In 2019, Nadezhda Povroznik completed an internship as a visiting specialist at the C2DH Center for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg. There, she researched the digital history of virtual museums – the way they grow, change content, increase functionality and resolve task. As a result, she created a project website, dedicated to her research.

As a result, an Nadezhda was invited to the editorial board of the Journal of Digital History, published by one of the largest academic publishing houses in Western Europe, De Gruyter. Most recently, at a meeting of the Advisory Board, Nadezhda Povroznik was unanimously elected as a co-chairman of Centernet, an organization that unites DH centers globally, as a part of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).

Nadezhda Povroznik was running research in digital humanities, since 2003. While still a student, she took a course in historical informatics and decided to participate in the International Conference by the History and Computer Russian Association. She won the first place in the competition for young scientists and decided to keep on going in that direction.

“I was quite a modest student, back in the days. Yet, when I realized I could attend international conferences for a symbolic student fee, without thinking twice, I found myself on a bus from Moscow to Netherlands,” says Nadezhda Povroznik. “That particular trip gave me the opportunity to build a network of professional connections. I met wonderful, fantastic people, to mention Dr. Manfred Thaler, professor at the University of Cologne, or Dr. Ingo Kropach, the star of historical information science. Furthermore and on, I was lucky to fruitfully collaborate with them”. Today, Nadezhda Povroznik holds the position of a Deputy Dean for Science at the Faculty of History and Political Science, Perm State University (PSU), an associate professor of the Department of Interdisciplinary Historical Research, as well as runs the Center for Digital Humanities and the Laboratory of Historical and Political Informatics, PSU. “Now, as we are living in the age of inter-, trans- and cross-disciplinary research, and the most amazing things happen at its borders and beyond,” Nasezhda sums up.

See Russian Countryside with PSU Alumni in Journalism!

16.08.2021

Alsou Kasimova, a graduate in Journalism, Perm State University, has started her own video channel “My Country Home”. Today, she has published her first video, titled “Homecoming in a Summer Fairy Tale”.

“I have been thinking about creating my own channel on rural aesthetics for a long time,” Alsou confirms. “This year, I have graduated the Faculty of Philology, and decided to arrange my last summer vacation. So, it seems like a right moment for the start, for I have enough time and strive for it.”

“For me, summer is always associated with childhood. Probably, every summer vacation I visited my grandmother’s village. Even now, as an adult, I still have this thrill of returning to my homeland,” Alsou recollects.

Built over 60 years ago, Alsou’s family house is located in a far Russian village of Yuski, in the Udmurt Republic. Alsou’s grandmother has been living in that house almost her life. The family has a little farm and a garden, four sheep, a flock of chickens, five cats and a dog.

“My favorite place in our house is the summer room. This is my sanctuary, a place that fully fits my aesthetic,” Alsou says. “My channel will talk about life in a country home. If you, like me, being in the city, miss nature and countryside, then here you can enjoy this atmosphere!”

Alsou plans to promote her project, and maybe turn it into business someday. For now, she sees it as a chance to improve her shooting and story-telling skills. Interested in Russian language and country life? Learn cats’ and dog’s names, which Alsou mentions in her video:

Myshka = Mouse;
Plusha = Bun, or Fluffy (depends on a context);
Knopochka = Snappy, or Girlie (homonyms in Russian);
Kolobok = Roly-Poly;
Barsik = Tigger, or Panther Cub;
Druzhok = Friend.

“Addressing the foreign audience, I would like to tell my native citizens how village life could be colorful and full of sense, showing it in a positive, aesthetical way,” Alsou confesses. “I was also thinking, if Russian and Udmurt words could be of an interest to our audience.”

To remind, the Faculty of Philology at Perm State University, teaches various professions, to mention brand managers, journalists, press-secretaries, producers, copyrighters, TV- and radio staff, librarians, teachers of Russian, philologists, publishers, content managers, speech and script writers, bloggers.

