Published on: 2026-06-18
Source: Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University Peter the Great –
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A seminar was held at Polite on the discussion of strategic technological projects within the framework of the University Development Program together with industrial partners — PJSC Gazprom, JSC Gazprombank, and the Center for Technological Leadership.The seminar was attended by the Deputy Chairman of the Board of PJSC Gazprom — Head of the Department Oleg Aksyutin, Deputy Chairman of the Board of JSC Gazprombank Dmitry Zausers, Vice President of JSC Gazprombank Alexey Fyodorov, Executive Vice President Yuri Gudkin, CEO of the Center for Technological Leadership Irina Zhukova, and other company representatives.Partners were presented with the university’s strategic technological projects — the creation of industry technologies for systemic digital engineering based on the CML-Bench® digital platform, scientific and technological foundations for the creation of science-intensive production, repair, and manufacturing of energy engineering parts for civil and special purposes, as well as the creation of engineering AI technologies for solving cross-industry tasks. In addition, within the framework of the seminar, there was a presentation of developments and a pitch session of scientific and technological ideas, in which St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University teams presented their new projects.
The rector of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Andrey Rudskoj, emphasized the significance of the meeting: He is convinced that such synchronization of the university’s activities with the tasks pursued by strategic industrial partners is not only useful but fundamentally necessary for the development of the university.
At the Polytechnic University campus model, Rector Andrey Rudskoy told guests about the history of the university and the development plan. They were also shown key developments of the Polytechnic. Among them — a robotic complex for automating utility tasks in the Arctic region, a lightweight modular robotic complex for conducting hydrographic and search work “Morena”, an unmanned aerial vehicle “Snegir-2”. In addition, the results of the activities were presented by the engineering center “Design, certification and testing of advanced energy sources”, and members of the “Vsejadnye” team spoke about theirachievements in “Robot Wars”and about the robot “Medoed”.
Then there was a pitch session for scientific and technological projects of the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. The chief designer of KNTN-1 “System Digital Engineering,” director of PIS “Digital Engineering” Alexey Borovkov presented a report on the topic: “Creation of industry-specific technologies for system digital engineering based on the digital platform CML-Bench®.” He talked about the implementation of projects within the framework of the “Priority-2030” program and the results obtained in 2025–2026.The team of the advanced engineering school is working on ensuring the superiority of Russian technologies and products over foreign analogues by implementing and developing advanced digital twin technology.
The chief designer of KNTN-2 “Materials, Technologies, Production”, director of the IMMIT SPbPU Anatoly Popovich presented the scientific and technological foundations for creating science-intensive production, repair, and manufacturing of components for power engineering machinery for civil and special purposes. Among the obtained objects and production capabilities is the first 3D-printed blade of a gas turbine in Russia, a injector, a combustion chamber, a nozzle assembly, an installation for manufacturing endoprostheses, an installation for high-temperature layer-by-layer laser synthesis.
The speaker emphasized that at the moment in SPbPU not only the manufacturing or repair of products for the additive installation is implemented, but the transition to the next step is being carried out — the production of unique special equipment. For example, the “Mercury” printer, the installation for electron beam growing, manufactured on order by the State Corporation “Rosatom”, as well as installations for direct laser growing, including unique equipment for the production of endoprostheses.The successes of SPBPU in this field were highly valued by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, as a result of which the provision of a subsidy of about one billion rubles was made for the manufacture of a high-temperature printer. And the next task is scaling up: expanding the equipment park and increasing the range of restored parts.
The report “Development of technology for forming SHALINZA glass lenses” was presented by the director of the NPC “Nanotechnology and Coatings,” head of the applied optics department Alexander Semench. The center’s staff manufacture lenses for infrared optics from thermoplastic chalcogenide glass. The development is necessary for domestic enterprises that produce thermal imaging devices. Scientists have already received and tested a serial prototype product, and have also developed equipment for its production.
The head of the development team of the SPbPU Polytech Voltage Machine, engineer at the Higher School of Transport of IMMIT Vsevolod Gayduk, spoke about the robotic complex for automating utility tasks in the Arctic region. The robot “Snabzhenets” can reduce the operational costs of remote enterprises in performing service tasks by more than four times through minimizing manual labor and automating production processes. The unique hardware and software complex, integrated into a highly cross-country chassis, is designed to operate in harsh climatic conditions.Over the past year, the development team has conducted a series of tests in the northern region of the country and confirmed the system’s operability at temperatures down to -40 °C.
