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Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –
Representatives of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, headed by Deputy Director General for Human Resources Tatyana Terentyeva, visited the Polytechnic University on a working visit. The company is interested in expanding cooperation with the Polytechnic in many areas, especially in the field of personnel training and employment of graduates at its enterprises. These topics were discussed at a meeting with the Polytechnic leadership and during an acquaintance with its research base.
The visit began with a ceremonial presentation of Rosatom awards to the polytechnicians.
“The Polytechnic University and the State Corporation Rosatom have developed not just business-like, but warm and friendly relations,” Vitaly Sergeev, First Vice-Rector of SPbPU, greeted the guests. “Of course, this is our strategic partner, with whom we work in many areas, both scientific and educational. And it is especially pleasant to begin our meeting with the ceremonial part, with the presentation of awards from the state corporation.”
Before the ceremony, Tatyana Terentyeva addressed the Polytechnic representatives: Rosatom is a global participant in the world energy market. We have big common tasks – both the formation of fourth-generation nuclear energy, increasing the share of nuclear energy in Russia to 25 percent, and the preparation of the future nuclear elite for our international partners. So the program of our further strategic cooperation will be expanded.
After welcoming remarks, Tatyana Anatolyevna presented awards to the Polytechnic University teachers and staff. For significant personal contribution to the development of international scientific and educational cooperation and training of personnel for the nuclear industry, the Director of the Higher School of Nuclear and Thermal Energy of the Institute of Power Engineering Alexander Kalyutik was awarded the 2nd degree “Academician I. V. Kurchatov” badge of distinction.
Honorary certificates of the Rosatom State Corporation were awarded to: Vice-Rector for International Activities Dmitry Arsenyev, Director of the Higher School of Power Engineering of the Institute of Power Engineering Alena Aleshina, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Nuclear and Thermal Energy of the Institute of Power Engineering Irina Paramonova and Head of the International Education Department Evgeniya Satalkina.
The following received gratitude from the Director General of Rosatom: Associate Professor of the Higher School of Nuclear and Thermal Energy of the Institute of Power Engineering Irina Anikin, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Technosphere Safety of the Civil Engineering Institute Anton Byzov, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Nuclear and Thermal Energy of the Institute of Power Engineering Yaroslav Vladimirov, Leading Specialist of the Higher School of Nuclear and Thermal Energy of the Institute of Power Engineering Natalia Donmez, Professor of the Higher School of Power Engineering of the Institute of Power Engineering Alexander Zharkovsky and Leading Specialist of the Higher School of Advanced Digital Technologies of the PIS “Digital Engineering” Maxim Konyushin.
Having congratulated his colleagues on their well-deserved awards, Vitaly Sergeev proposed discussing further cooperation between the university and the state corporation, handing over the floor to vice-rectors Alexey Borovkov and Dmitry Arsenyev, as well as institute directors Anatoly Popovich and Viktor Barskov.
Vice-Rector for Digital Transformation of SPbPU, Head of the Advanced Engineering School of SPbPU “Digital Engineering” Alexey Borovkov presented the results of cooperation with the State Corporation Rosatom. He noted the scale of cooperation, covering about 20 years, and highlighted the key achievements, events and developments implemented jointly with the corporation’s enterprises and organizations.
The Rosatom State Corporation is a strategic partner of the Advanced Engineering School of SPbPU “Digital Engineering”. It is important to emphasize that out of 22 high-tech partner companies of the school, seven Rosatom divisions supported the creation and development of the SPbPU Advanced Engineering School program with letters of guarantee for co-financing at the start of the federal project, – noted Alexey Borovkov.
Alexey Ivanovich also spoke about systemic interaction with Rosatom divisions. Joint projects with the corporation’s organizations and enterprises are aimed at solving urgent engineering problems of the nuclear industry and industry of Russia, training a new generation of engineers with world-class competencies, as well as developing scientific, technological and educational infrastructure.
Every year, the structural divisions of the SPbPU Ecosystem of Technological Development carry out dozens of orders for Rosatom enterprises, including: Centrotech-Engineering, TVEL, TsKBM, NIKIET, NIIgrafit, PO Mayak, Prepreg-SKM, ITER-Center, Proryv, RFNC-VNIIEF, OKBM Afrikantov, etc. The total cost of the completed research and development work exceeds 660 million rubles.
The speaker noted that training engineering personnel in the interests of Rosatom is one of the key areas of activity of the Advanced Engineering School of SPbPU “Digital Engineering”. As part of cooperation with the state corporation, the Advanced Engineering School of SPbPU implements educational programs aimed at developing students’ competencies that meet the modern challenges of the nuclear industry. Among the master’s programs created in the interests of the enterprises of the leading nuclear industry are “Digital Engineering in Nuclear and Fusion Energy” (program partners: JSC Atomstroyexport (management company of the engineering division of the State Corporation Rosatom), JSC NIKIET (an enterprise of the State Corporation Rosatom), A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences), “Digital Engineering of the Main Technological Equipment of Hydrogen Technologies and New-Generation Energy Systems” (program partner: JSC TsKBM, part of the mechanical engineering division of Rosatom), “System Digital Engineering in Nuclear Engineering” (program partner: TVEL Fuel Company of the State Corporation Rosatom).
