News:
Meeting of the student section of ISA SUAI
On March 13, 2024, the regular meeting of the ISA SUAI student section was held. The meeting was chaired by the head of the student section - Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Innovation and Integrated Quality Systems, Honorary Member of ISA Alexander Valerievich Chabanenko. Members of the section discussed work plans to prepare for participation in the 77th International Sudents’ Science Conference SUAI and in the Twentieth Competition for the best scientific work of ISA students from the European region, Middle East, African region and Pakistan (SPC-2024).
President of the Russian Federation Grants.
10 SUAI master's degree students received grants from the President of the Russian Federation. Among the awardees is the 1st year graduate student Maria Belova, a member of the ISA student section of SUAI. Only those master degree students whose data are included in the state information resource on persons who have shown outstanding abilities can apply for grants.
Another gift to the knowledge center.
Professor Yulia Anatolyevna Antokhina (Rector of SUAI, President of the Russian St. Petersburg ISA Section in 2014) presented her book on Technologies for Flexible Management of Innovative Projects in the Higher Education System published in 2023 to the ISA Knowledge Center.
On January 1, 2024, Alexander Fedotovich Kryachko (Head of the department of radio engineering and optoelectronic complexes of SUAI, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor) assumed the post of President of the Russian St. Petersburg Section of ISA. Graduate student of the Department of Higher Mathematics and Mechanics of SUA Maria Dmitrievna Rassykhaeva assumed the position of President of the student section of ISA SUAI.
Holiday wishes from ISA
RoboticsSkills competitions in SUAI.
From December 11 to December 15, the Russian Robotics Week was held at the PetroCongress Center. The complex of congress and exhibition events included the International Robotics Forum with the participation of leading industry experts, student competitions "RoboticsSkills", seminars and workshops.
In the showroom of the NIT DDD on October, 25st was held the XIX Webinar on Project
Management by the Honorary Doctor of the SUAI Gerald Cockrell (President of ISA 2008). The students, teachers and post-graduate students of the SUAI are the main participants. Over the years more than 500 students have taken part in the workshop, the classes are held in English and will last until May, 2024. Students who successfully complete the course will receive certificates.
Another gift to the Knowledge Center
Active members of the Russian St. Petersburg ISA Section Alexander Fedotovich Kryachko and Sergey Vladimirovich Michurin presented the book Physical and Technical Fundamentals of Wave Flow Processing in MOEMS Devices published in 2023 as a gift to the ISA Knowledge Center: textbook / S.N. Arkhipov [et al.]. - St. Petersburg: POLYTECHNIC PRESS, 2023. – 196 p.
Meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Automation Society (ISA) of EMEA region & Pakistan in Doha, Qatar.
From September 25 to 27, 2023, the first after the Covid-19 pandemic full-time meeting of the ISA EMEA&Pakistan Executive Committee and the Automation Сonference 2023. Digitalization in Oil & Gas Industry took place in Doha (Qatar). The International Automation Society is an internationally recognized authoritative professional organization that defines industrial standards in the field of automation, which make it possible to systematize and unify equipment control systems and improve the safety of their use. ISA was established in 1945 and unites more than 45,000 members from more than 110 countries.
The professional St. Petersburg Russian ISA section and the SUAI ISA Student section were created on the basis of our university in 1995 and are successfully operating. The meeting of the Executive Committee was attended by Bobovich Alexander Vladimirovich - Chief Specialist of the SUAI UCR, member of the Executive Committee of ISA EMEA&Pakistan, ISA Senior Fellow Life member, and Chabanenko Alexander Valerievich - Ph.D., Associate Professor of the SUAI Department of Innovation and Integrated Quality Systems, head of the SUAI Student section of ISA, ISA senior member.
The participants of the meeting of the Executive Committee of ISA EMEA&Pakistan discussed the issues of ISA development and work plans for the coming period. Among the important points included in the ISA EMEA&Pakistan long-term work plan is the activation of international student activity: the XX International Competition for the best scientific work of students (XX ISA EMEA&Pakistan SPC- 2024), the organization and holding of the First international student competitions in Saudi Arabia, and the resumption of international Student Games.
Annual meeting of the SUAI ISA Student Section
On September 18, 2023, SUAI hosted the annual meeting of the ISA Student Section of SUAI. The meeting was held by the head of the student section Alexander V. Chabanenko, Honorary Member of ISA, PhD, Associate Professor of the Department of Innovation and Integrated Quality Systems. The members of the section discussed the work plan for the 2023/2024 academic year, as well as the participation of students in the 20th anniversary ISA competition for the best student scientific work in the European, Middle East and African region (ESPC-2024). At the meeting, the elections of the section's leadership for 2024 were held. Maria Dmitrievna Rassyhayeva, a postgraduate student of the Department of Innovation and Integrated Quality Systems, was elected as the President of the section, and a master degree student Kazadio Daniele Francesovich became secretary of the section - both are winners of the international ESPC-2023 Competition.
Members of the ISA student section of SUAI, SUAI students Daria Shchukina and Sergey Nenashev became winners of the President of the Russian Federation Scholarship. The winners of the President and the Government of Russia Scholarships are students who have high achievements in studies and research, are winners of regional, all-Russian and international Olympiads and competitions, authors of discoveries, scientific inventions and articles.
Active members of the Russian St. Petersburg ISA Section Yulia A. Antokhina, Anatoly A. Ovodenko and Alexander F. Kryachko presented their textbook "Physical and Technical Fundamentals of Customs and Aviation Security" (St. Petersburg: POLYTECH-PRESS, 2022. – 333 p.) published in 2022, to the ISA Knowledge Center.
A SUAI student's project took 17th place in the All-Russian ranking of the TOP 1000 university startups.
The All-Russian rating of the TOP 1000 university startups is formed as part of the implementation of the Platform of University Technological Entrepreneurship Federal Project. This rating contains the most promising university startup projects in such technological areas as digital technologies, new devices and intelligent manufacturing technologies, medicine, chemical technologies and new materials, resource-saving energy, creative industries and biotechnologies. The startup project on Smart vision by Sergey Nenashev, a student of the Department of Computing Systems and Networks of SUAI, president of the ISA SUAI student section, took 17th place in the ranking. The project is dedicated to the development of a software product in the field of operational aviation and intelligent monitoring in disaster and emergency zones.
The uniqueness of the product lies in the implementation of a specialized monitoring method using information channels from heterogeneous location sources, – says the author of the project – Such large amounts of information will require the development of theoretical and applied methods for integrating data into one information field in order to obtain detailed and reliable information about the state of the observed surfaces and objects. This will allow us to develop highly reliable algorithms for assessing the state of observed objects and territories.
On March, 10 the opening ceremony of the training and research laboratory for the design of small spacecrafts (SSC) took place at the SUAI. As well SUAI held an exhibition of students developments and unique scientific installations. The honorary guests of the event were Yuri Borisov, Director General of the State Corporation Roscosmos, and Vladimir Knyaginin, Vice Governor of St. Petersburg. The ceremony attended active members of the Russian St. Petersburg section of the ISA: Yulia Antokhina, Igor Pavlov, Nikolai Mayorov, Alexei Rabin, Sergey Solyony.
The exhibition of scientific achievements of the university became an opportunity to show developments in the field of unmanned aerial systems and flying robotics. The NORBI orbital experiment, a prototype of a planetary rover for testing onboard networks, as well as a unique scientific installation based on the SpaceWire automated network modeling and design system were presented. The guests had an opportunity to see a prototype of the rover, created by students, its chassis can be controlled from a smartphone, and the robotic arm will allow to work out a number of tasks. As culmination was an important event for the university - the opening of a teaching and research laboratory for the design of small spacecrafts (SSC).
-The laboratory will become a new point of growth for our university, - said Nikolai Mayorov, Director of the Institute of Aerospace Instruments and Systems of the SUAI. - It is planned to conduct both laboratory classes and applied research in the field of on-board systems of small spacecraft. The laboratory equipment will be used to gain work experience and prepare team student projects for the launch of educational satellites, participation in the SiriusSat-3U Kosmostroy competition and in the educational programs of Roscosmos for support, development and launch of Russian educational satellites Universat.
The new laboratory is equipped with educational kits SiriusSat-3U and OrbiCraft 3D compatible with the Orbicraft-Pro platform, which have the same architecture as real spacecraft. The kit includes VHF transceivers that allow to send and receive information via the VHF channel, in which most of the "cubesats" operate.
– The opening of the laboratory for the design of small spacecraft at the SUAI will contribute to the expansion of the position of the Russian Federation in the space industry, – said Yulia Antokhina, rector of the SUAI. – Today, creating the ICA is more than relevant. Work in this field has been carried out at our university for a long time, so today's event is really very important. After all, here students and graduates of the SUAI will have the opportunity to prepare their own projects related to the assembly of functional models of spacecraft.
The guest of honor of the opening ceremony Yuri Borisov, Director General of the State Corporation Roscosmos, congratulated the university staff on the important event and noted that the direction that the laboratory will develop is in great demand today.
On the Day of Russian Science, a scientific complex of the Institute of Cyber-Physical Systems was opened at the SUAI
An opening of a scientific complex for Institute of Cyber-Physical Systems took place in the Day of Russian Science at State University of Aerospace Instrumentation.
‘Today, the updated Department of Technical Systems Management of the Institute of Cyber-Physical Systems was opened. Undoubtedly, the SUAI development program until 2030 contributed to the acceleration of the introduction of new audiences into the educational process, as well as the relevance of the main specialties of the department's training for such areas of the Priority 2030 program as Aerospace, Instrument Engineering, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence. It is very symbolic that the SUAI received a new scientific and educational space on the Day of Russian science, I congratulate all employees, faculty and students - this is likely to implement at a decent level the field of training specialists in the field of automatic control systems and electronics already in the new academic semester’, — noted by the Rector of the SUAI, the St. Petersburg Russian Section of the ISA in 2014, Professor Yu. A. Antokhina.
The institute has the following grounds: an auditorium for lectures and practical classes; two computer classes with demonstration rooms are supposed to be used for practical and laboratory classes; several laboratories equipped with educational and laboratory complexes, such as:
• laboratory of microprocessor technology, equipped with NI ELVIS II hardware and software systems, consisting of workstations with replaceable reference panels, which have the functionality of the most commonly used laboratory instruments;
• laboratory of actuators of automatic control and occurrence of drives for studying and testing on actuators of automatic control systems and electric drives of alternating and direct current;
• theory of automatic control laboratory, equipped with laboratory complexes for the study of individual elements of the ACS, and the operation of control systems in general;
• laboratory of electronics equipped with workstations with removable panels that allow to research typical distinctive individual components separately and as part of multi-stage circuits.
‘Now students can carry out not only works related to the implementation of the curriculum at research complexes, but also conduct research works, which results can be used at partner enterprises. Starting from the second year of study, SUAI students will work not only with simulation equipment, but also with real devices,’- said SUAI Vice-Rector for Educational Technologies and Innovation, Director of the SUAI Institute of Cyber-Physical Systems, an active member of the St. Petersburg Russian Section of ISA Professor V. F. Shishlakov.
The complex opening ceremony was attended by active members of the St. Petersburg Russian section of the ISA - I.A. Pavlov, G. Yu. Peshkova, S. V. Solyony, N. N. Mayorov, A. V. Bobovich.
New arrivals to the ISA Knowledge Center
A well-known specialist in the field of power electronics and electric drivers, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Electromechanics and Robotics SUAI Martynov Alexander A. donated to the ISA Knowledge Center a book published in 2022: Systems and Devices for Energy Supply of Underwater Robots and Apparatuses: text book/ A.A. Martynov.-St. Petersburg: GUAP, 2022. -132 p.
Starting from January 1, 2023, Nikolay Nikolaevich Mayorov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Director of the SUAI Institute of Aerospace Instruments and Systems, has assumed the post of President of the St. Petersburg Russian Section of the ISA.
All-Russian Forum of Startup Workshops
On November 28th and 29th the All-Russian Forum of Startup Workshops was held in Moscow.
The talking point was the effective ways to develop technology entrepreneurship in the university environment. The All-Russian Forum of Startup Workshops is the first large-scale event of the federal project University Technology Entrepreneurship Platform.
As well the program included an open meeting of the startup workshops investment committee, the best cases on working with startup projects at universities and presentations of the 50 best projects – the winners of the Student Startup contest.
The forum was attended by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko, Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Valery Falkov, Director of the North-West Center for Strategic Research Marina Lipetskaya and Vice President for Grants and Expertise of the Skolkovo Foundation as well. An advisor to the Director General of the Innovation Promotion Fund Ivan Bortnik welcomed the participants of the top 50 pitch session.
SUAI was represented at the forum by Master of the Institute of Information Technologies and Programming Sergey Nenashev (president-elect of the student section of the ISA SUAI). After an intensive two-day preparation of the pitch, Sergey made a presentation to the experts with the project Airborne Monitoring System. As a result, the project received the approval of experts, requests from potential partners and investors.
In the showroom of the NIT DDD on November, 21st was held the XVIII Webinar on Project Management by the Honorary Doctor of the SUAI Gerald Cockrell (President of ISA 2008). The students, teachers and post-graduate students of the SUAI are the main participants. Over the years about 500 students have taken part in the workshop, the classes are held in English and will last until May, 2023. Students who successfully complete the course will receive certificates.
Onу More Gift to the Knowledge Center. Active members of the St. Petersburg Section of ISA: Director of the Institute of Aerospace Instrumentation and Systems of the SUAI (Elect President of the Russian St. Petersburg Section of ISA) Mayorov Nikolai N. and postgraduate student of the SUAI (President of the SUAI Student Section of the ISA) Dobrovolskaya Angelina A., presented to the knowledge center ISA textbook published in 2022 - Theory of Transport Processes and Systems. Ferry Routes and Sea Passenger Ports: textbook / A.A. Dobrovolskaya, N.N. Mayorov, V.A. Fetisov. - St. Petersburg: GUAP, 2022. - 99 p.
Members of SUAI ISA Student Section, SUAI student Maria Belova and PhD student Evgeny Grigoriev became Laureates of the President of the Russian Federation Scholarships. The laureates of the Scholarships are students who have high achievements in studies and science, winners of regional, all-Russian and international Olympiads and competitions, authors of discoveries, scientific inventions and articles.
SUAI Rector receives the Medal of the Order of Merit for Country of the II Degree.
On May 18, 2022, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on awarding Russian Federation state awards.
SUAI Rector Yulia Anatolyevna Antokhina was awarded the Medal of the Order of Merit for Country of the II Degree for merits in scientific and pedagogical activity, training of qualified specialists and many years of conscientious work.
The Medal of the Order of Merit for Country of the II Degree is awarded to citizens for merits and distinctions in various manufacturing sectors, construction, science, education, healthcare, culture, transport and other fields of labor activity.
Congratulations to our Rector!
Awards of the Government of St. Petersburg.
