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Ekaterina Volokitina: “We are creating new materials for Russia’s technological sovereignty”

Ekaterina Volokitina: “We are creating new materials for Russia’s technological sovereignty”

Published on: 2026-04-24

Source: Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University of Peter the Great –

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Dreamed of becoming a ballerina, but became a materials scientist. The new heroine of the “Persona” section is a graduate student at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University of Peter the Great and an engineer at the Russian-Chinese research laboratory “Functional Materials,” Ekaterina Volokitina.

She was born in Novosibirsk, and in childhood dreamed of becoming a cashier at “Pyaterochka” or a ballerina. But after learning about the existence of materials science, she chose it for her future profession and went to conquer Petersburg.

Interview with the Best Graduate Student of 2025, Ekaterina VolokitinaRead on the website of the newspaper “Politician” in the “Persona” section.

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