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Source: State University of Management – Official website of the State –
On April 18, 2025, a ceremonial signing of a cooperation agreement between the State University of Management and the Russian online store Wildberries took place.
On behalf of the State University of Management, the document was signed by the rector of the State University of Management, Vladimir Stroyev. On behalf of the new partner, it was signed by the director of innovation and ecosystem development, Wildberries, Igor Koval.
Also present at the meeting were vice-rectors of the State University of Management Maria Karelina and Pavel Pavlovsky. From Wildberries there were the head of the department for work with educational organizations Yulia Erofeeva, the head of image projects Daria Mudrova, the head of the internship direction Anastasia Avdeeva, the head of the school direction Daria Danilina.
At the beginning of the meeting, Vladimir Stroyev told the guests about the history of GUU. And although there were two graduates of our university among them, it was also new for them to hear that its history began almost 40 years earlier than they knew – with the Aleksandrovsky Commercial School.
“Today we are once again beginning to promote the traditions of domestic entrepreneurship, which were lost in Soviet times. Now few remember that in the Russian Empire there were entire entrepreneurial regions that were exempt from taxes. And the Alexander School was directly connected with many famous representatives of the Moscow merchant class,” the rector said.
Igor Koval immediately admitted that the famous Russian philanthropist Savva Mamontov is his distant relative, and agreed that it would be very logical for the State University of Management to continue the traditions of entrepreneurship. The WB company also sees its mission in the development of Russian entrepreneurship and strives to develop in different directions. Thus, the company recently opened its own production sector.
Continuing the conversation, Vladimir Stroyev said that some Russian companies started their business within the walls of our university. For example, the Novard group of companies, which recently opened an “auditorium named after itself” in the administrative building. In addition, the rector mentioned that our university is the operator of the All-Russian competition of projects in the field of social entrepreneurship and socially oriented non-profit organizations “My Good Business”.
Vice-Rector of the State University of Management Maria Karelina reported fresh news that scientists from our university managed to win the first competition of student design bureaus.
“The grant is not very big, but for us it is first and foremost an ideological victory and an important step to restore the image of a scientific and technical university. No one expected this victory from us. Meanwhile, we have fresh developments in the field of logistics, unmanned aerial vehicles and a large agro-industrial project. All this can be discussed, but it is a long conversation, and I propose to organize a separate meeting with Wildberries technical specialists,” said Maria Karelina.
Vice-Rector of the State University of Management Pavel Pavlovsky added that our scientists are developing not only flying drones, but also ground-based ones. Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov, who visited the university last week, noted this development. Pavel Vladimirovich also noted that few see Wildberries as a high-tech company that provides a huge number of jobs, but this is exactly the case. The State University of Management has already developed a special educational program for the needs of WB, a presentation of which was shown to the guests after the meeting with the management.
Taking the floor again, Maria Karelina informed the guests that the State University of Management has laboratories for reverse engineering, agriculture, and a section on mechanization, where prominent professors and academics work. The university concludes agreements with agricultural universities and plans to create a world-class scientific and methodological center in the field of agro-industrial complex.
Igor Koval admitted that this topic is very interesting to him and he is ready to support it, since in the past he managed several agricultural enterprises.
“Returning to our topic, I want to say that we currently have 5 million square meters of warehouses. We are first in the world in this indicator. The issue of automation is very relevant for us, we are interested in logistics projects, we have our own design bureau for logistics complexes, and the State University of Management can be very useful in this,” the guest said.
At the end of the conversation, Igor Koval invited Vladimir Stroyev to a Wildberries event at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. The partners agreed to coordinate their schedules to implement this idea.
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