By Order of the Committee on Science and Higher Education No. 74 dated 04/27/2022, the Government of St. Petersburg gave awards for outstanding achievements in the field of higher education and secondary vocational education in 2022. Among the winners are: Igor Pavlov, SUAI Vice-Rector for Administrative Work and Security, President of the Russian St. Petersburg Section of ISA 2008, in the nomination in “Organizational solutions to improve the quality of training of specialists”, for his work on "Digitalization – backbone the way to improve the quality of administrative and information and educational activities of the technical university"; Alexander V. Chabanenko, Associate Professor of the SUAI Department of Innovation and Integrated Quality Systems, an active member of the Russian St. Petersburg ISA Section, in the nomination "Educational and methodological support of the educational process aimed at improving the quality of training specialists", for educational and methodological support of educational activities based on artificial intelligence technologies and digital metrology; Alexander Fedotovich Kryachko, Head of the Department of Radio Engineering and Optoelectronic Complexes, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, active member of the Russian St. Petersburg ISA Section, in the nomination "Electrical and Radio Engineering, Electronics and Information Technologies" (A.S. Popov Award), for his work in the field of applied electrodynamics, analysis and development of aerospace telemetry, communication and control radio systems control information systems.
On April 18, Professor Gerald Cockrell (USA), President of ISA 2008, Honorary Doctor of SUAI, took part in the final lesson of the online Seminar on Project Management in the SUAI NIT showroom. Professor Cockrell has held the Seminar for the 17th time. Over the years, about five hundred students, graduate students, teachers of SUAI and members of ISA Regular and Student Sections took part in it. Traditionally, the director of SUAI Institute of Entrepreneurship Technologies Budagov Artur Surenovich presented certificates on behalf of Professor Cockrell to the Seminar participants who successfully completed the program.
On March 17, in St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI) the innovative Laboratory of Cognitive Research was opened. The new division will allow to create neuroavatars of people that will speak many foreign languages, to track the emotional perception of various content and even identify fakes or signs of manipulation in it. The opening of the laboratory was prepared for about two years. We prepared the premises, ordered the necessary equipment, made up curricula, passed through approval processes. The opening of the Laboratory was attended not only by representatives of the university administration, but also by partners - the president of the Eurasian League of Subtitles Elena Konotopova and the head of RedCarpetStudio Natalia Ivanova-Dostoevskaya. Together with the Eurasian League of Subtitlers, the Laboratory will test the standards for subtitling programs and series and analyze the perception of audiovisual works. And together with the partner Red Carpet, they will test animated works. In addition, there are requests for the use of VR technologies in education and AR technologies in archival work, as well as proposals regarding the adaptation of museums for people with special sensory needs.
- Cognitive research provides the basis for modeling the learning processes of artificial intelligence. We will not be able to teach it without knowing how a human learns. If we do not understand how the information of consumers of this artificial intelligence is perceived, then this will be an absolutely alien thing for us. In the laboratory, we create a “human-machine” interface. With the help of programs, a person can control the cursor with a glance, interact with various devices of a smart home. Secondly - thought control: with the help of a certain complex we can explore the processes of concentration. To create a new level of training, we have a VR camera, a VR helmet and other equipment. Thanks to this, we will not only shoot, not only edit, but also know how and where a person looks in a VR environment,- shared Alexey Kozulyaev, head of the Cognitive Research Laboratory, CEO and co-owner of RuFilms LLC and RuFilms Group of companies.
The researchers have at their disposal equipment for a full cycle of testing the perception of creative graphic, audiovisual and Internet materials, as well as for creating, testing and cognitive adjustment of the perception of educational and artistic VR materials. With its help, the university will be able to carry out a wide variety of projects within the framework of grants and cooperation with industry partners, as well as conduct training in cognitive science and experimental cognitive science. More than half of the Laboratory's software solutions are domestic, and now they are working on developing their own analogues for the remaining part. The Laboratory is being created within the framework of the "Cognitive research and optimization of neurocognitive and other human-machine interaction interfaces" strategic project under the Priority 2030 program together with the Eurasian League of Subtitles. The following members of the Russian St. Petersburg Section of the International Society of Automation (ISA) take a great part in the organization of the Laboratory: Professor Yulia Anatolyevna Antokhina (SUAI Rector), Associate Professor Sergey Valentinovich Solenyi (Director of SUAI Engineering School), Professor Vladislav Fedorovich Shishlakov (SUAI Vice-rector).
On March 4, the IV International Forum "Metrological support of Innovative technologies" was held in SUAI. The Forum was attended by over 350 specialists from Russia, from scientific communities of Indian K.R. Mangalam University, Auezov South Kazakhstan State University, Kazakh University of Railway Transport and Karaganda Industrial University. The opening of the Forum was attended by the SUAI Rector Yulia Antokhina, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Metrological Academy of the Russian Federation Vladimir Okrepilov, Director of SUAI FTTI Institute Elena Frolova. In 2022, the Forum brought together traditional scientific areas, such as "The Economics of Metrology. Digital transformation of metrology", "Information and measurement systems in instrumentation and radio electronics", "Metrological support of weapons and military equipment", "Standardization and quality management". New sections were also formed, the appearance of which is dictated by modern realities: "Metrology and global problems of modernity", "New standards", "Youth Section" and others. The Forum was supported by: UNESCO Chair of Pedagogy of the A. I. Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University, UNESCO Department of Management of the quality of education in the interest of sustainable development Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, as well as the SUAI UNESCO Chair of Distance Education in Engineering. The main goal of these chairs is to spread the best international and Russian experience in training highly competent specialists. Other partners of the Forum in 2022 were the Department of Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Mitytoyo company, the Institute of Regional Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the K.R. Mangalam University Indian scientific community and the Mendeleev VNIIM. The Forum is constantly supported by the Metrological Academy of the Russian Federation. Active members of the Russian St. Petersburg Section of ISA took a great part in the organization and holding of the Forum: Yulia Anatolyevna Antokhina (SUAI Rector), Anatoly Arkadyevich Ovodenko (SUAI President), Elena Alexandrovna Frolova (Director of the SUAI Institute of Fundamental Training and Technological Innovations).
On January 31, the annual meeting of the ISA Presidium of the Russian Federation was held at
the
ISA headquarters in the Russian Federation. At the meeting, which was led by the SUAI
Rector,
President of the Russian Section of ISA 2014, Doctor of Economics, Professor Yulia
Anatolyevna
Antokhina and Head of the ISA Office in the Russian Federation, SUAI President, Doctor of
Technical Sciences, Professor Anatoly Arkadyevich Ovodenko, with a report on the work done
in
2021, the president of the section 2021, SUAI Vice-rector for the development of the
university
complex, Doctor of Economics, Professor Galina Peshkova. Her activities as President were
approved by the members of the Presidium. Then the President of the Russian Section of ISA
2022,
Director of the SUAI Institute of Information Systems and Information Protection, Doctor of
Technical Sciences, Professor Andrey Mikhailovich Tyurlikov made a speech with a work plan
for
2022. On behalf of the ISA Executive Committee, the Head of the ISA Office in the Russian
Federation, Professor A.A. Ovodenko, presented G.Y. Peshkova with a special badge of the
past-president. Since January 1, Nikolay Nikolaevich Mayorov, Doctor of Technical Sciences,
Director of the SUAI Institute of Aerospace Instruments and Systems, has been elected to the
post of President-Secretary.
On New Year's Eve, the Russian St. Petersburg ISA Section received numerous greetings and
congratulations from colleagues from Russia, Australia, Brazil, Great Britain, Ireland,
Spain,
Italy, Canada, USA, France. University centers such as MIT and Indiana State University
(USA),
the University of Catania and the Kore University of Enna (Italy), the University of
Valladolid
(Spain) are traditionally among those who congratulated the Russian section of the ISA.
Alexandra Mikhailovna Melnichenko, a member of the Russian St. Petersburg Section of ISA,
Dean
of the Faculty of Additional Professional Education, Associate Professor, took part in a
meeting
of the Public Council under the Ministry of Digital Development of Russia, at which the
Minister
of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation
Maksut
I. Shadaev made a report "On priority areas of activity and tasks of the Ministry of Digital
Development of Russia". The meeting was held on December 20 in Moscow.
On December 17, the All-Russian final of the BRICS Youth Championship was held in Moscow
with the support of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship on Sustainable
Development. During the Championship, students of the BRICS countries universities were able
to present their vision in solving the problems of sustainable development within the
framework of the BRICS area, form the necessary communications, meet with opinion leaders
and get answers to their questions. Students with different levels of training (from
bachelor's to master's degree) participating in the Сhampionship study in various fields:
innovation, quality management, metrology. The Championship was attended by the "Po#Beda"
team of the Institute of Fundamental Training and Technological Innovations of the St.
Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation - the champions of the GMC Cup of
St. Petersburg, consisting of students-members of the SUAI ISA student section: Marina
Shmeleva, Lidia Klimochkina, Daniele Kazadio, Maria Rassyhaeva. The team leader is an active
member of the Russian St. Petersburg ISA section, Associate Professor of the Department of
Innovation and Integrated Quality Systems Alexander V. Chabanenko.
An Industrial Robotics Laboratory has been created in SUAI. In it, students get real skills
working with robots, learn how to program them, control the process of welding, palletizing
and milling. A new educational unit of the university is functioning on the basis of the
SUAI Engineering School with the scientific and methodological support of the SUAI Institute
of Innovative Technologies in Electromechanics and Robotics. The laboratory is equipped with
modern hardware and software – powerful computers and KUKA industrial robots, as well as
high-performance servers. This equipment will allow SUAI students not only to program and
develop digital counterparts of industrial robots necessary to improve the efficiency of the
educational process or develop the ideas of their startups, but also to test the developed
digital models of their projects. It is planned to open an authorized KUKA educational
center on the basis of the laboratory. This will allow graduates to have three diplomas: the
main one with a bachelor's or master's degree and two additional ones - on the competence of
FutureSkills and on studying at an authorized KUKA center. In combination with advanced
software and innovative control systems, the laboratory plans to develop customized
solutions for automation of production processes for enterprises, attracting the best
students and postgraduates. The laboratory will take an active part in preparing students
for various FutureSkills, WorldSkills, DigitalSkills championships and professional skill
competitions among specialists of the largest domestic enterprises on the example of the
annual WorldSkills Hi-Tech championship. The members of the Russian St. Petersburg ISA
Section Yu.A. Antokhina, SUAI Rector, A.A. Ovodenko, SUAI President, V.F. Shishlakov, SUAI
Vice-rector, S.V. Solioniy, Director of the SUAI Engineering School, actively participate in
the creation of the laboratory.
New arrivals to ISA SUAI Knowledge Center
Active members of the Russian St. Petersburg section of the ISA Antokhina Yu.A., Ovodenko
A.A., Solyoniy S.V., Budagov A.S., Mayorov N.N. presented the following educational and
methodological manuals published in 2021as a gift to the ISA Knowledge Center in the Russian
Federation:
1. Methods of artificial intelligence in electromechanics and robotics. Authors: Yu.A.
Antokhina, A.A. Ovodenko, S.V. Soleny, G.I.Korol, E.A. Frolov.
2. Methods of artificial intelligence in management. Authors: Yu.A. Antokhina, A.A.
Ovodenko, A.S. Budagov, M.L. Krichevsky, Yu.A. Martynov.
3. Features of modern engineering training in higher education. Authors: Yu.A. Antokhina,
S.V. Salty.
4. Operation of unmanned aircraft systems. Authors: T.Yu. Karpova, A.S. Kostin, N.N.
Maiorov.
5. Electromechanical and semiconductor converters for non-traditional and renewable sources
of electrical energy. Author: A.A. Martynov.
6. Fundamentals of electric drives. Part 2. Author: A.A. Martynov.
The meeting of the European ISA Council
On November 17, the last in 2021 meeting of the Executive Committee of 12 ISA District took
place. The meeting was held in the usual online format on the Team platform. The meeting was
chaired by the Vice-President of 12 ISA District, Mr. Francesco Diaz-Andrew (Spain). The
Russian St. Petersburg section of ISA was represented by the heads of the section: Professor
Galina Peshkova (President of the section), Professor Andrey Mikhailovich Tyurlikov
(President-Secretary of the section) and Associate Professor Arthur Surenovich Budagov
(delegate of the section).
XVII Internet Seminar on Project Management by Professor Gerald Cockrell
On October 11, another stream of listeners of the Internet seminar on Project Management
resumed its work in the showroom of the SUAI NIT. The Seminar is already being held for the
17th time for SUAI students, graduates and teachers by Gerald Cockrell, Professor of Indiana
State University (USA), Honorary Doctor of SUAI (President of ISA 2008). Over the years,
about 500 students have participated in its work. Classes are held in English and will last
until May 2022. Students who have successfully completed the course will receive
certificates.
Dear ISA Members,
The Executive Board is thrilled to announce the hiring of our next Executive Director,
Claire
Ramspeck.
Claire brings a 25-year history of leading standards and technology businesses within
associations, along with a wealth of volunteer experience, chairing and serving on several
boards and committees for the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and Underwriters
Laboratory (UL.)
Most recently, Claire founded Hobbs Barrett, a private consulting firm that specializes in
association management with a focus on development, adoption, and dissemination of standards
and other technical products and services. Prior to founding Hobbs Barrett, she built a
successful career as the Director of Technology at the American Society of Heating,
Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and the Managing Director of Standards
Development at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME.)
Claire holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina
State University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Georgia State
University. Prior to working with associations, she was a design engineering contractor for
the Department of Energy through Bechtel Savannah River.
You can learn more about Claire in our recent press release. She will begin in her new role
as Executive Director on November 1, and Mary Ramsey will stay on board to help Claire with
the transition until she officially retires on December 31, 2021. We are thankful for Mary's
continued leadership and vision, which dovetails perfectly with Claire's skill set. We are
confident that Claire will be a perfect addition to our ISA family and her experience will
help us create a bright future.
Please join me in welcoming Claire to the team.
Best Regards,
Steve Mustard
2021 ISA President
The Committee for Science and Higher Education of St. Petersburg, in accordance with the
decree of the Government of St. Petersburg No. 823 dated 25.06.2010, announced the results
of the grant competition for university students, PhD students, industry and academic
institutions located in St. Petersburg in 2021. Among the winners are the members of SUAI
ISA student section: Victoria Afanasyeva, Angelina Dobrovolskaya, Maria Sozdateleva, Daria
Shchukina, Alexander Rysin.
Global Management Challenge (GMC-2021)
From 24th to 25th of September, Nizhny Novgorod hosted the All-Russian final of the Global
Management Challenge (GMC-2021) World Championship as part of the Russian Management Week.
The Global Management Challenge is the world's largest strategic management championship.
The championship is based on a comprehensive computer business simulator (game model), which
makes it possible to gain experience in managing a company in less than a month, equal to
several years of work in a global competition. The championship also allows to apply
theoretical knowledge in practice and work out basic managerial and personal skills,
combining the world's leading experience in business education. Champions of the St.
Petersburg Cup, the SUAI team of the St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace
Instrumentation Institute of Fundamental Training and Technological Innovations, led by an
active member of the Russian St. Petersburg ISA Section, Candidate of Technical Sciences,
Associate Professor Alexander V. Chabanenko, took second place, losing to the HSE team. The
team consisted of active members of the SUAI ISA student section: Marina Shmeleva, Lidia
Klimochkina, Daniele Kazadio, Maria Rassyhaeva.