For students and engineers of the Advanced Engineering School of SPbPU “Digital Engineering”, a scientific and technological educational infrastructure is being actively created together with industrial partners of the nuclear industry: the “TVEL – SPbPU” space, the engineering center for the design of pumping equipment “TsKBM – Polytech”, the laboratories of “Polymer Composite Materials” (Composite Division of Rosatom) and complex developments of the main equipment of chemical-technological and energy systems of the new generation – in cooperation with JSC “TsKBM”. These initiatives allow students and young professionals to work on modern equipment, participate in real projects and research, and develop the skills necessary for successful work in high-tech industries.
Vice-Rector for International Affairs Dmitry Arsenyev focused on the issues of training personnel for the energy sector of foreign countries. Polytechnic has been teaching foreign students for over 60 years. Currently, 5,000 people from 107 countries are studying in the main educational programs. Dmitry Germanovich noted that 54 educational programs relate to the profile of Rosatom, including 10 in English.
“We started cooperating with Rosatom to train personnel for foreign countries in 2013,” said Dmitry Arsenyev. “The largest project is the graduation of specialists for the Turkish nuclear power plant Akkuyu Nuclear. From 2015 to 2023, we trained 96 people, including 72 masters. We actively participate in the state corporation’s programs for teaching the Russian language.”
Dmitry Arsenyev noted the interesting train-the-trainers supplementary education program, which has already been completed by 63 people, mentioned winter and summer schools and presented the experience of the Polytechnic University as a coordinator Russian-African Network University.
Dmitry Germanovich proposed to continue developing the train-the-trainers program, to intensify the targeted admission of foreign students to study at SPbPU through the State Corporation Rosatom, to create a representative office of SPbPU on the territory of ObninskTech to develop network interaction, to develop international educational programs for African countries taking into account the needs of Rosatom and to involve RAFU in their promotion.
Director of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Transport Anatoly Popovich structured his report in such a way as to draw attention to the target setting for technological leadership.
“When we talk about technological leadership, we must not forget that these are technologies of the future,” he emphasized. “We have chosen additive technologies. The Polytechnic University has created an end-to-end cycle – from obtaining powders to quality control of products. The Polytechnic University was the first of Russia’s technical universities to switch to low-tonnage, science-intensive production of complex objects.”
Anatoly Anatolyevich named the main achievements of IMMiT in the field of additive technologies, presented the results of the implementation of technologies in combination with equipment, and spoke about what engineers manufacture according to orders from enterprises, including Rosatom. For example, in 2020, Polytechnic University won a mega-grant from Rosatom State Corporation to create new materials and products based on shape memory alloys with a controlled structure and piezoelectric ceramics using additive 4D technologies for the state corporation.
The director of the Institute, Viktor Barskov, spoke about the interaction of the Institute of Power Engineering, the State Corporation Rosatom and the Rosenergoatom Concern. He listed the specialists and areas in which the Polytechnic prepares for the thermal and electric power industry, covering almost all the needs of the industry. At the same time, Viktor Valentinovich noted that there is a need to change the approach to the existing education model so that Rostec is properly represented in SPbPU.
“For the modern education model, when we talk about engineers, designers, constructors, a special approach is needed. The labor market is overheated, if the enterprise wants to receive highly qualified personnel ready to work without additional retraining and investments, it is necessary to change the model of interaction with universities and students,” says Viktor Valentinovich. “We have a basic department of the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant “Nuclear Energy”, it operates according to the old scheme: students do practical training at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant, and the company’s specialists give lectures at the university. However, now students are very demanding, it is necessary to have a close connection with the enterprise, so that familiarization with production begins not with practical training in the third year, but directly from school, so that already interested schoolchildren enter the Polytechnic. In addition to practical training and lectures, students from the first year must study in specialized classrooms, engage in creativity in coworkings, use the company’s software, that is, absorb information about it in the process of learning and student life. It is necessary to restart and reformat the basic department of “Nuclear Energy” so that work with students is carried out more intensively.”
Viktor Barskov also proposed expanding scholarship programs.
The speech was concluded by the head of the Rosatom student community at SPbPU, a 5th-year student majoring in Nuclear Reactors and Materials, Victoria Chernova. She said that their cell has 45 activists who work with schoolchildren and applicants, participate in fairs for first-year students and youth career forums, strategy sessions, and visit Rosatom enterprises. In 2025, they plan to participate in events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the nuclear industry.
In the TVN building of the Higher School of Nuclear and Thermal Energy, Rosatom representatives visited the branded information space of Rosenergoatom Concern (LNPP) and the software and hardware complex “Virtual Power Unit of the NPP”, which will be launched into the educational process in September. The simulator was developed by Atomenergoproekt, it can be used to simulate various operating modes of the power unit, including emergency ones, and to perform calculations for scientific research.
The guests got acquainted with the capabilities of some advanced spaces of the SPbPU PISh “Digital Engineering”. Tatyana Terentyeva talked to students who are working on projects in the interests of the Fuel Division inscientific and technological educational space “TVEL – SPbPU”.
In addition, Tatyana Anatolyevna visited laboratory for integrated development of basic equipment for chemical-technological and energy systems new generation, the opening of which took place on February 25, 2025 with the participation of representatives of JSC TsKBM.
The creation of advanced scientific and technological platforms in cooperation with Rosatom enterprises is an important step in training personnel for the nuclear industry. We see how students and young specialists are actively involved in solving complex problems, which allows them not only to gain knowledge, but also to immediately apply it in practice, – emphasized Tatyana Terentyeva.
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