Published on: 2026-08-03
Source: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University –
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When most universities go on vacation and journalists switch to seasonal stories, it seems that summer should be a time of informational lull. July is a month of holidays when news feeds become a bit less saturated. Nevertheless, news about the Polytechnic continues to appear in the media even in the middle of summer — the university continues to generate newsworthy events.
In today’s review — publications about Polytechnic in July: let’s see which events and initiatives of the university attracted media attention in the “off-season”.
First of all, the focus is on university graduates. Today, defending final qualification works in the format of projects is in trend. Thus, “Petersburg Diary” reported on “the Polytechnic students’ project on the restoration of the Pashkov House, carried out as a final qualification work“.
78.ru was attracted by a romantic story: A Polytech graduate received a marriage proposal during the diploma ceremony on Family Day.
The Polytechnic University is not only a higher education institution but also a provider of secondary vocational education. It is to this that a large-scale special project of “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” “Start with Polytech”.
Scientific news of SPbPU also do not pass by this publication. The article “Scientists have found a way to increase the efficiency of heat exchangers without fans” told about a joint study by scientists from Polytech and the A. V. Lykov Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
“Gazeta.Ru” reported on a development at the Polytechnic in the early fire detection hardware-software system, which makes it possible to detect dangerous gases and the onset of a fire at the smoldering stage, that is, before the flame appears.
“Vecherniy Saint Petersburg” took an interest in the event on the international agenda: “Peterburg Polytechnic and the Vietnamese Binh Duong University will open a laboratory for intelligent control systems.”
The month concluded with a series of publications about the successful tests of a fully autonomous snow-clearing robot created at Polytech. This was reported by Kommersant, Komsomolskaya Pravda, “Sobaka.ru”, 78.ru.
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