On 22nd of September, the Russian Robotics Week started in the regional collective work
space "Boiling Point – St. Petersburg. SUAI". The Russian Robotics Week is a complex of
congress and exhibition events, including the Industrial Robotics Forum, student
competitions in the Robotics Skills format, thematic exhibitions, seminars and master
classes. The event was organized by the Creonomyka Cluster. The general partners are KUKA
and the R-Pro Concern. SUAI is among the co-organizers and partners of the Week. The
official opening ceremony was attended by Dmitry Afanasyev, Deputy Minister of the Ministry
of Science and Higher Education, Anatoly Kotov, Special Representative of the Governor of
St. Petersburg for Economic Development, Alexey Korablev, Chairman of the Board of the
Creonomyka Cluster, Dmitry Kapishnikov, CEO of KUKA Robotics, and Kristina Wagner,
representative of EU Robotics. The SUAI rector Yulia Antokhina addressed the participants
and guests of the event with a welcoming speech. She noted that the Russian Robotics Week is
an important event for St. Petersburg and the country as a whole, as it is aimed at
developing technologies and educational programs in the field of industrial and service
robotics, industrial automation, digital twins and Industry 4.0. With the support of
partners such as KUKA and Creonomyka, SUAI is actively developing practice-oriented training
of students in basic educational programs, which makes it possible to reduce the gap between
university education and the demands of the robotics industry for young professionals,
optimizing the adaptation of graduates directly at the workplace. To date, SUAI has an
Institute of Innovative Technologies in Electromechanics and Rrobotics and three specialized
laboratories within the Engineering School: laboratories of Robotics, Unmanned Aircraft
Systems and Artificial Intelligence. Active participation in the Week of Robotics
organization and holding was taken by members of the Russian St. Petersburg Section of ISA:
Yu.A. Antokhina (SUAI Rector), V.F. Shishlakov (SUAI Vice-rector for Educational
Technologies and Innovation), S.V. Solenyi (Director of the SUAI Engineering School).
Scheduled elections of the ISA Russian Saint-Petersburg Section President.
The elections of the ISA Russian Saint-Petersburg Section President-elect 2022 were held in
September, 2021. The director of SUAI Institute of Aerospace Instruments and Systems, Doctor
of Technical Sciences, Nikolai Nikolayevich Maiorov is elected President-elect. It is
planned that he will replace Professor Andrey Mikhailovich Tyurlikov on January 1, 2023 as
President of the Section.
The results of the competition for scholarships of the President and the Government of the
Russian Federation have been announced. The scholarship of the President of the Russian
Federation for students and postgraduates enrolled in higher education programs in
organizations under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the
Russian Federation has been assigned to active members of the ISA student section of SUAI
Sergey Nenashev and Anna Fominykh.
On July 10, the All-Russian Student graduation "With Science in the heart" was held in
Moscow as part of the Year of Science and Technology. The best graduates of the Russian
Federation were awarded at the event. Angelina Dobrovolskaya, a master's student of the
Department of System Analysis and Logistics of the Institute of Aerospace Instruments and
Systems of SUAI, an active member of the ISA student section of SUAI, presented St.
Petersburg at the All-Russian Graduation. In 2019, she graduated with honors from the
bachelor's degree in the direction of "Technology of transport processes", and in 2021 she
received a master's degree in the direction of "Instrument engineering. Intelligent
transport systems". Angelina's research project is related to digital solutions for
assessing the state of urban transport infrastructure. The award was presented to Angelina
by a member of the Board of Directors of Mail.ru Group Vladimir Gabrielyan, especially
noting her as the best graduate of St. Petersburg in 2021.
On June 30, the 19th awarding ceremony of the St. Petersburg universities best graduates
took place in the Atrium of the Commandant's House of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St.
Petersburg. Yesterday's students were presented with letters of gratitude from the governor
and with bronze statuettes. The sphinx figurine symbolizes intelligence, strong character
and wisdom. This badge of honor was received by 60 of the best graduates of St. Petersburg.
They were congratulated by Vice-Governor Vladimir Knyaginin and Alexey Demidov, Chairman of
the Council of Rectors of Universities of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. Among the
awardees was Angelina Dobrovolskaya, a graduate of the master's program of the SUAI
Institute of Aerospace Instruments and Systems, an active member of the SUAI ISA student
section. Angelina has 13 scientific publications and a registered computer program.
The names of the winners of the international ISA Grant Competition for students (ISA
Educational Foundation Scholarship) in 2021 have been announced. Among the winners is the
2021 president of the SUAI ISA student section, a graduate student of the Department of
major problem-oriented computer complexes of SUAI - Bella Akopyan and Evgeny Grigoriev, the
PhD student of the Department of Computing Systems and Networks.
On June 22, Gerald Cockrell, Professor of the Indiana State University (USA), President of
the 2008 ISA, Honorary Doctor of SUAI, took part in the final session of the Internet
seminar on Project Management in the SUAI NIT showroom. Professor Cockrell has held the
seminar for the 16th time. Over the years, about 450 SUAI students, postgraduates, teachers
and members of the regular and student ISA sections took part in the seminar. Traditionally
Arthur Budagov, the director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship Technologies of SUAI, on
behalf of Professor Gerald Cockrell presented certificates of Indiana State University to
the participants of the seminar who successfully completed the program.
One of the oldest members of the Russian St. Petersburg ISA Section Professor, Doctor of
Technical Sciences Solozhentsev Evgeny Dmitrievich presented his fundamental monograph
"Fundamentals of Event-based Quality Management of the Economy, State and Human Life"
(published in 2021 in the publishing house "Science") to the ISA Knowledge Center. The
event-based quality management is a method of artificial intelligence based on the algebra
of logic and logical-probabilistic calculus and creates a new scientific direction in
economics.
From May 31 to June 4, the XXIV International Scientific Conference "Wave Electronics and
Infocommunication Systems" was held in SUAI. The conference was attended by more than 350
scientists from Russia and foreign countries (Belarus, Azerbaijan, France, Italy, Algeria,
Great Britain, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria). 134 reports were presented in 8 sections. As a result
of the Сonference, the materials of 129 reports were recommended by the organizing committee
for publication in the proceedings of the Сonference on the IEEE platform with indexing in
SCOPUS. The Сonference program included sessions of 8 sections: acousto-optics,
acousto-electronics, methods and devices of information processing, information processing
and transmission in infocommunication systems, control and measuring devices and intelligent
transport systems, electromechanics and control systems, modeling and situational quality
management in electronics and instrumentation, embedded microelectronic systems. The work of
the sections was held in a mixed format: participants presented their reports both in person
and online using the Zoom platform. Traditionally, the organizing committee noted the most
interesting reports of the young participants of the Conference. This year, among the
winners of diplomas and valuable prices, Alexander Chabanenko, a member of the Russian St.
Petersburg Section of the ISA, was awarded for the best fundamental research, section
"Modeling and situational quality management in electronics and instrumentation". The
members of the Russian St. Petersburg Section of the ISA: Yu.A. Antokhina, A. A. Ovodenko,
V. F. Shishlakov, A. R. Bestugin, K. V. Losev, N. N. Mayorov, E. G. Semenova, A. M.
Tyurlikov, V. I. Kazakov, I. A. Kirshina, S. V. Solionyi took an active part in the
organization and holding of the Conference.
On March 23, in the demonstration hall of the SUAI NIT, the work of the Internet seminar on
Project Management was resumed. The Seminar was already held for the 16th time for students,
postgraduates and teachers of SUAI by the Professor of the University of Indiana (USA),
Honorary Doctor of SUAI Gerald Cockrell (ISA President 2008). Over the years, about 450
students have participated in the Seminar. Classes are taught in English. At the end of the
course, students receive the University of Indiana Certificate.
Within the framework of the business program of the 5th SUAI Open Qualifier on WorldSkills
standards, the Session on Competences of the Future Economy was held. At the session, it was
decided to include a special competition task module on quality management in the
FutureSkills Digital Metrology competence. As part of the implementation of this project,
SUAI became a co-developer and partner of the Digital Metrology competence. Testing of the
competition task with a quality management module will take place in April 2021 within the
qualifiers for participation in the final of the IX National Championship on WorldSkills
standards and will continue towards the development of a demonstration exam for the Quality
Management training direction in the secondary vocational education system. Alexander V.
Chabanenko, a member of the Russian St. Petersburg ISA section, is actively involved in this
project, being a developer of the Quality Engineering/Management competence and an associate
professor at the SUAI Institute for Fundamental Training and Technological Innovations.
From March 29 to April 2 at the Expocentre Fairgrounds, Moscow, the Photonics Exhibition was
held. SUAI took part in the exhibition, demonstrating the stand on automated system for
precision laser processing of materials with the possibility of acousto-optic power control.
The uniqueness of this project lies in the formation of the output beam in the form of a
quasi-non-diffractive beam using an axicon, which allows to process materials of various
reliefs without the need to focus the beam. The beam intensity is controlled by an
acousto-optic modulator, which makes it possible to control the beam intensity without
changing the generation mode. The SUAI delegation included employees and students of the
Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Communications, such as active members of
ISA regular and student sections Vasily I. Kazakov, Candidate of Technical Sciences,
Associate Professor of the Department of Design and Technologies of Electronic and Laser
Means, and Ksenia V. Serdyuk, a postgraduate student of the same department. In the
framework of the exhibition, the Laser Association of Russia summed up the results of the
annual competition of specialist’s, bachelor’s and master’s graduate qualification works.
Ksenia V. Serdyuk became the winner of the competition for the master's thesis on optical
diffractive prism spectral device.
Active members of the Russian St. Petersburg ISA section Yulia A. Antokhina, Rector of SUAI,
and Nikolai N. Mayorov, director of the SUAI Institute of Aerospace Devices and Systems,
presented the ISA Knowledge Center with the scientific publication on Modern Scientific and
Educational Complex and Scientific Schools of the SUAI Institute of Aerospace Devices and
Systems, published in 2021.
On March 4, SUAI hosted the
Third
International Forum on Metrological Support of Innovative Technologies. In 2021,
more than 400 specialists in the field of metrology took part in the Forum. The Forum
brought together traditional scientific areas such as metrology economics, innovative
technologies in instrumentation and radioelectronics as well as measurements in mechanical
engineering and in automation systems of technological processes. Also, new sections were
formed in response to modern realities: Challenges and Opportunities of Standardization and
Quality Infrastructure, Innovative Educational Methods for Training Highly Qualified
Scientists and Specialists and others. Active members of the Russian St. Petersburg ISA
Section took part in the organization and running of the Forum: Rector of SUAI Yulia A.
Antokhina, President of SUAI Anatoly A. Ovodenko, Vice-Rector for educational technologies
and innovation activities of SUAI Vladislav F. Shishlakov and Director of SUAI Institute for
Fundamental Training and Innovative Technologies Elena G. Semyonova.
On February 18, 2021, in Petrozavodsk, Maxim Rusanov, member of the ISA student section of
SUAI, student of the SUAI Faculty of Computing Systems and Programming, became the winner of
the International Educational and Research Competition "Youth for Science 2021" in the
category "Technical Sciences". He was awarded the first-degree diploma of the International
Center for Scientific Partnership "New Science " as the author of the research work
"Creation of the game" Minesweeper" based on OPENGL".
On February 4-5, 2021, the annual National Information Security Forum Infoforum-2021 was
held in the building of the Moscow Government (Moscow, Novy Arbat St., 36). For more than 15
years, efforts of Infoforum have been aimed at creating conditions for interaction of
specialists in the field of information security in the Russian Federation. Substantive
discussion of the most important issues in this area within the Infoforum contributes to the
search for rational ways to achieve a high level of national information security. The
Infoforum is organized by the State Duma Committee for Security and Anti-Corruption, the
Office of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass
Communications of the Russian Federation, the Federal Security Service of Russia and the
Federal Service for Technical and Export Control of Russia in conjunction with federal
executive authorities. Within the framework of the Infoforum program, the laureates of
Infoforum - New Generation, the All-Russian competition for young specialists and
educational centers in the field of information security, were awarded. A laureate diploma
of the Student of the Year was awarded to a Master student of the SUAI Department of
Information System Security, a member of the SUAI ISA student section Anna A. Fominykh for
her excellent performance in studies and participation in research work in the field of
information security under academic supervision of the Head of the Department of Information
System Security, associate professor Andrey A. Ovchinnikov, one of the first members of the
ISA SUAI student section, president of the ISA SUAI student section in 2001. Anna A.
Fominykh was also awarded the winner’s diploma of the All-Russian round of the open
competition for the best scientific work of students in the field of information security in
2020. This year, five prizes of the competition were won by Master students of the SUAI
Department of Information System Security. Andrei M. Tyurlikov, Director of the SUAI
Institute of Information Systems and Information Security, Professor, Elect President of the
ISA Russian St. Petersburg Section, took a great part in the trainig of students.
From February 2 to February 5, 2021, the student track of the Olympiad of the Study Group of
"Flying Robotics" National Technological Initiative was held at the Laboratory of Unmanned
Aviation Systems of the SUAI. In 2021, representatives of many Russian universities took
part in the Olympiad: NSTU, SPbSTU, HSE, MAI, ITMO, NIST MISiS, SUAI and others. The SUAI
Onboard Aircraft Systems Laboratory has an excellent flight zone and modern equipment. There
is everything that the participants of the competition need, and the laboratory staff under
the leadership of the Director of the Institute of Aerospace Instruments and Systems of the
SUAI Nikolai Nikolaevich Mayorov (an active member of the Russian St. Petersburg section of
the ISA), take an active part on holding the Olympiad and the development of the direction
in general. The Olympiad was won by the SUAI students team, which included Angelina
Dobrovolskaya, a member of the ISA SUAI student section.
On New Year's Eve, the Russian section of ISA received congratulations from colleagues from
Australia, Brazil, USA, Great Britain, Italy, France, Spain and Ireland. On January 1, 2021,
Mr. Steve Mustard (USA) took over as ISA President. Mr. Francisco Diaz-Andreu (Spain) was
elected Vice President of ISA District 12 from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022.
Professor Galina Yu. Peshkova, the Vice-Rector of SUAI for the Development of the University
Complex, took office as President of the ISA Russian section. On January 1, 2022, she will
be replaced by Professor Andrei M. Tyurlikov, the Director of the Institute of Information
Systems and Information Security of SUAI.
On January 17, 2021, a delegate of the ISA Russian section, the Director of the Institute of
Entrepreneurship Technologies of SUAI Artur S. Budagov took part in the first meeting of the
ISA Executive Committee of District 12, held online by the new vice-president of ISA
District 12, Mr. Francisco Diaz-Andreu.
An active member of the ISA Russian section Aleksandra M. Melnichenko, Dean of the Faculty
of Additional Professional Education of SUAI, associate professor, was elected to the Public
Council under the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the
Russian Federation.
The Director of the Institute of Aerospace Instruments and Systems of SUAI, Associate
Professor Nikolai N. Mayorov presented the ISA Knowledge Center with a teaching manual on
Fundamentals of Autonomous Control of Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Solving Transport
Problems, published in 2020 by D.V. Yelenin, A.S. Kostin and N.N. Mayorov. The President of
the ISA St. Petersburg Russian section, Vice-Rector of SUAI for the Development of the
University Complex, Professor Galina Yu. Peshkova presented the ISA Knowledge Center with
the textbook on Prospects for the Development of the Economic Potential of the Territory of
Russia as an Integral Part of the Customs Territory of the EAEU, published in 2019.
