On January 25, 1941 the Leningrad Aviation Institute (LAI) was founded on the former premises of the Leningrad Road Institute (Gastello Street, 15) by the Decree of the Soviet Government. 1200 students were enrolled in three faculties of Aircraft Construction, Instrumentation and Motor Building. During the Great Patriotic War the Institute operated an aircraft and tank repair shop. While some of the students and the faculty standing for the city, the LAI was evacuated.
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History and Philosophy will traditionally hold the annual conference “Philosophy and Culture of Information Society”.
The Eighth session of the conference will take place on November 20-22, presided by the Rector of SUAI Yulia Antokhina.
This year the conference will be held online for the first time. However, it attracts more and more participants every year. 155 authors from Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Armenia, Azerbaijan and dozens of Russian universities and other institutions have sent their abstracts.
The growing geographical spread of the conference reflects the increase in understanding information society problems, with many methods and solutions being provided. SUAI has become an international platform for discussing challenges of modern world.
The conference proceeding will be published in the near future.
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Russia-Mexico Week: Connections
November 9-13, 2020 SUAI will hold a science and practice workshop called Russia-Mexico Week: connections to commemorate the 130th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mexico and Russia. The online program of the event will include speeches by the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Mexico in Russia Norma Berta Pensado Moreno and the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Russia in Mexico Viktor Coronelli.
The workshop will listen to reports by diplomacy, higher education and media dealing with Russian-Mexican international relations, followed with discussions on bilateral contacts, politics, culture, art and economy of the two countries.
Students and faculty are invited to attend the workshop daily on above mentioned dates from 16 to 17:30 P.M.
Working language: Spanish, Russian (occasionally).
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88903793333?pwd=K3NJTDMwOWIwVDY5aDdIcGM0SWpqUT09
Conference ID: 889 0379 3333
Password: 754230
See the program below:
Program (DOCX)MTS Systems Corporation unites leading technical universities to launch an educational program. The project enables students with an opportunity to work on power-efficient devices development, while professors will be able to get a consultation-evaluation from MTS experts.
MTS handed SUAI 25 sets for developing Power-efficient IoT devices and quick comprehension of NB-IoT principles due to the open code, open platform and Arduino compatibility. The sets included plenty of electronic equipment to be located at SUAI’s IoT Engineering laboratory.
SUAI’s Rector Yulia Antokhina was glad to start a joint project with MTS, a leading telecommunication company in Russia.
February 8th marks the Day of Russian Science. The day is chosen to comply with the Russian Academy of Sciences anniversary, celebrated since 1999. Events popularizing scientific knowledge and granting outstanding scientists are planned for today. The Minister of Science and Education of the Russian Federation Valery Falkov gave a speech to congratulate science workers and enthusiasts, students, teachers, professors and researchers.
SUAI appreciates importance of such days promoting Russian science and research activities and congratulates its staff and partners.
February 4th, 2021 a webinar within the Export of Education Federal Project took place to discuss educational process organization during spring semester. SUAI’s Vice-Rector for International Affairs Konstantin Losev met his colleagues from leading Russian universities, sharing experience on how to organize international activities under risk of the pandemic.
The participants analyzed Chinese universities’ experience and talked on migration policies and educational issues resulting in a better plan of organization for all the universities. Over 300 experts from Russian universities, the Ministry of Science and Education and the Migration Services took part in the meeting.
January 25th, Russian students’ day, SUAI celebrated its 80th birthday during a mass online-translation for students, graduates, staff, partners and eminent guests.
The day will launch a range of anniversary events starting with congratulation speeches by the Rector Yulia Antokhina and by famous visitors. Successful graduates, city and region administration, aviation and aerospace engineers, cosmonauts joine the event to speak during the broadcast.
The web chat was filled with warm greetings and support by those, whose biography has been closely tied with our university. Yulia Antokhina gave presentation for the visitors speaking about recent achievements in training, facilities and project making.
In a week, on Juanuary 25th, 2021 SUAI will celebrate its 80th anniversary. The guests of the meeting will see a whole range of events on SUAI’s history, innovations and potential, starting at 14:00 online.
Administration, faculty, students and all the partners of the University are welcome to join the broadcast - https://vk.com/video-122496494_456239372.
The program includes speeches by the Rector Yulia Antokhina, the Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov, the ex-Governor of St.Petersburg, SUAI’s graduate, Georgy Poltavchenko, ROSCOSMOS Director General Dmitry Rogozin and other eminent guests from government, industry and SUAI’s Council Board.
We are looking forward to seeing everyone on January 25th at 14:00.
The year 2020 brought much success to SUAI in what concerns WorldSkills and FutureSkills initiatives: we saw launch of new competences, national and international competition victories and growth of respect within the WorldSkills community.
An important last year’s achievement was a successful accreditation of SUAI as a head center of Space System Engineering competences in the Northwest of Russia.
Starting from December 30, 2020 the University will now hold a Young Professionals (WorldSkills Russia) certificate. This accreditation certifies that SUAI uses high-standard equipment and technologies to train experts and estimate knowledge.
Dear students, teaching staff and administration colleagues from SUAI,
The last night of the year always brings miracles crossing out all the trouble in the past year. Thus grants us with a possibility to live, work and create from the start. The year to come has 365 pages and hopefully each one will be filled with bright and positive events and glorious achievements.
Let your dearest people be with you during the holidays to share warmth and joy of the New Year miracles for the whole year. I wish you and your beloved kindness, love and wealth.
December 15-17, 2020 joint efforts by SUAI and the Northwest Center of Strategic Development elaborated the program on introduction of project making and training factories principles in education. SUAI’s Rector Yulia Antokhina introduced these principles for the University in order to enhance professional competences.
Training factories are a key instrument in education development within modern concepts of didactics and methodology of education. They increase possibilities to solve lack of experts in advanced industrial technologies.
Russian and international speakers were invited to speak on experience in creating training factories together with partners from industry willing to upgrade the processes required.
The universal program for universities and colleges is elaborated by order of the St. Petersburg administration, with 60 participants to successfully complete it during the 3 days.
December 14, 2020 the Second Forum by Association of Russian and Belorussian Universities took place online seeing speeches by the Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Valery Falkov and the Minister of Education of the Republic of Belarus Igor Karpenko. SUAI’s Vice-Rector of International Affairs Konstantin Losev participated in the Forum to meet university leaders and internationalists from both countries.
In the Forum the participants talked on higher education potential of the countries, digitalization of studies and academic exchange during the pandemic.
After the plenary session the Forum was divided into sections for deeper discussions of bilateral cooperation in culture, education, youth policies, science and technologies, based on the long-term historical heritage shared by Russia and Belarus.
December 11, 2020 SUAI’s Vice-Rector for International Activities Konstantin Losev participated in the 2020 Silk Road International Symposium on the Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education, Research and Application of Aeronautics and Astronautics, held by BRAIA.
Uniting Aerospace universities and industries from all over the world, BRAIA promotes such cooperation for scientific and commercial benefit by means of ensuring continuous and industry-based higher education.
In the session, the participants discussed joint research issues, but also heard a series of reports on advanced aerospace technologies.
For decades, SUAI graduates — leading designers, chief engineers, heads of large industrial enterprises — have been shaping the aircraft, the space and the instrumentation engineering.
- Georgy Poltavchenko
The Ex-Governor of St. Petersburg,
graduate of the SUAI Institute of Aerospace Instruments and Systems