Leading scientist of the Laboratory of Nano- and Microencapsulation of Biologically Active Substances Sergey Shipilovsky presented a report on the topic: “Technologies of artificial intelligence for retrosynthetic analysis of large data arrays (Big Data) of structure-biological activity dependence.” The goal of the project is to create a platform technology based on AI for the search of pharmacophore fragments of biologically active structures and prediction of lead compounds in the therapy of malignant neoplasms.The platform-based technology developed on the basis of AI allows for the selection of the most promising chemical structures of biologically active substances for their subsequent synthesis and preclinical testing.
About the universal diagnostic platform based on CRISPR-Cas for rapid and sensitive detection of pathogens, told Associate Professor of the Higher School of Biotechnology and Food Production, Researcher at the Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology Natalia Morozova. The development of a new type of diagnostic system is a task that cannot be solved quickly, but already at this stage the waiting time to determine the pathogen is estimated at 20 minutes. This is longer than express tests, but three times faster than PCR tests, and at the same time, it is comparable to them in sensitivity.The developed method does not require specialized equipment or highly qualified personnel; a reagent mixture, a sample, and infection detection all occur in a single test tube. To date, proprietary enzyme expression platforms have been created, a laboratory sample of a diagnostic system for detecting SARS-CoV-2 has been obtained, and a diagnostic device for detecting test results is ready.
Representatives of JSC Gazprombank and the Center for Technological Leadership showed serious interest in the projects and developments of the Polytechnic University. The guests asked the speakers many clarifying questions and put forward their proposals for the development of the projects.
All projects made a great impression with their “product-ness.” It is interesting that the university views its activities and scientific developments from the perspective of market demand and a real economic sector, not just as solving scientific problems, noted the General Director of the Center for Technological Leadership Irina Zhukova.
Then representatives of PJSC “Gazprom”, JSC “Gazprombank” and the Center for Technological Leadership visited the Supercomputer Center, leading centers and laboratories of SPbPU.
At the NOC “Gazpromneft-Polite” director of the center Dmitry Bogdanov spoke about the project, competencies, and achievements of the team. Head of the laboratory “Industrial flow data processing systems” of ISH SPbPU Marina Bolsunovskaya talked about the implementation of the project “Digital data analysis platform using hybrid artificial intelligence” on creating the “Polanis” multimodal data analysis platform.
At the Experimental Design Bureau of the Research and Production Association “Digital Engineering” in St. Petersburg, guests were told about the creation of robots and participation in the “Robot Battle” competitions. Aleksey Borovkov noted that work is currently underway to convert robots to autonomous mode using artificial intelligence. Additionally, RPA employees presented their projects in the field of medical engineering and achievements in this sector. Furthermore, partners were informed about the creation of their own two-seater light aircraft, which will later be unmanned.
At the Center for Laser and Additive Technologies of IMMITE, technological complexes developed by specialists from SPbPU were demonstrated, said the Director of the Center Mikhail Kuznetsov.
Presented were:
- A robotic complex for laser welding of thin metal sheets, created for the development and implementation of bipolar laser welding technology of cooling chambers for the production of domestic fuel cell batteries;
- mobile laser surfacing complex “Kochevnik”, designed for performing work on the restoration of large-sized products at the customer’s site;
- A robotic direct laser growth complex on which a centrifugal-type separation module for atomic icebreakers of the “Leader” project was grown;
- Automated hybrid laser-arc welding complex capable of welding metal up to 40 mm in one pass;
- The first complex in Russia for applying porous coatings by laser cladding on the surface of the cups and stems of hip joint endoprostheses, capable of providing production up to 10% of the total Russian volume of endoprostheses.
In addition, guests saw components of gas turbine engines restored by laser and additive technologies.
The director of the Scientific and Educational Center “Mechanical Engineering Technologies and Materials”, Immit Pavel Novikov, conducted a tour of the Scientific and Production Center and spoke about the creation and development of small-scale science-intensive production at the university.
At the conclusion of the meeting, the participants discussed the prospects for the development of projects at the Polytechnic University and the possibility of implementing the developments into actual production.
St. Petersburg Polytechnic is a vivid example of successful work on transferring knowledge to the economy. Here there are many prototyping centers, modern equipment, but the main thing is the burning eyes of young people who know how to build the new economy of the country. In general, the very transformation that is happening today in many universities of the country and ensures the proximity of universities to industry is exactly what we, together with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, are trying to actively facilitate and develop.Universities are sources of knowledge, and this knowledge must inevitably be transformed into products and economic usefulness, shared the Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Gazprombank JSC, Dmitry Zauers.
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