The President of the ISA Russian section 2020, Professor Vladislav F. Shishlakov, was
awarded the ISA Honorary Diploma and the special Past Section President badge.
Sergei Nenashev, a student of the SUAI Institute of Computing Systems and Programming, a
member of the ISA SUAI student section, became the winner of the Student of the Year 2020
Competition in St. Petersburg in nomination of the Best Student in Scientific and Technical
Creativity!
Active members of ISA Russian St. Petersburg section Andrey M. Tyurlikov, Director of the
SUAI Institute of Information Systems and Information Security, Doctor of Technical
Sciences, Professor, and Alexandra M. Melnichenko, Dean of the SUAI Faculty of Additional
Professional Education, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, were awarded
the Prize of the Government of Saint Petersburg for outstanding achievements in the field of
higher education and secondary vocational education for their paper on the practice of
introducing scientific achievements in the Future Skills competence in the field of
infocommunication systems.
Undergraduates of the SUAI Institute of Aerospace Instruments and Systems Angelina
Dobrovolskaya, the president of ISA SUAI student section of 2019, and an active member of
the ISA SUAI student section Nikita Bogatov were awarded Personal scholarships of the
Government of St. Petersburg for students of educational institutions of higher education
and secondary vocational education
A student of the SUAI Institute of Computing Systems and Programming Sergey Nenashev, an
active member of ISA SUAI student section, became the winner of the UMNIK program within the
framework of the federal project on Human Resources for the Digital Economy of the national
program "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation" with his project on Development of
software for a high-precision multi-sensor spatially distributed operational monitoring
system for the exchange and processing of information for the purpose of environmental
reconnaissance and forecasting of emergency situations.
Dobrovolskaya Angelina, a student of the Institute of Aerospace Instruments and Systems of
the SUAI, a member of the SUAI ISA student section, has been awarded a scholarship of the
President of the Russian Federation for the 2020-2021 academic year in priority areas of
modernization and technological development of the Russian economy.
On September 23-24, the 11th Open Youth Scientific and Practical Conference "The future of
strong Russia is in high technologies" was held at Saint Petersburg City Palace of Youth
Creativity. The geography of the conference, which covered the whole country from the Far
Eastern Federal District to the Republic of Crimea and Kaliningrad, expanded in 2020. New
participants from Kirov and Velikiye Luki, Kurgan and Kostroma, Chelyabinsk and Perm,
Izhevsk and Tula region, Ufa and Cheboksary, Verkhny Ufaley and Kazan joined the conference
– a total of 250 schoolchildren from grades 9-11 and students of 1-3 courses of secondary
and higher vocational education, who presented 140 reports in 9 sections. Candidates of
technical sciences, associate professors of the Institute of Fundamental Training and
Technological Innovations of SUAI, the Department of Innovation and Integrated Quality
Systems Stanislav A. Nazarevich and Alexander V. Chabanenko took an active part in the
organization and holding of the conference. The winner of the Technics Section was a 1st
year student of the SUAI Institute of Fundamental Training and Technological Innovations, a
member of the ISA SUAI student section Daniele F. Kazadio with his project on Development of
a Robotic Complex for Controlling Geometric Parameters of Additive Manufacturing.
On September 17-19, the Saint Petersburg Technical Fair 2020 was held at Expoforum. The SUAI
exposition was presented by scientific and technical projects in the field of energetics,
robotics, unmanned aircraft systems and aircraft instrument engineering. SUAI presented five
projects within the framework of the International Hi-Tech Exhibition: Robotic System for
Diagnostics of Overhead Power Lines; Plastic Recycling System for 3D Printing; Wireless
Multiservice Internet of Things System for Digital Production; Autonomous Wing Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle; Low-Flying Target Simulator. Three projects were awarded silver medals and
two projects were awarded diplomas. An active part in the preparation of the exposition and
the implementation of scientific and technical projects was taken by Vladislav F.
Shishlakov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, SUAI Vice Rector for Educational
Technologies and Innovation, President of ISA Russian St. Petersburg Section of 2020, and
Sergey V. Solyonyi, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Director of the
SUAI Engineering School.
Associate Professor of the SUAI Department of Electromechanics and Robotics, PhD in
Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Alexander A. Martynov, donated to the ISA Knowledge
Center in the Russian Federation study guides on Electric Drives with Relay Contact Control
Systems, Design and Operation of Semiconductor Converters for Electromechanical Systems,
Electric Machines of Gyroscopic Devices, published in 2020. The head of the SUAI Department
of Radio Engineering and Optoelectronic Complexes, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor
Alexander F. Kryachko donated to the ISA knowledge center in the Russian Federation
textbooks and study guides on Devices for Receiving and Processing Signals, Energy
Calculations in Electrodynamics, Collection of Aeronautical Information on Airfields.
On September 8-10, within the framework of the CIEP 2020 Week of Russian Science and
Technology an online exposition, thematic online conferences, events promoting scientific
projects and other events are organized. Staff members of the SUAI Department of
International Affairs and the SUAI Center for Coordination of Scientific Research took part
in the Russian-Chinese conference on scientific, technical and innovative cooperation in the
field of advanced production technologies. At the conference, an active member of the ISA
Russian St. Petersburg section, Director of the SUAI Center for Coordination of Scientific
Research A.V. Rabin and leading specialist of the SUAI Center for Coordination of Scientific
Research A.A. Petrushevskaya presented the project on technology for the purification of
oily water with filters based on graphene sorbent, implemented under the Federal Target
Program for Research and Development in Priority Areas of Development of the Scientific and
Technological Complex of Russia for 2014-2020.
On September 3, 2020, the awarding ceremony of the XVI open competition of PJSC "TGK-1" for
the best graduation project of students of higher educational institutions of the North-West
Federal District took place. In nomination of Construction, operation and management of
renewable energy facilities the second place was taken by the master of the SUAI Institute
of Innovative Technologies in Electromechanics and Robotics Nikolay Prussak. The project
topic is The Use of Secondary Energy Resources for Energy Saving on the Territory of St.
Petersburg. The head of research is an active member of the ISA Russian St. Petersburg
section, PhD in Technical Sciences, associate professor of the Institute of Innovative
Technologies in Electromechanics and Robotics, Director of the SUAI Engineering School
Sergey V. Solyonyi.
In September 2020, the election of the President-Secretary of the ISA Russian St. Petersburg
section took place. The director of the SUAI Institute of Information Systems and
Information Security, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Andrei M. Tyurlikov was
elected President-Secretary. On January 1, 2022, he will replace the President of the ISA
Russian Section 2021, Vice-Rector for the Development of the SUAI University Complex, Doctor
of Economics, Professor Galina Yu. Peshkova.
Great success was achieved by members of the ISA SUAI student section, SUAI students and
postgraduates in the year of the 75th anniversary of the International Society of Automation
and the 25th anniversary of the ISA Russian section and the ISA student section of the State
University of Aerospace Instrumentation. The president of the ISA SUAI student section,
postgraduate student Mikhail Afanasiev, the elect president of the ISA SUAI student section,
post-graduate student Elizaveta Vataeva, student Sergei Nenashev and post-graduate student
Evgeny Grigoriev became winners of the ISA grant competition in 2020.
On February 26, 2020 in Tokyo was held the opening of the international exhibition of
aerospace technologies AeroTech 2020.
The exhibition was attended by leading scientific and educational organizations and the
largest enterprises in the aerospace industry. The Russian aerospace research sphere was
represented by the SUAI delegation, led by rector Yulia Anatolyevna Antokhina. The
delegation also included active members of the ISA Russian section: Konstantin Viktorovich
Losev, Sergey Valentinovich Soleny, Nikolai Nikolaevich Mayorov.
On February 20, at the Academic Council of SUAI, Rector Prof. Antokhina Yulia A. handed the
Candidate of Technical Sciences Diploma to Alexander Chabanenko, the senior lecturer of the
Department of Innovation and Integrated Quality Systems of the Institute of Fundamental
Training and Technological Innovation, an active member of the ISA Russian section,
SUAI.
On February 15th, American astronaut Anna Lee Fisher delivered a lecture on innovation in
space research and work at the international space station to students and guests of the
SUAI. The lecture was attended by more than 400 citizens interested in a space theme. The
meeting with Anna Fisher took place as a part of the astronaut’s two-day visit to Saint
Petersburg under the auspices of the CosmoStart forum of cosmonautics and aviation, which
will be held in November 2020 and will be dedicated to the first planet rover, Lunokhod-1,
created 50 years ago. Since 2016, the CosmoStart Forum has been visited by more than 20
Russian cosmonauts and test pilots. The interest in interaction with them has always been
truly huge, so when the opportunity arose to hold a meeting with the American astronaut
foreseeing the fifth anniversary Forum, SUAI took this chance. The visit of the American
astronaut is also connected with the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, which
is celebrated by resolution of UN on February 11th. Anna Fisher is a vivid example of a
person who has successfully fulfilled themselves in the space sphere. The meeting with the
astronaut was attended by members of the ISA Russian section: Yulia A. Antokhina, Konstantin
V. Losev, Nikolai N. Mayorov, Evgeniy A. Antokhin., Soleniy S.V.
On February 3, the annual meeting of the ISA Russian Federation Presidium was held at ISA
Russian headquarters. On New Year's Eve, the St. Petersburg Russian section of the
International Society of Automation (ISA) received numerous greetings and congratulations
from colleagues from Russia, Australia, the UK, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Canada, the
Netherlands, the United States and France. Among those who congratulated the ISA Russian
section are traditionally such well-known university centers as MIT, Indiana State
University, Georgia University (USA), Catania University and Enna Kore University (Italy),
Valladolid University (Spain) and Cork Institute of Technology (Ireland). The Presidium
meeting was chaired by the SUAI Rector, President of the ISA Russian Section in 2014, Doctor
of Economics, Professor Yulia A. Antokhina, and the Head of the ISA Representative Office in
the Russian Federation, SUAI President, Doctor of Engineering, Professor Anatoly A.
Ovodenko. The president of the 2019 section, the director of the SUAI Institute of
continuous and distance education, doctor of technical sciences, professor Sergey V.
Michurin made a report on the work done in 2019. His presidency was approved by the members
of the Presidium. Then, the President of the Russian section of ISA 2020, Vice-Rector for
Educational Technologies and Innovation Activities of the SUAI, Doctor of Technical
Sciences, Professor Vladislav F. Shishlakov made a work plan for 2020. The section’s
activities in 2020 will be marked by the 75th anniversary of the International Society of
Automation (ISA), the 25th anniversary of the Russian ISA section and the 25th anniversary
of the SUAI ISA student section. On behalf of the ISA Executive Committee, Head of ISA
Representative office in the Russian Federation, Professor Anatoly A. Ovodenko conferred the
Past Section President Lapel Pin on Sergey V. Michurin.
On December 3, the Chairman of the Committee on Science and Higher Education of Saint
Petersburg Andrei S. Maksimov and the Rector of Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University of
Peter the Great Andrei I. Rudskoy presented the Saint Petersburg Government Awards in the
field of scientific and pedagogical activity 2019 in the SPbPU Great Conference Hall of the
Research Building. An associate professor of the SUAI Institute of Innovative Technologies
in Electromechanics and Robotics Sergey V. Solyony (active member of the ISA Russian Saint
Petersburg section) earned this award for the second time.
In November 2019, an international scientific SPIE conference on Future Sensing Technologies
was held in Tokyo (Japan). About 50 students from around the world attended the conference.
A SUAI student, member of the SUAI SPIE student section and the ISA student section
Ekaterina Kapranova made a presentation on distributed matrix methods of compression,
masking and noise-resistant image encoding in a high-speed network of information exchange,
information processing and agregation at the conference.
From November 14 to 24, 2019, as part of the European Robot Week, the Russian Robot Week was
held for the first time in St. Petersburg. From November 18 to 24, Mobile Robotics
competition in professional skills in working with robotic systems and their programming
were held for students and pupils at the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace
Instrumentation. A lot of work on the preparation, organization and conduct of the
competition was done by active members of the ISA Russian section V.F. Shishlakov (President
of the Russian section of ISA 2020) and S.V. Solyony (Director of the SUAI Engineering
School
On November 9, the All-Russian Conference "My Contribution to the Greatness of Russia" was
held in Moscow. Over 170 students and students from 33 Russian Federation constituents took
part in it. A SUAI student, member of the SUAI student section of ISA Nikita Bogatov was
awarded the Diploma of the II degree for his competition entry on new solutions in the field
of aircraft servicing at the airport. Also, the scientific supervisor of the work Nikolay N.
Mayorov, an active member of the ISA Russian St. Petersburg section, was awarded an honorary
diploma.
On October 28, the first lesson of the project management webinar took place in the NIT
showroom of SUAI. The webinar for SUAI students, post-graduate students and teachers was
held by Gerald Cockrell, professor of Indiana State University (USA) and ISA president in
2008, for the 15th time.
On October 26-28, the past president and delegate of the ISA Russian section, director of
the SUAI Institute of Enterprise Technology, Doctor of Economics, associate professor Arthur
S. Budagov attended the annual meeting of the ISA Council of Delegates and the meeting of
the ISA District 12 Council in San Diego (California, USA).
Members of the SUAI ISA student section Mikhail Afanasiev and Ekaterina Kapranova won ISA
2019 Educational Foundation Scholarship.
From October 11 to October 13, 2019, the SUAI team took part in the CopterHack 2019
international hackathon, which brings together quadrocopter programming professionals. In
2019, 51 teams took part in the hackathon. The event was organized by COEX, a Russian
developer and manufacturer of unmanned multi-rotor aerial systems and software for their
autonomy. ICopterSUAI student team consisting of students of the Institute of Aerospace
Instruments and Systems took 7th place and entered the top ten. The team proposed a new
solution for the use of quadrocopters for urban transport systems and completed the full
implementation from the idea to the practical presentation of the project. The team leader
is an active member of the ISA Russian Section, candidate of technical sciences, associate
professor Nikolai N. Mayorov (Director of the SUAI Institute of Aerospace Instruments and
Systems).
On August 22, 2019 in the capital of Tatarstan, Kazan, the 45th World Championship of
Professional Skills WorldSkills started. The championship was opened by Russian Prime
Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Russia hosted this event for the first time. One and a half
thousand specialists from 63 countries took part in the competitions in 56 competencies,
including the SUAI team. SUAI took part both in the competitive competencies of the
FutureSkills zone (main track, participants over 17 years old), and in the organization of
the championship, and in the business program. First of all, SUAI was represented in the
competence of Enterprise Information Systems Security (“Corporate protection against
internal threats to information security”), aimed at ensuring protection against internal
data leaks using the most modern means of protection: DLP, IDS, VPN, etc. The competition
organization and the coordination of work on its development were carried out by the
competency manager, one of its creators, the head of the SUAI Informatization Department, an
active member of the ISA Russian section, Sergeyev Anton Valerievich.
In the framework of the II St. Petersburg Digital Forum, SUAI organized the plenary
discussion “Skills for Digital Future. Transformation of the national training system as a
response to the challenges of the digital age. Modern Russian university as a key element in
creating a digital economy. Integration of business and higher education. " It was attended
by representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science, State Atomic Energy Agency,
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, NRU Higher School of Economics, JSC Infotex.