First Graduates in Pharmacy Exit PSU

13.08.2021 / , , ,

The first group of pharmacists has graduated from Perm State University (PSU), where they learned how to develop, manufacture and register new medical products, analyze drugs and draw up a business plan for a private pharmaceutical enterprise.

Graduates of the Faculty of Chemistry build further careers as drug production technologists, researchers in pharmacology, pharmacists, as well as work in forensic and medical examination centers. Some of the students have started working while studying at the University.

“While studying, our students passed an internship at the Medisorb (Медисорб) JSC Pharmaceutical Company, a great place to drill skills for future specialists. Local pharmacies and pharmaceutical production also served as worthy placements,”

admits Pyotr Mashchenko, Acting Head, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Faculty of Chemistry, PSU.

Recently, the Faculty has opened applications for 14 budget (state-funded) and contract 60 (private paid) places in Pharmacy. Applications are due to 18 August, 2021.

PSU Alumnus Gets a PhD in Russian, Teaches at a Chinese University

11.08.2021 / , , , , ,

What do you become after the University? Yin Jiejie (China), our alumnus from the Faculty of Philology, talks about the reason he had chosen education in Russia, his achievements and discoveries during the student years, and his prospects after the graduation.

A passion to literature might be one’s pass to a university – Russian and Chinese, in Jiejie’s case. To compare them, he decided to study in Russia. “I was eager to see your country, meet Russian people, experience your culture and raise the language level,” confirms Yin Jiejie. “I also heard much about the beauty of Russian women.”

Jiejie had chosen Linguistics and Literary Studies as primary subjects. “To be honest, I’ve never heard of Perm before. A friend of mine recommended Perm State University, as she used to study here,” Jiejie recollects. “I remember my first steps on campus as a touch of a centenary history. Each building has its own story, resembling wisemen. I also liked the university sculptures. Most importantly, I received a scholarship by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. “

Russian writers Viktor Astafiev and Valentin Rasputin, widely known in China, served a research source for Jiejie, who studied ‘ethical space’ of their novels. During his spare time, Jiejie worked as a Chinese language teacher and translator, and was also engaged in arts and sports. He danced during performances at the PSU Student Club, and played basketball with the University team. In the countryside, Jiejie learned to take a steam bath, cook Russian dishes, and skate.

Recently, Jiejie teaches at one of the universities in China. “Russian education helped me find a reliable and respected job back home. I teach the Russian language, which I love, at Shandong Women’s University,” he comments. “Staying with students makes you feel young, task-oriented and learn new things.”

Today, a greater amount of foreign students at Perm State University come from China, followed by those from Iraq and Turkmenistan – choosing the Faculty of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, the Faculty of Philology, and Chemistry, as a primary choice.

Study at PSU for Free!

10.08.2021 /

Ever thought of changing your profession or getting a new education? Looking forward to study at a Russian university, for free? Know Russian language good enough to start it now? Here is your chance! 

Perm State University (PSU) has started accepting applications to the Open University. Schoolchildren across the country will be able to undergo in-depth training at PSU in four subjects: biology, geography, history and social studies. The studies will go both on campus and online at the start of a new academic year. Applications are open until 30 August, 2021.

Of the four subjects run by PSU, applicants may choose only one. The training will take place at the faculties of Biology, Geography, History and Political Science, Economics, and Law. The program is designed for 300 participants of 10-11 grade. Two training formats are available: an in-depth program, or a free listener.

“Program participants will be able to act like real students. The in-depth training format supposes weekly classes, laboratory research, workshops, project management, participation in contests, professional tests and internships, as well as business contacts and an outreach session “Holidays with PSU”,

says Olga Maksyutenko, Head of the Applicants and Alumni Department, PSU.

Free listeners will mostly use the online format, solving complex problems, preparing for exams, attending open lectures and workshops.

To study at the Open University, fill in an application and attach a scan of a school certificate or an extract of annual grades for the 10th year of study. The grade in the leading subject of study must marked as “good”, the lowest. In case the applicant’s score is below that, he/she can provide a letter of recommendation from a teacher in the subject that he/she intends to study.