Due to the rapid development of new professions and competencies and the changing role of
universities aimed at training high-tech personnel, there is a need to transform the
national training systems for specialists. The panelists discussed the challenges of the
digital age and options for successfully overcoming them.
The discussion was attended by the rector of SUAI, the president of the Russian ISA section
of 2014, professor Julia Antokhina. She shared her positive experience in training modern
specialists, since now SUAI is a national leader in the number of future professions being
created and competencies of WorldSkills aimed at advanced training and the creation of
promising professions. Mobile robotics, software solutions for business, space systems
engineering (FutureSkills), Internet marketing, Internet of things (FutureSkills), corporate
protection against internal threats to information security (FutureSkills) - this is not a
complete list of competencies actively developed at the University. After the discussion, a
memorandum of cooperation was signed between the Government of St. Petersburg, PJSC
Rostelecom, JSC Shvabe, St. Petersburg State University of Technology named after prof. M.A.
Bonch-Bruevich, SUAI, ITMO and LETI named after V.I. Ulyanov (Lenin). The purpose of the
memorandum is to create a world-class scientific and educational center in St. Petersburg in
the field of 5G networks and promising networks 2030. The initiative to create a scientific
and educational center is due to the significant potential of St. Petersburg in the
development of the digital economy: the location of the country's leading universities in
the country and the world areas of information technology, the availability of laboratories,
centers for collective use and equipment, unique scientific developments in the direction of
the future scientific educational center. Active members of the ISA Russian Section also
took part in the work of the II St. Petersburg Digital Forum: Pavlov I.A., Sergeev A.V.,
Turlikov A.M., Ovchinnikov A.A., Fetisov V.A., Melnichenko A.M.
On June 28, an exhibition of graduation projects by students of universities of St.
Petersburg on the instructions of the executive authorities of St. Petersburg "Students to
the City of 2019" was held in St. Petersburg. Four 2019 year graduates of the SUAI who won
the Contest were granted the right to complete their diploma projects. The author of the
graduation project “Development of proposals for improving the organization of
transportation of passengers and baggage by the passenger taxis on the territory of St.
Petersburg” was Angelina Dobrovolskaya, the president of the SUAI ISA student section. Vice
Governor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Kniaginin, who visited the exhibition, carefully read
the SUAI exposition and thanked the students and managers. Yulia Antokhina, Rector of SUAI
(President of the ISA Russian Section 2014), introduced the students to the Vice-Governor
and their work.
June 21, 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the Russian St. Petersburg Section of the
International Society of Automation (ISA). The 2002 ISA President Mr. Piergiuseppe Zani
(Italy) arrived to congratulate the section on its anniversary. On June 27, the ISA
Headquarters in the Russian Federation hosted a meeting of the members of the ISA Presidium
of the Russian Federation with Mr. Zani. The meeting was attended by: the Rector of SUAI,
President of the Russian ISA Section 2014, Antokhina Yulia; The head of the representative
office of ISA in the Russian Federation, the president of SUAI Ovodenko Anatoly; Director of
the Institute of Entrepreneurship Technologies of SUAI, President of the Russian Section ISA
2018, Budagov Artur; Director of the Institute of Continuous and Distance Education of SUAI,
President of the Russian Section of ISA 2019, Michurin Sergey; Deputy Head of the ISA
Representative Office in the Russian Federation; Vice-President of the ISA 2007-2008, ISA
Life Fellow Alexander Bobovich. Mr. Zani took part in the meeting of the SUAI Academic
Council, where he delivered official congratulations on behalf of the International Society
of Automation (ISA) to the anniversaries. Mr. Zani presented the Rector of SUAI, President
of the Russian ISA Section 2014, Antokhina Yulia, and the President of SUAI, Head of the ISA
Office in the Russian Federation, Professor Ovodenko Anatoly the commemorative medals "25
years of ISA in Russia". He also donated a number of recent scientific publications in the
field of automation to the ISA knowledge center in the SUAI. At the same meeting of the SUAI
Academic Council, Mr. Zani and Antokhina Yulia presented to the students of the SUAI - the
winners of the ISA 15th European Students Papers Competition - honorary diplomas and gold
medals. Awards were received by: Mikhail Afanasev, Elizaveta Vataeva, Elizaveta Skornyakova,
Bella Akopyan, Georgy Tvardovsky, Nikita Bogatov. On the same day, a ceremonial meeting of
the Russian St. Petersburg Section of the International Society of Automation was held,
dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the section.
In June, the 11th KES International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT
2019) was held in Malta in San Julian. Active members of the Russian ISA section took part
in the conference and made presentations at the Intelligent Data Processing and Software
Paradigms section: V.A. Nenashev, Assistant Professor of the SUAI, and A.V. Sergeev, Head of
the Information Administration Department of the SUAI. The reports aroused great interest
among the conference participants, since the topics of quasi-orthogonal matrices and their
applications found followers not only among scientists from Russia, but also from Australia,
Israel, Canada, Germany, Greece, Japan, China and other countries.
Round Table on Designing of the Network Center For Future and HiTech Skills was held in SUAI
in June 11. Among those who took part in the Round Table were SUAI Rector, member of the St.
Petersburg Facilitating Committee for EuroSkills 2022 Yulia Antokhina; Sergey Kukolev,
director of the Department for work with educational organizations of the Union of Young
Specialists of WorldSkills Russia; Anna Stepanova, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for
Science and Higher Education in St. Petersburg; as well as senior officials of secondary
vocational and higher education organizations participating in WorldSkills Russia. The Round
Table was devoted to discussing the outcome of the finals of the VII National Championship
"Young Professionals" (WSR) 2019, as well as to the exchange of views on the problems and
prospects for the participation of institutions of secondary vocational and higher education
in St. Petersburg in the WorldSkills movement, including their contribution to the
development of professions and competencies of the future (HiTech / Future Skills).
Discussion of these issues is highly relevant, including in connection with the preparation
of St. Petersburg for the holding the EuroSkills championship in 2022. It is assumed that
members of the Russian section of ISA will actively participate in the work of the center.
“Wave Electronics and Info-Communication Systems” Conference was held in June 3-7. More than
250 scientists from Russia and abroad (Belorussia, Italy, Moldavia) took part in the
Conference. 120 of them were young scholars. Participant had submitted 103 reports. Wave and
info-communication systems is a promising modern science direction. That is why the
convening of such a conferences is so relevant: they contribute to identification of
priority research fields, raise the capabilities of employees in engineering and science,
intensificate the researches in this area, all of which leads to improving the Russian
reserchers’ competitiveness. Antokhina Y.A., Ovodenko A.A., Shishlakov V.F., Bestughin A.R.,
Kirshina I.A. were actively involved in organization and running of the conference. Young
scholars from SUAI and participants of Russian section of ISA Vasiliy Kazakov, Elisaveta
Vataeva and Nikita Boykov were awarded diplomas and precious prizes.
On May 29 there was held an international seminar dedicated to intellectual models and
research methods of transport systems (with regard to airport activities) for tutors and
students of Haaga-Helia University of Applied sciences, Finland. The seminar was attended by
students from Aviation Business operations bachelor’s degree programs and master’s degree
programs. At the one-day seminar students of Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences were
introduced to SUAI study and training opportunities and exchange programs, and visited SUAI
history museum. Moreover active participant of the regular and student’s ISA section:
Assistant professor, PHD in engineering N.N. Mayorov and students: Angelina Dobrovolyskaya
and Nikita Bogatov organized the training-seminar on “Production process in the treatment of
aircrafts” for the participant.
From April 22 to April 26, at SUAI Engineering School, qualifying competitions were held for
the right to participate in the Final of the VII Young Professionals National Championship
2019 (WorldSkills Russia) in corporate protection against internal threats to information
security. Protecting corporate information from hacking, viruses, misuse and leaks is one of
the most pressing issues of our time and specialists in this area are in great demand now.
Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation has been developing
WorldSkills core competencies and training professional personnel in the field of
information security since 2017. In 2018-2019, representatives of 17 regions of the Russian
Federation underwent training at SUAI on specialized additional education programs in the
field of information security according to WorldSkills standards. Therefore, there is a
plausible case that SUAI has become the platform for selecting the best young professionals
in the field of information security. The competition was attended by the winning teams of
regional qualifying competitions from seven regions of the Russian Federation: St.
Petersburg, Moscow, Moscow Region, Altai Territory, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Bryansk Region
and Kemerovo Region. St. Petersburg hosted the WorldSkills national qualification
championship for the first time. This is a serious step towards participation in national
WSR competitions in St. Petersburg. Qualifying championships and participation of St.
Petersburg teams in the national selection is an important stage of preparation for the
upcoming WorldSkills Competition, 2019 World Championships in Kazan and the EuroSkills
European Professional Skills Championship, which will be held in St. Petersburg in 2022.
Anton V. Sergeev, the head of SUAI Informatization Department, competence manager of WSR in
corporate protection againsti threats of information security, an active member of the
Russian ISA section, did a great job of organizing and conducting the competitions.
ISA honorary diploma was awarded to a member of ISA Russian section, the vice-rector of SUAI
for the development of the university complex, doctor of economic sciences Galina Yuryevna
Peshkova.
On April 18, a follow-up seminar for the DellEMC-SUAI supplementary training program was
held at the Leonardo da Vinci SUAI Scientific Exhibition Hall. Students presented their
projects in the field of cloud storage technology. Project themes are related to the most
modern products and solutions, such as software-defined data storage system Elastic Cloud
Storage; technology for managing secure cloud containers Kubernates, secure cloud system
Pivotal Cloud Foundry and hyper-convergent block storage system ScaleIO. The work on the
program is carried out within the framework of the project training concept. In addition to
mastering modern technologies, students participate in the implementation of R & D conducted
by SUAI Institute of Information Systems and Information Protection. In 2019, students
participating in the program implement educational and methodological complexes using the
most advanced storage systems based on real-world application scenarios provided by DellEMC.
Active members of the Russian ISA section A.M. Tyurlikov, A.A. Ovchinnikov, A.V. Sergeev,
V.O. Minchenko and M. Salamatov take an active part in the implementation of the
DellEMC-SUAI program.
From April 15 to April 19, the 72nd International Scientific Student Conference was held at
SUAI. Within its framework, XII International Society of Automation (ISA) Student Research
Long Distance Conference was held on April 11. Students, post-graduates and university
professors from the USA, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Russia took part in the conference. The
conference was chaired by Indiana State University Professor Gerald Cockrell (President of
ISA 2009). The conference organizing committee granted the right to represent Russian
students to SUAI students Mikhail Afanasyev and Nikita Bogatov. They made presentations in
English on estimation of transport coding efficiency for packets with exponentially
distributed network latency and modern automated solutions for aircraft maintenance,
respectively. Both reports aroused great interest among the conference participants.
Mikhail’s research is advised by the head of SUAI Informatization Department, an active
member of ISA Russian section, Anton V. Sergeev. Nikita is advised by an associate professor
at SUAI Department of System Analysis and Logistics, an active member of ISA Russian section
Nikolay N. Mayorov. By the decision of the international jury, the reports of SUAI students
were rated as the best. Afanasyev and Bogatov were awarded with ISA Honorary Diplomas as
well as their research advisers.
Director of the Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Communications of SUAI,
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, President of the Russian Section of the ISA 2013
Aleksandr R. Bestugin presented journals published at SUAI in 2018 to the ISA Knowledge
Center in the Russian Federation: Electromagnetic Waves and Electronic Systems (No. 7'18
t.23) on Scientific Achievements of SUAI and the December issue of Sensors and Systems (No.
12 (231)).
The authors of scientific articles published in the journals are active members of the
Russian St. Petersburg section of the ISA: Yulia A. Antokhina, Aleksandr R. Bestugin,
Aleksandr F. Kryachko, Mikhail A. Vaganov, Alexey V. Rabin, Irina A. Kirshina, Natalia A.
Ovchinnikova, Viktor I. Kazakov.
On January 28, the annual meeting of the ISA Presidium of the Russian Federation was held at
the headquarters of ISA in the Russian Federation. The meeting was chaired by the SUAI
rector Yulia Antokhina, President of the Russian ISA Section 2014 and Head of the ISA
Representative Office in the Russian Federation, and the President of SUAI Ovodenko Anatoly
Arkadyevich. During the meeting the report on the work done in 2018 was made by the Director
of the Institute of Entrepreneurship Technologies, Doctor of Economics, Candidate of
Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor Budagov Arthur Surenovich. His work
as president was approved by the members of the Presidium. Then the President of the Russian
Section of ISA 2019, Director of the Institute of Continuing and Distance Education of the
SUAI, Doctor of Technical Sciences Michurin Sergey Vladimirovich made a speech on the work
plan for 2019. On behalf of the ISA Executive Committee the Head of the ISA representative
office in the Russian Federation Professor A. Ovodenko handed Budagova A.S. a special sign
of the section ex- president. At the meeting of the Presidium were announced the election
results for the post of president-secretary of the Russian section of the ISA. This post was
given to the Vice-Rector for Educational Technologies and Innovation Activities of SUAI,
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Vladislav Fedorovich Shishlakov, who will assume the
position of President of the Section on January 1, 2020.
The Russian Students Day is a special event for SUAI. After all, on January 25, 1941, a
decree was signed on the creation of this educational institution. Vladimir Kniaginin, the
vice-governor of St. Petersburg starting from the 2019, whose duty is to oversee vocational
education and science policy of the city came to congratulate the university. One of the
first working meetings in the new position for him was a visit to SUAI. The rector of the
university, the president of the Russian ISA section of 2014, Yulia Antokhina, conducted for
him a tour in the university building located on Moskovsky Prospect. Vladimir Knyaginin
visited educational classes of the Faculty of Secondary Vocational Education of the SUAI,
talked to the heads of research departments and students, and got acquainted with students’
developments in the scientific and educational accelerator "SUAI Engineering Garage". In
addition, the vice-governor saw the SUAI School of Engineering laboratories of robotics,of
the Internet of Things, and the joint cybersecurity research laboratory of SUAI and
InfoWatch. Heads of research departments and students of the SUAI told the vice-governor
about their projects, participation in WorldSkills competitions, interaction with
technological and industrial partners, and also presented their own developments, including
the mobile robotic platform, mini quadcopters (Tiny whoop), various drones. The meeting was
attended by active members of the Russian section of the ISA: Shishlakov V.F., Pavlov I.A.,
Losev K.V., Tyurlikov A.M., Peshkova G.Yu.
On the New Year’s Eve, the Russian section of the International Automation Society (ISA)
received numerous greetings and congratulations from colleagues from Russia, Australia,
Brazil, Great Britain, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Canada, USA, and France. Among those who
congratulated the Russian section of the ISA are traditionally such well-known university
centers as MIT, Indiana State University, University of Georgia (USA), University of Catania
and Enn's “Kore” University (Italy), University of Valladolid (Spain), Cork Institute of
Technology (Ireland). The section was congratulated by the current ISA President and five
ISA Presidents of different years, as well as the Acting Vice-President of District 12 and
eight Vice-Presidents of the District 12 of different years.
On November 28-30, the International Science and Education Salon was held at the Expoforum
Convention and Exhibition Center as part of the Week of Science and Professional Education
in St. Petersburg. SUAI took active part in it. Alexander Beglov, Acting Governor of St.
Petersburg, Anatoly Chubais, Chairman of the Management Board of RUSNANO Management Company,
and Anatoly Turchak, President of the Public Organization of the Union of Industrialists and
Entrepreneurs of St. Petersburg, took part in the solemn opening ceremony of the salon.
Yulia Antokhina, Rector of SUAI, President of the Russian ISA Section 2014, presented the
Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education, Marina Borovskoy, the SUAI exhibition stand
with educational programs of the University and students' innovative developments. Exhibited
developments are included in educational programs and are the result of an open accelerator,
which is included in the work of the SUAI Engineering School, where three laboratories
operate - the Internet of Things, Robotics and Corporate Security. Thus, in the SUAI,
project-oriented training is implemented throughout the entire training cycle from
undergraduate to graduate. The Deputy Minister spoke to the students who submitted the
projects. Later the panel discussion on the topic of “Export of Russian education:
challenges of the time” took place. One of the speakers of the panel discussion was the
Vice-Rector for Educational Technologies and Innovation Activities of the SUAI, a member of
the Russian section of the ISA, Professor Vladislav Shishlakov. He shared with the audience
the SUAI experience in the international aerospace programs.
On November 26-30 in Moscow at the site of the 75th pavilion of the Exhibition of National
Economic Achievements, the final competition was held as part of the II National
Inter-University Championship of Professional Skill in WorldSkills standards. Over 400
contestants took part in the professional skill competitions - students from 93 leading
Russian universities from 43 regions of the country, who showed the highest results in the
qualifying stages of their teams. In the championship final 44 competences in seven blocks
of professions were presented: “Construction and Construction Technologies ”,“ Transport and
Logistics ”,“ Education ”,“ Creativity and Design ”,“ Service Industry ”,“ Information and
Communication Technologies ”,“ Production and Engineering Technologies ”. The qualifying
championships among the Universities started on October 1, 2017. They were conducted by more
than 100 Russian higher educational institutions throughout Russia, including the St.
Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation. In the final, students of the SUAI
won gold medals for the competence of the “Internet of Things”, silver medals for the
competence of “Corporate protection from internal threats to information security” and
“Space Systems Engineering”, bronze medals for the competence of “Software solutions for
business” and “Internet marketing”. The plenary discussion “Universities of Competences:
practical skills in the focus of higher education” became the highlight of the business
program of the Finalcompetition. The discussion was attended by representatives of leading
universities of the country, state corporations, the Union of Young Professionals
(Worldskills Russia), and various development institutions. The plenary discussion
participants discussed the best practices of applied educational programs and their
replication, training methodologies, teaching staff, competence assessment technologies, as
well as key nodes (principles and technologies) of the network of universities for the
development and training of specialists capable of creating new complex products.The
position of engineering education in the discussion was presented by the rector of SUAI, the
president of the Russian section of ISA 2014, professor Yulia Antokhina. In her speech, she
noted the importance (from the point of view of practice-oriented learning) of direct
contacts with both industrial and technological partners, carriers of modern technologies,
creating a link between the university and the industrial partner. A great work on
organizing and conducting competitions was done by the chief expert of the championship and
the manager of competence “Corporate protection against internal threats to information
security”, the head of the Department of Informatization of SUAI, a member of the Russian
section of ISA, Sergeev Anton Valerievich. Participation in WorldSkills was a difficult
creative challenge, allowing to gain invaluable experience of full-fledged competition in
the specialty, to obtain an independent assessment of professional qualifications,
stimulating the desire for active development. The cooperation between SUAI and WorldSkills
began in February 2017, when Yulia Antokhina, Professor, Rector of SUAI, President of the
ISA Russian Section 2014, and the Director of the Young Professionals WorldSkills Russia
Association Robert Urazov signed a memorandum of understanding for the participants of the
FutureSkills international working group ( "Professions of the future"). In April 2018, on
the basis of the SUAI Engineering School was opened a joint InfoWatch and SUAI laboratory,
where students actively study and participate in projects and prepare for competitions on
the competence “Corporate protection against internal threats to information security».
On November 19 at the Leonardo da Vinci Scientific and Exhibition Hall of the SUAI was held
the extended meeting of the scientific seminar with the RAS Academician, Doctor of
Economics, Professor A.G. Aganbegyan and the Russian section of the ISA. During this meeting
the Chairman of the Board of the LDC MIBS Group of Companies (“ The Medical Diagnostic
Center of the International Institute of Biological Systems ”) - Arkady Zinovyevich Stolpner
made the report on “Knowledge Economy: Public-Private Partnership in newest technologies in
health care”. The history of the first center of the "MIBS" began with the partnership of
S.M. Berezina and A.Z. Stolpner and the purchase of one used foreign magnetic resonance
imager. Thanks to the well-functioning, efficient use of the purchased equipment, it was
possible to achieve quick payback and channel the proceeds to expand the network of MRI
centers. Currently, this largest network has more than 90 centers united by a single
telemedicine connection, with the best equipment in 68 cities of Russia, a radiosurgery
clinic (gamma and cyber knives), stereotactic radiotherapy and general oncology, 3 full PET
centers. There are about 400 doctors and 2500 representatives of the medical centers (the
personnel are trained by the center independently) working in the MIBS . The latest
achievement of MIBS was the opening in St. Petersburg of the country's only Center for
Proton-Radiation Therapy, equipped with the most modern, sophisticated high-tech
equipment.Since 2015, MIBS changed its name to “Medical Institute named after S.M.
Berezin”.All projects were carried out without borrowing, only with the use of funds from
private investors and operating profit. The first LDC "MIBS" began its work in St.
Petersburg in 2003. Since 2012, the annual number of patients admitted to the LDS MIBS is
more than 1,300,000 people.The following members of the Russian section of the ISA took an
active part in the discussion of the report: Antokhina Yu.A., Ovodenko A.A., Bestugin A.R.,
Kirshina I.A., Budagov A.S., Bobovich A.V.
In October 2018, the Regional Public Organization for Promoting the Effective Development of
Creative and Innovative Activities in Modern Education "Doctrine" held the All-Russian
Contest of Students "My Contribution to the Greatness of Russia". According to the results
of the qualifying competition, SUAI students Mikhailov Ilya and Dobrovolskaya Angelina
(President of the ISA SUAI student section) were invited to Moscow to participate in the
All-Russian Conference. On October 27, the students spoke at the conference, showing good
results. Angelina Dobrovolskaya (her supervisor - an active member of the Russian section of
the ISA Nikolai Nikolayevich Mayorov) was awarded a gold medal and a 1 degree diploma, and
Mikhailov Ilya received a silver medal and a 2 degree diploma. Also, the scientific advisors
and the rector of SUAI Yuliya Antokhina (President of the ISA 2014 Russian Section) were
awarded for training participants.
From October 1 to October 5, the 21st International Youth Scientific Conference “Wave
Electronics and its Applications in Information and Telecommunication Systems” was held at
the SUAI. More than 110 scientists from Russia and foreign countries took part in its work.
Among the participants were scientists from Russia, Belarus, China and Germany. The
conference worked in four sections: “Acousto-optic”, “Acoustoelectronics”, “Optical methods
of information processing”, “Processing and transmission of information in infocommunication
systems”. The members of the Russian section of the ISA Yu.A. Antokhina, A. A. Ovodenko,
K.V. Losev, A.R. Bestugin, A.M. Tyurlikov, A.A. Ovchinnikov, A.V. Sergeev, and the members
of the student section of the ISA SUAA Graduate students: Kazakov V., Paraskun A., Shelest
M. took an active part in the preparation and holding of the conference.
On October 1, at the extended session of the seminar of A.G. Aganbegyan, Academician of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Economics, Professor, and the Russian section of the
ISA, the well-known Russian entrepreneur and investor Zakhar Davidovich Smushkin made a
report on “New Approach to the Development of Territories” The central point of the report
was the project of the satellite city "Yuzhny". This is a large-scale development project,
which will be located in the Pushkin district of St. Petersburg. The satellite city will be
located on the territory of more than 2 thousand hectares in the Pushkin district of St.
Petersburg, of which 350 hectares are reserved for parks and public areas. The satellite
city will provide 15,000 jobs. One of the first objects on the territory of the satellite
city will be the scientific and educational innovation center "ITMO Highpark". For the
design of the satellite city "Yuzhny" a dynamic digital model of modeling development is
used. The model combines diverse data on the territory, which until now was processed
separately: master plan and architectural design, transport and engineering infrastructure,
provision of social facilities, economics, taxes, investments. Basing on the data entered,
the model generates the forecasts necessary for the user, for example, the intensity of
traffic flows in five years or the required amount of investment in the project and return
on investments. The members of the Russian section of the ISA Antokhina Yu.A., Ovodenko
A.A., Shishlakov V.F., Budagov A.S., Fetisov V.A., Pavlov I.A. were actively involved in the
discussion of the report
September 27-30, Shanghai Polytechnic University (SSPU), one of the leading technical
universities of the People’s Republic of China, hosted the prestigious Global Partnership
Week, providing representatives of various institutions of higher education from all over
the world a convenient platform for communication and cooperation. The SUAI delegation,
which was headed by the SUAI rector Antokhina Yu.A., included: Boer V.M., Losev K.V., Pavlov
I.A. (all active members of the Russian section of the ISA). The topics of the Global
Partnership Week 2018 were the interaction of educational institutions and industry,
training of qualified personnel in the aerospace industry, issues of scientific and
technical exchange, as well as the promotion of innovation and entrepreneurship development.
Yulia Antokhina, SUAI Rector, made a presentation in the 2018 Global Partnership Week on the
SUAI methods of teaching students in key specialties, as well as the SUAI experience of
cooperation with leading Russian and international companies in high-tech industries.
Mayorov Nikolai Nikolayevich, Deputy Director of the Institute of Aerospace Instruments and
Systems of the SUAI, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor presented a
monograph published in 2018 “Forecasting the development of marine passenger terminals” to
the ISA Knowledge Center in the Russian Federation.
On September 21, SUAI and Skoltech signed a joint agreement on the opening of the Competence
Center of the National Technological Initiative (CC STI) in the NWFD in the area of
"Wireless and Internet Technologies of Things". The opening of the STI Competence Center was
held at the Central Museum of Communications named after AS Popov within the framework of
the All-Russian forum in the field of information and communication technologies
«IT-Dialogue 2018. Digital equality of regions». The solution of scientific, technical and
educational tasks in the field of wireless communications and the Internet of things that
will help to overcome the barriers and difficulties facing the Russian Federation and the
world as a whole is the key goal of the Center. In the first part of the event there was a
discussion within the framework of the Roundtable on the definition of goals, objectives and
road map of the Competence Center of the STI.It was attended by members of the government of
St. Petersburg, representatives of such universities as the State University of Aerospace
Instrumentation (SUAI), the State Electrotechnical University "LETI" them. V.I.Ulyanov
(Lenin), State University of Telecommunications named after Professor MA. Bonch-Bruevich
(SPbGUT), employees of Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (SkTech),
representatives of JSC "Technopark of St. Petersburg", as well as other interested persons.
The SUAI delegation included the active members of the ISA Russian section, professors:
Antokhina Yu.A., Bestugin A.R., Tyurlikov A.M., Shishlakov V.F., associate professors Losev
K.V., and Sergeev A.V. After the Round Table was concluded, the signing ceremony of the
agreement on the opening of the Competence Center of the National Technological Initiative
on the NWFD in the field of "Wireless Communication Technologies and the Internet of Things"
was held with the participation of the SUAI rector Yulia Anatolyevna Antokhina and the
Vice-President for Work with Industry and Public Authorities of "Skoltech" Alexei
Konstantinovich Ponomarev.
The renowned specialist in the field of converter technology, power electronics and electric
drive, PhD in engineering, associate professor of the electromechanics and robotics
department of SUAI Martynov Alexander presented the book "Power Electronics" (written by
A.A. Martynov, O.B. Chernysheva) published by the authors to ISA's knowledge center in
Russia in
September 15, in St. Petersburg was held the first stage of the competition on computer
security SPb CTF (Capture the Flag) 2018. The CTF competitions series in Russia are
conducted by the Interregional public organization " Association of Chief Information
Security Officer" (IROO "ACISO") under the international Capture the Flag (CTF) rules. They
take the form of a game, in which the teams acquire and demonstrate their skills in the
field of information and informatics protection. The competitions are held annually with the
support of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, the Ministry of Education and Science of
Russia, FSTEC of Russia, IPI RAS, the Institute of Cryptography, Communication and
Informatics, the Federal Educational and Methodological Association (FUMO) for education in
the field of information security of higher educational institutions of the Russian
Federation and in coordination with the FSB of Russia. As a result of the first stage, the
SUAI team entered the top ten and went to the finals. In total, more than 60 teams took part
in the competitions. The captain of the SUAI team was a member of the ISA student section,
graduate student Mikhail Afanasyev.
From July 30 to August 4, Ekaterinburg hosted the III WorldSkills Professional Skills
Championship of the Rosatom state corporation AtomSkills-2018. AtomSkills is a large-scale
industry movement uniting more than 1000 specialists from 78 enterprises of the state
corporation, students of the educational institutions and veterans of the nuclear industry.
For Rosatom, this is the main instrument for developing an environment for the exchange of
professional knowledge among generations, ensuring sustainable development and achieving of
Rosatom's strategic goals. The corporate championship is held according to the international
standards of WorldSkills. In 2018, among the 27 competitive competences, the competence
"Corporate protection against threats to internal information security" was created, with
the active participation of SUAI and its industrial partners. It is natural that SC Rosatom
entrusted the organization of the competition for corporate protection of instructed to the
SUAI as a creator of competencies that has both significant experience in carrying out
various projects in the field of information security and championships of all levels in
accordance with WorldSkill standards. The active member of the ISA Russian Section, the head
of the Informatization Department of the SUAI Anton Valerievich Sergeev (the main competence
expert) and the assistant of the Department of Infocommunication Technologies of the SUAI
Nikolay Valentinovich Matveev (deputy chief expert) were responsible for the preparation and
conduct of competitions for the competence "Corporate protection from threats to internal
information security" . The technical support was provided by the representative of the
company InfoWatch - the industrial SUAI partner. For 5 days, specialists of the Rosatom
divisions and educational institutions from different regions of the country, who had
undergone serious preliminary selection during the qualifying stages, competed for the title
of the strongest internal security officers on the IEC Ekaterinburg-Expo site. And the
experts of the SUAI monitored compliance of the rules for evaluating participants acording
to the WorldSkills standards, provided impartiality and fairness of refereeing, as well as
guaranteed uninterrupted operation of the equipment and prompt elimination of the arising
malfunctions. The tasks of the participants in the "Corporate Protection Against Internal
Threats" competency included the analysis of the deployed IT infrastructure of the
enterprise, the search for the vulnerabilities in it, the normative provision of protection
measures, the deployment and use of the system to prevent the leakage of confidential
information and protect organizations from internal information security threats (DLP
-system) InfoWatch Traffic Monitor. Winners and prize-winners of AtomSkills-2018, in
addition to a significant monetary prize, were given the opportunity to participate in the
WorldSkills Hi-Tech - Russian national championship of working professions of high-tech
industries in Rosatom, which will be held in October 2018 in Ekaterinburg.