In addition, it is required to record a video business card and explain the applicant’s intention to become a member of the Open University, and the results expected, as an attachment to application. The admission to the Open University by PSU is due to 30 August. Classes will be held twice a week and start in the last decades of September, 2001.

You can apply here.

The project is being implemented with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Perm krai.

Perm Summer School Gathers Leading Experts in Ecology and Climate Change

09.08.2021

Perm Summer School ‘2021 in Climate, Impact and Blockchains has taken place in Perm, Russia.

This year, the Schools ‘program has been tightly linked to international and Russian ‘carbon agenda’ – from regulating CO2 emissions, carbon credits and markets as mechanisms for solving climate problems, to reforestation projects worldwide, as well as companies’ strategies for sustainable development and reduction of carbon footprint. The sessions schedule included a webinar by Kasper Kupperman, founder and CEO of the Green Branch, dedicated to implementing a reforestation project in Brazil.

“For European countries and business, environmental issues are more an investment, than just a news case, or charity. Reducing environmental impact is the new international economic standard. Companies are switching to renewable energy sources, recycling waste environmentally, counting CO2 emissions and recompensing negative consequences. A year ago, as we started our project in Austria, we could hardly imagine any ‘carbon agenda’ in Russia. Yet, today it is on the SPIEF and the front pages of the main media. We have talked about the importance of such change and its origins at our summer school,”

says Sergey Ivliev, head of the Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain Systems Lab, Perm State National Research University.

Perm Summer School (PSS) is designed as a networking event for young entrepreneurs and professionals, graduate and post graduate students in tech, finance and impact. The school’s comprehensive program covers latest empirical researches, theoretical models, and industry best.

In 2021, the school’s teachers were Alexey Lobanov, Director of the Banking Regulation Department, Bank of Russia; Elena Angell, Global CSR Manager, Gartner; Maria Pukalchik, SkolTech; Vladimir Golubyatnikov, founder of the ProClimate telegram channel; Alexander Kedrov, Deputy Director, Center for Space Technologies and Services.

The School took place at Belyy Bereg, Shemeti, Perm krai, Russia, a beautiful countryside, true of Russia, corresponding to the School’s topic.  

“We pick up picturesque places in Perm region, Russia, as venues of PSS so that the school participants and teachers could concentrate on sharing and learning and truly enjoy the company and the nature,”

the event team shares.

The event was run by the Cryptoeconomics Lab at Perm State University, and Vlinder Climate. Partners and participants included Skyori, Accredify, Democracy Earth, Upala, Teleport, Trustlines, Lykke, IVS, Ariel University, Vienna Graduate School of Finance, LetItPlay, University of Nicosia, SONM, Moscow State University,  National Research University Higher School of Economics.

Picture by Kirill Kozlov and Perm Summer School’21.

PSU Scholar Announced Best at International Conference in Belarus

16.07.2021 / , , , , ,

Anna Perminova, a PSU researcher from the Natural Science Institute, has presented her report, announced best, at the International Conference “Geographic Aspects of Sustainable Development of Regions” at Gomel State University (Belarus). Overall, there have been presented a total of 127 reports by 200 authors from Belarus, Germany, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine.

Researchers from the Laboratory of Biogeochemistry of Technogenic Landscapes, PSU, presented reports on transformation of the natural environment and rational use of natural resources, drawing the examples of the Verkhnekamskoye salt deposit, a local to Perm terrotory. Anna Perminova was supported by Elena Khairulina, head of the laboratory, and Natalia Mitrakova, senior researcher.

Among many research spheres, the Conference covered the problems of engineering geology, hydrogeology, geophysics; regularities of transformation of ecological functions of geospheres in large mining regions; the rational use of natural resources and environmental protection. The 4th International Scientific and Research Conference “Geographic Aspects of Sustainable Development of Regions” was organized by the Faculty of Geology and Geography, F. Skorina Gomel State University; Voronezh State University; the Russian House in Gomel and the Gomel Department of the Belarusian Geographical Society.

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