On June 27th an exhibition of graduation projects carried out by students of universities of
St. Petersburg on assignment of the executive bodies of state power of St. Petersburg
"Students of the city of 2018" was held in St. Petersburg. Four graduates of the SUAI of
2018, who won the Contest, were granted the right to carry out their graduation projects.
Two of those graduation projects were supervised by the Doctor of Technical Sciences,
Professor Semenova Elena Georgievna (Director of the Institute of Innovation and Basic
Master's Training of the SUAI, President of the Russian section of ISA in 2011).
Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Vladimir V. Kirillov, who visited the exhibition, carefully
studied the exposition of the SUAI projects and thanked the students and the supervisors.
Yulia A. Antokhina, the President of the Russian section of ISA in 2014, introduced the
students and their projects to the vice governor.
On June 27th the best graduates of St. Petersburg universities of 2018 were congratulated at
the Atrium of the Commandant's House of the Peter and Paul Fortress. On the Youth Day, the
best graduates of the city's universities received memorable gifts from the hands of St.
Petersburg Vice-Governor Vladimir Kirillov. The best graduate of the SUAI in 2018 was the
Master of the Institute for Innovation and Master Degree Basic Training Anastasia
Petrushevskaya - the winner of many competitions and olympiads in the field of scientific
and technical creativity, the laureate of the Presidential and Government Grant of St.
Petersburg, a member of the SUAI student section of the ISA. The rector of the SUAI
Professor Yulia A. Antokhina (President of the Russian section of the ISA in 2014) and the
Director of the Institute for Innovation and Master Degree Basic Training Professor Elena G.
Semyonova (President of the ISA Russian Section in 2011) congratulated the laureate.
The Russian section of the ISA received a Letter of Gratitude from the exhibition company
Expotronica.
On June 18th a regular meeting of the Presidium of the ISA Russian section was held at the
Russian ISA headquarters. The meeting was chaired by the SUAI Rector, the President of the
ISA Russian section in 2014, Yulia Anotkhina, and the head of the ISA representative office
in Russia, the President of the SUAI, Anatoly A. Ovodenko. The report for the first half of
2018 was made by the President of the ISA section of Russia in 2018, the Director of the
SUAI Institute of Entrepreneurship Technologies, Doctor of Economics Artur S. Budagov. The
members of the Presidium discussed the draft plan of preparation for the 25th anniversary of
the Russian section of the ISA in St. Petersburg.
Yulia A. Antokhina, the SUAI Rector, the President of the Russian section of the ISA in
2014, was awarded the academic title of Professor by the Order of the Ministry of Education
and Science of the Russian Federation No. 630/nk dated 15.06.2018 "On conferring academic
titles of professor and associate professor". The members of the Presidium cordially
congratulated the Rector.
On May 24, Gerald Cockrell, Professor of the University of Indiana (USA), President of ISA
2009, SUAI Honorary Doctor took part in the final session of the internet seminar "Project
Management" at the NIIT Demonstration Hall of the SUAI. Professor Cockrell held the seminar
for the thirteenth time. During these years, about 340 students, post-graduate students,
SUAI teachers and professors and members of the regular and student ISA sections took part
in the seminar. Arthur S. Budagov, President of the Russian ISA section in 2018, Doctor of
Economics, PhD of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Director of the SUAI Institute of
Entrepreneurship Technologies, on behalf of Professor Gerald Cockrell handed the University
of Indiana certificates to students and teachers who have successfully completed the
program.
On May 24, 2018 during the SUAI Academic Council meeting, students and postgraduates -
winners of the XIV European competition for the best ISA student scientific work, were
awarded the Honorary diplomas and gold medals by the rector of SUAI Julia A. Antokhina. The
awards were given to: Maria Shelest, Alexander Chabanenko, Bella Hakobyan, Alexandra
Shabanova, Rostislav Shaniyazov, Maxim Tarala. The University team won the overall team
competition.
On May 24 a solemn ceremony of awarding the winners of the open qualifying championship on
the basis of the SUAI Engineering School was held. In 2018, the championship was held for
the second time and this event was firmly included in the number of the largest WorldSkills
events, held in St. Petersburg. The contest was attended by more than 100 students and
experts from 5 educational organizations of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Competitions were
held in six areas: software solutions for business, space systems engineering, Internet of
things, corporate protection against internal information security threats, Internet
marketing, recruiting. Competences "recruiting" and "Internet marketing" were presented by
the Moscow State Educational Complex (MGOK). The rest were represented by the experts of
SUAI together with its technological and industrial partners. The representatives of the
SUAI industrial partners - Roskosmos, Lenpoligrafmash, Ikoroft, InfoWatch, as well as the
committees of the city government visited the championship grounds. At the awards ceremony,
which took place in the SUAI scientific and exhibition center "Da Vinci", the holders of
three prize places for each competence were awarded the diplomas and gifts, and experts
received certificates confirming their status in each area of competence. The awards were
presented to the winners: Julia Antokhina, the SUAI rector, the Chairman of the Organizing
Committee of the II open SUAI qualifying championship on Worldskill Russia standards, the
president of the Russian section of the ISA 2014; Alexander R. Bestugin, the director of the
SUAI Institute of radio engineering, electronics and communications, the president of the
Russian section of the ISA 2013; Anton V. Sergeev, the head of the SUAI Informatization
Department, Active Member of the Russian ISA Section, Chief Expert of the WordsSkill Russia
Competence "Corporate Protection Against Internal Information Security Threats". The result
of the qualifying tournament determined the students that will take part in the National
Interuniversity Championship according to WorldSkills standards, which will be held at the
end of 2018 in Moscow. The mission of the WorldSkills World Association is the development
of high professional standards. To achieve this goal, professional (including new digital
professions) competitions are organized at different levels for young people under the age
of 22. In our country this idea has received a new development in the form of FutureSkills -
the Russian initiative for organizing competitions and research in the field of competencies
representing the future profession. In 2017, SUAI joined the international FutureSkills
working group, which is engaged in the search and development of the "competencies of the
future" that will be the most demanded in the next decade. Open qualifying higher school
championship WorldSkills Russia is a new stage in the development of this cooperation.
By the Committee for Science and Higher Education Order No. 47, 07 05.2018, the St.
Petersburg Government Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of higher and
secondary vocational education in 2018 were awarded. The laureate of the Prize in the
nomination "Organizational solutions for the quality of training specialists", Irina A.
Kirshina, associate professor of the Department of Construction and Technology of Electronic
and Laser Equipment, deputy director of the Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and
Communications of the St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, was
awarded for her work "Creation of integrated innovative scientific and educational
structures as a tool for training professionals in the field of engineering and technical
education".
Director of the SUAI Institute of Innovative Technologies in Electromechanics and Robotics,
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, active member of the Russian section of the ISA
Vladislav F. Shishlakov donated the monograph "Electric Power Complex with Superconducting
Equipment: Development, Creation, Research» (authors: М.В. Burakov, S.V. Solenyi, S.S.
Timofeev, MA Turubanov, D.V. Shishlakov, V.F. Shishlakov. Edited by V.F. Shishlakova, Yu.A.
Antokhina, 2018) to the ISA Knowledge Center in Russia.
ISA awards.
Honorary diplomas of ISA were awarded to active members of the ISA Russian section:
Kirshina Irina Anatolievna, Pavlov Igor Aleksandrovich (President of the ISA Russian
Federation Section, 2010), Semionova Elena Georgievna (President of the ISA Russian
section, 2011), Artur Surenovich Budagov (President of the ISA Russian section, 2018)
The Meeting of the ISA 12 County Executive Committee in Madrid.
On April 27-28, 2018 the delegation of the Russian section of the ISA took part
in the work of the Executive Committee of the ISA European Council in Madrid.
At the meeting of the Executive Committee the results of the XIV ISA European
Students Paper Competition (ESPC-2018) were proclaimed. SUAI students and graduate
students – the members of the SUAI student section of the ISA have once again
shown excellent results. Gold medals are awarded to: Alexander Chabanenko,
Shanyazov Rostislav, Hakobyan Bella, Shabanova Alexandra, Shelest Maria, Tarala
Mahim. Silver medals are awarded to Dobrovolskaya Angelina, Sokolova Julia,
Gerasimov Seraphim, Vinogradov Alexander. Bronze awards are received by Grigoryev
Eugene, Efimova Lyubov, Ryzhov Filip, Isakova Natalia and Emelyanov Georgy.
Traditionally, the winners will receive their awards from the hands of the SUAI
rector, the president of Russian section of the ISA in 2014, Antokhina Yulia
Anatolyevna at the meeting of the SUAI Scientist council on May 24, 2018.
Joint SUAI-InfoWatch Research Laboratory of Cyber-security.
The InfoWatch Group of Companies and SUAI opened a Joint SUAI-InfoWatch Research
Laboratory of Cyber-security. The agreement on the creation of the Laboratory
was signed on April 18, 2018 at the site of the Petersburg Digital Forum by the
SUAI rector (President of the Russian section of the ISA in 2014) Yulia Antokhina
and the President of InfoWatch Group Natalia I. Kasperskaya. Along with the signing
of the Agreement, the grand opening of a new Laboratory of the SUAI Internet
of Things Engineering School was held on April 18. During this event the President
of the InfoWatch group Natalia Ivanovna Kasperskaya made a speech. The purpose
of creating the Laboratory in the SUAI Internet of Things Engineering School
is the need for developing of innovative and educational activities, carrying
out research and developing work in the field of the information protection using
the technologies, solutions, products of InfoWatch Group. Opening of the Joint
Laboratory is a logical continuation of the close collaboration, which was outlined
between the SUAI and the InfoWatch Group in the field of information protection
and new educational technologies. It is planned that the Laboratory will become
the competence center for InfoWatch technologies in the North-West region and
a base for training specialists in the WorldSkills competence «Corporate protection
against internal IS threats» on a national scale. An excellent example of such
cooperation is the joint creation of the mentioned competence by the WorldSkills
standards in 2017. It was presented and aroused great interest at the IV National
WorldSkills Hi-Tech Championship in Ekaterinburg and at The National Sectoral
Championship of Digital Professions Digital Skills in Innopolis. The Competence
was received with great interest by the National Expert Community in the Field
of Information Security, as helping to improve practical training of the specialists
in the field of cybersecurity through the use of competitive elements
by the WorldSkills standards and InfoWatch advanced technologies.
71 SUAI International Scientific Student Conference.
The 71st International Scientific Student Conference was held in the period from
April 16 to April 20, 2018. It included the “XI International Society of Automation
(ISA) student research long distance conference”. Students and post-graduates
of six universities from the USA, Italy, Spain, the Russian Federation and Indonesia
made their presentations. The conference was led by Professor Gerald Cockrell
(president of ISA 2009), University of Indiana (USA). the organizing committee
of the conference provided SUAI students Shanyazov Rostislav and Dobrovolskaya
Angelina with the right to represent Russian students. The topics of their
presentations made in English were "The analysis of the gain in quadrature
amplitude modulation with exponential distribution "and "The automation of the
decision-making process of the passenger flows assessment on the basis of modeling
and performance of transport nodes ". Both reports aroused great interest among
the participants of the Conference. The work of Rostislav is supervised by the head
of the SUAI Informatization Management Office , an active member of the Russian
section of the ISA Sergeev Anton Valeryevich. The work of Angelina is supervised
by the Associate Professor of the Department of System Analysis and Logistics of SUAI,
an active member of the Russian section of the ISA Mayorov Nikolai Nikolaevich.
By the decision of the international jury the reports of SUAI students were recognized
as the best. Shaniyazov and Dobrovolskaya were awarded the Honorary Diplomas of the ISA.
The same ISA Diplomas were awarded to their scientific supervisors: Sergeev A.V.
and Mayorov N.N.
Open regional Young Professionals' Championship.
The 2nd stage of the Open St. Petersburg Region Young Professionals' Championship
(WorldSkill Russia) on the "Internet of things" concept was held at the site
of the SUAI Engineering School on March 4, 2018, Teams of students from St. Petersburg
colleges and young specialists of the city enterprises were invited to participate
in the competition. Age category: from 16 to 22 years old. The Championship brought
together teams and leading professional organizations' experts in the field
of "Internet of Things" The Internet of Things concept belongs to the Future
Skills category (Professions of the Future) and is aimed at training specialists
in integrated automation and robotization of production, using the most advanced
industrial technologies. The concept was created in 2016 with the support of PTC
and Fanuc companies. The opening took place in a friendly and businesslike atmosphere.
The welcoming speech to the participants of the Championship was held by the
representative of the Regional Coordination Center of WorldSkills in St. Petersburg
Smirnova Natalia Evgenievna and the chairman of the organizing committee of the
competition, the head of the SUAI Informatization Management Office , an active
member of the ISA Russian section Sergeev Anton Valeryevich.
February 5, the annual meeting of the ISA Presidium of the Russian Federation was held at
the ISA Headquarters. At the meeting chaired by the rector of SUAI, the president of the
Russian section of ISA in 2014, Yulia A. Antokhina and the head of ISA representative office
in Russia, the president of SUAI, Anatoly A. Ovodenko, the report on the work done in 2017
was made by the president of the Section in 2017, the director of the Institute of Aerospace
Instruments and Systems, doctor of technical sciences, professor Vladimir A. Fetisov. His
activity as president was approved by the members of the Presidium. Then the President of
the Russian section of ISA in 2018, the director of SUAI Institute of Entrepreneurship
Technologies, Doctor of Economic Sciences Artur S. Budagov presented the work plan for 2018.
On behalf of the ISA Executive Committee, the Head of the ISA Representative Office in
Russia, Professor Anatoly A. Ovodenko awarded Vladimir. A Fetisov with the special Badge of
Honor of the Section President. At the meeting of the Presidium, the results of the election
for the position of the president-secretary of the Russian section of ISA were announced.
The position will be taken up by the director of the SUAI Institute of Continuous and
Distance Education, Doctor of Technical Sciences Sergei V. Michurin, who will take office as
the section president on January 1, 2019.
Mr. Ugo Baggi (Italy) took office as Vice-President of ISA District 12 on 1 January 2018. He
will lead the District 12 for two years until December 31, 2019.
Mr. Paul Gruhn (USA) was elected as ISA's President-Elect Secretary at the Annual Meeting of
ISA Delegates in October 2017. He will replace Mr. Curtis at the top post in ISA on January
1, 2019.
Mr. Brian Curtis (Ireland) took office as President of ISA on 1 January 2018.
On the New Year's Eve, the Russian section of the International Automation Society (ISA)
received numerous greetings and congratulations from colleagues from Russia, Britain,
Ireland, Italy, Belgium, Spain, the USA, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Holland, Saudi Arabia.
Among those who have congratulated the Russian section of ISA are such famous universities
as MIT and the University of Indiana (USA), the University of Catania and Kore University of
Enna (Italy), the University of Valladolid (Spain).
The National Interuniversity Young Professionals’ Championship (WorldSkills Russia) for
university students was held in Moscow for the first time from November 28 to December 1,
2017 in the 75th pavilion of VDNH. More than 400 bachelors and specialists from 77 Russian
universities who performed the best during the qualifying stages took part in the
professional skills competition. Qualifying high school championships started on September
1, 2017. They were held by more than 60 Russian higher educational institutions throughout
Russia, including the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation. SUAI
took part in national competitions in three competencies: Internet of Things, Space Systems
Engineering and Software Solutions for Business. SUAI students Maxim Ustyuzhin and Anastasia
Kotova took first place and were awarded with gold medals of the championship in the
competence of Internet of Things. Internet of Things belongs to the Future Skills category
and is aimed at training specialists in integrated automation and production robotics using
the most advanced industrial technologies. The competence was created in 2016 with the
support of PTC and Fanuc. Another SUAI team consisting of Vadim Afanasyev, Mikhail Matveev
and Anastasia Ukolova took third place in the Space Systems Engineering. Great work on
preparing teams and experts for the championship was undertaken by the Internet of Things
Laboratory of SUAI Engineering School (headed by an active member of ISA Russian Section,
Anton V. Sergeev), SUAI Institute of Information Systems and Information Security (director
Andrei M. Tyurlikov) and SUAI Faculty of Secondary Professional Education (Dean Natalia A.
Chernova). These research and educational centers of SUAI that have long had direct contacts
with industrial partners, have built a system of training highly qualified specialists.
Success in the championship is a natural result of a modern training model based on real
industry challenges with the use of modern equipment and technologies.
November 14, Professor of the University of Indiana (USA), President of ISA in 2009,
Honorary Doctor of SUAI Gerald Cockrell held the first lesson of the 14th stream of the
project management webinar in the SUAI Demonstration hall of new information technologies.
Over the past years more than 350 students, postgraduates, teachers of SUAI as well as
members of the regular and student ISA sections took part in the webinar.
In September, a delegation of students from Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace
Instrumentation (SUAI), led by a member of the Russian Section of ISA, Professor, Doctor of
Technical Sciences, Head of the Information and Network Technologies Department of SUAI
Leonid Osipov, took an active part in the international scientific and technical conference
on modern technologies in tasks of management, automation and information processing, which
is held annually in the city of Alushta. The conference program included more than 200
reports, most of which were presented by young specialists, post-graduate students and
students. The range of problems discussed within ten sections included a variety of topics
such as intelligent control systems, unmanned aerial vehicles and information technology in
various areas of instrumentation. SUAI students honorably presented the university. Reports
presented by Maria Ivanova, Alexander Sergeev, Anna Bobina, Alexei Kim, Munira Gusmanova and
Dmitry Pechenin were recognized as the best. They were awarded honorary diplomas and
valuable gifts.
On September 20, the 10th St. Petersburg International Innovation Forum, the 21st
International Forum "Russian Industrialist" as well as the City Fair of Vacancies and
Training Jobs opened at the convention and exhibition centre Expoforum in St. Petersburg.
The opening ceremony was attended by the Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko,
State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Oleg
Fomichev, Chairman of the Management Board of Rusnano Management Company LLC Anatoly
Chubais, President of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of St. Petersburg
Anatoly Turchak and General Director of Expoforum-International LLC Sergey Voronkov.
SUAI presented student developments in the exposition organized by the Committee for Science
and Higher Education. The theme of the exposition, representing forefront of modern research
and innovative developments of universities and scientific organizations, was the Year of
Ecology. The students and their works were represented by the Rector of SUAI, the President
of the Russian section of ISA in 2014, Yulia Antokhina and by active members of the Russian
section of ISA, the head of the Informatization Department of SUAI Anton Sergeev and the
senior lecturer of the Department of Electromechanics and Robotics of SUAI Sergey Solyonyi.
Anatoly Chubais was especially interested in the automated system for solar cell cleaning
presented by the Institute of Innovative Technologies in Electromechanics and Robotics of
SUAI. The Chairman of the Management Board of Rusnano Management Company LLC noted the high
practical importance and relevance of this project and offered his assistance in the search
for customers.
The active member of the Russian section of ISA, the director of the Institute of Innovative
Technologies in Electromechanics and Robotics of SUAI, doctor of technical sciences,
professor Vladislav Shishlakov presented to the ISA Knowledge Center in the Russian
Federation books "Electricity systems and networks" and "Basics of electricity supply to
industry facilities" published by V.F. Shishlakov, O.Ya. Solyonaya and S.V. Solyonyi in
2017.
July 8, in Milan, the results of the XIII ISA European student paper competition (ESPC-2017)
were announced. Once again, great success was achieved by students and graduates of SUAI.
Gold medals are awarded to Vasily Kazakov, Georgy Korol, Arthur Paraskun, Maria Shelest and
Evgenia Petrashkevich. Silver medals are adjudged to Alexandra Okhremenko, Alyona Tolubaeva,
Evgeny Grigoriev, Ivan Yudin, Yaroslav Baranov, Vitaly Ushakov and Maria Vershinina. Bronze
medals are awarded to Artemy Zhuravlev, Maria Nikishina, Svetlana Reshetilova, Leonid
Mikheev, Alexey Perfiryev and Ksenia Pozharova.
July 6-8, the delegation of the Russian section of ISA headed by the president of the
section, the director of the Institute of Aerospace Instruments and Systems, Professor
Vladimir A. Fetisov, took part in the work of the Executive Committee of ISA District 12
(EMEA) in Milan. At the meeting of the Executive Committee, the results of the election of
the Vice-President-Secretary of District 12 were announced. Mr. Ugo Baggi (Italy) is going
to take up this post. He will replace the current vice-president of District 12 on January
1, 2019.
June 29, in St. Petersburg, an exhibition of graduation projects carried out by students of
St. Petersburg universities "Students to the City 2017" was held by order of St. Petersburg
state authority. The five graduates of SUAI of 2017 who won the Contest were granted the
right to carry out graduation projects. A member of ISA student section, Natalia Makarchuk,
has developed a project on measures to improve the organization of ground municipal
passenger transport in conjunction with the existing and projected lines of the St.
Petersburg metro system by order of the Committee for the Development of the Transport
Infrastructure of St. Petersburg. The graduation project was supervised by the Candidate of
Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Nikolai N. Mayorov (Deputy Director of SUAI
Institute of Aerospace Instruments and Systems, active member of the Russian Section of
ISA). The Vice Governor of St. Petersburg Vladimir V. Kirillov, who visited the exhibition,
took a close look at the exposition of SUAI and thanked the students and authorities. The
Rector of SUAI Yulia A. Antokhina, President of the Russian section of ISA in 2014, and the
President of SUAI Anatoly A. Ovodenko, Head of ISA Representative Office in the Russian
Federation, introduced the students and their works to the Vice Governor.
June 28, SUAI postgraduate student Vasily Kazakov and student Arthur Paraskun, active
members of ISA student section of SUAI, presented a report on Spectral measurements by
diffraction grating device with Fiber-optics system of signal transmission at the XX
International Conference for Young Researchers. The report aroused great interest of the
conference participants and was highly appreciated by the organizing committee.
June 27, in the atrium of the Peter and Paul Fortress the best graduates of higher
educational institutions of St. Petersburg were honored. The governor of the city Georgi S.
Poltavchenko, members of the government, rectors of higher educational institutions, heads
of military schools and academies and, of course, graduates and their family members took
part in the XV ceremony. SUAI was represented by the rector Yulia Antokhina, president of
the Russian section of ISA in 2014. The best graduate of SUAI in 2017 is Vitaly Ushakov,
silver prize-winner of the ISA European student paper competition (ESPC-2017).
On June 22 and 23, Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation took part
in GeekPicnic, the biggest Russian popular science festival held in Pulkovo Park, St.
Petersburg. This festival gathers annually tens of thousands of people keeping track of the
high-tech world and trying not to miss a single new gadget.
At the section of the University called SUAI Cosmoshow projects and products developed by
the students were represented. The Flying Train project based on superconductivity
technologies was very popular among the visitors as well as humanoid robot football players
that won RoboCup Russia Open 2017 under the guidance of SUAI students. These robots are
going to represent Russia at an international competition in Bangkok in the autumn. Other
products designed by SUAI students such as Robohand, 3D aerial photography system, solar
panel cleaning robot and electrostatic also captured visitors’ attention. The most
technologically advanced guests were interested in the Internet of Things developments
represented by an autonomous video surveillance system and by a special device identifying
smokers and propagandizing quitting smoking.
SUAI Cosmoshow became one of the most notable festival sites. The students’ work has been
led by active members of the Russian Section of ISA: Professor Vladislav Shishlakov,
Associate Professor Sergey V. Solenyi, Associate Professor Nikolai N. Mayorov and Senior
Lecturer Anton V. Sergeev.
Director of SUAI Institute of Continuous and Distance Education Sergey V. Michurin was
granted a Doctor of Technical Sciences Diploma in accordance with the order of the Ministry
of Education and Science dated 7.06.2017.
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Vice-Rector of SUAI for Research and Innovation,
President of the Russian section of ISA in 2007, Evgeny A. Kruk presented the monograph
“Optical Communications: Fiber Optical and Atmospheric” (2017) written by N. Sh. Blaunstein,
E.A. Kruk and M.B. Sergeev as a gift to ISA Knowledge Center in the Russia.
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Director of the Institute of Aerospace Instruments
and Systems of SUAI, President of the Russian section of ISA in 2017 Vladimir A. Fetisov
presented the manual "Introduction to intelligent transport systems" (2017) written by
S.A. Andronov and V.A. Fetisov as a gift to ISA Knowledge Center in Russia.
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Major Problem-Oriented
Computer Complexes of SUAI, President of the Russian section of ISA in 2005 Alexander
P. Shepeta presented the monograph "Applied Aspects of Electrodynamics" (2017) written
by N.Sh. Blaunstein, M.B. Sergeev, A.P. Shepeta as a gift to ISA Knowledge Center in
Russia.
By the Decree No. 383 of the Government of St. Petersburg of May 23, 2017 on awarding prizes
of the Government of St. Petersburg for outstanding scientific results in the field of
science
and technology in 2017 the laureates of the Prize of the Government of St. Petersburg and
the
St. Petersburg Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences were approved. On May
26,
the Smolny Assembly Hall hosted the awards presentation to the laureates. Among the award
recipients there are a number of active members of the Russian section of ISA:
— In nomination of social sciences the V.V. Novozhilov award was granted to the
Rector of SUAI,
Doctor of Economic Sciences Yulia A. Antokhina for a series of theoretical and applied
materials
on the development of the theory of situational project quality management in autonomous
universities an on innovative quality assurance of higher education in the context
of international integration.
— In nomination of organizational solutions for improving the quality of specialist
training
award was granted to the team of authors consisting of Alexey A. Bobtsov, director of
the
megafaculty of computer technologies at the ITMO University and Vladislav F. Shishlakov,
director of the Institute of Innovative Technologies in Electromechanics and Robotics of
SUAI
for improving the quality of training of engineering staff in the field of cyberphysical
systems.
— In nomination of electric and radio engineering, electronics and information
technology A.S.
Popov award was granted to the Deputy Director for Research of St. Petersburg Institute
for
Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Technical
Sciences
Andrey L. Ronzhin for a series of materials on the development of multimodal systems of
surrounding intellectual space.
— In nomination of scientific achievements improving the quality of training of
specialists
and highly qualified personnel award was granted to the team of authors consisting of
Alexander
F. Kryachko, head of the Department of Radio-engineering and Fiber-optic Complexes of
SUAI,
Nikolay N. Mayorov, associate professor of the Department of System Analysis and
Logistics
of SUAI and Valeriy A. Matyash, associate professor of the Department of Computer
Technologies
and Software Engineering of SUAI, for the work “Scientific and Practical Foundations for
the
Formation of High-tech Qualifications of Graduates of SUAI”.
Director of the Demonstration hall of new information technologies of SUAI A.V. Bobovich
visited the University of Indiana (ISU) during the period of 10 May to 13 May, 2017.
During his stay in the United States, a joint work plan for the year 2018 was signed
within the framework of the Cooperation Agreement between SUAI and ISU. A.V. Bobovich
made a presentation at the meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Terre Haute section and took
part in the graduation ceremony of ISU 2017 and in the work of ISA H&A committee.
From May 17 to May 19, 2017, the Aerospace Bruisers team of the joint research and
development
Laboratory for the Design and Programming of Robotic Systems of the Institute of Innovative
Technologies in Electromechanics and Robotics of SUAI and the St. Petersburg Institute of
Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences took part in the open National
Stage of the International competition in robotics RoboCupRussiaOpen 2017, which was held in
Tomsk. 140 teams from 14 cities of Russia took part in the competition. The Aerospace
Bruisers
team took 1st place in the RoboCup Humanoid Soccer KidSize League and will represent the
Russian
Federation at the international RoboCup competition in the Asia-Pacific region in December
2017
in Bangkok, Thailand.
March 15, 2017
The 70th anniversary of the Head of ISA Representative Office in Russia, the President of
ISA Russian Section in 2002, the President of SUAI, Professor Anatoly A. Ovodenko, was
celebrated. In a festive atmosphere Anatoly A. Ovodenko received an Order for Service to
Saint Petersburg from the Governor of the city. This order is the highest regional award of
Saint Petersburg, which is generally awarded to citizens who have flawlessly worked in
organizations, institutions and enterprises of St. Petersburg for at least 10 years and made
a significant contribution to the development of the city.
Yulia A. Antohina, the rector of SUAI, presented Anatoly A. Ovodenko an Honorary Diploma on
behalf of ISA Executive Committee. Colleagues congratulated cordially the hero of an
anniversary.
February 16, 2017
Rector of SUAI, President of the Russian section of ISA of 2014 Yulia Antokhina,
CEO of the Union of Young Professionals (WorldSkills Russia) Robert N. Urazov
and director of Center for Strategic Research “North-West” Foundation Marina S. Lipetskaya
signed a memorandum of understanding for the participants of the international working
group FutureSkills.
The Boiling Point coworking center in St. Petersburg hosted FutureSkills design session
on new human resources for the IoT and IT which included several important events.
The most significant of these was the signing of a memorandum of understanding between
SUAI and the Union of Young Professionals representing a global not-for-profit
membership association WorldSkills International (WSI) in Russia.
WSI's mission is to draw attention to technical and technological professions and
to create conditions for the development of high professional standards. The main
activity of the Association is the organization and carrying out of professional
competitions of various levels for young people under the age of 22 years.
FutureSkills is a Russian initiative for holding competitions of competence representing
the professions of the future and for research in the field of new professions
in the framework of WorldSkills Russia and WorldSkills Hi-Tech championships.
The main objective of FutureSkills is the search and development of the competences
of the future that will be most in demand in the next decade.
SUAI is a national leader in the field of the Internet of Things (IoT), the industrial
Internet and industrial automation, cloud technologies, machine learning and information
security. In partnership with industry leaders, such as Intel and Dell EMC, the first
Master's program in the area of IoT was launched in SUAI. It is therefore not surprising
that the experience and expertise of SUAI has interested WorldSkills association in terms
of creation of professions of the future. As a result of the signing of the memorandum,
in the near future SUAI will become a platform for testing of advanced competencies
on the basis of SUAI school of the Internet of things.
The fact that SUAI is already now preparing real professionals of the future could be
verified
on the exhibition of the best student projects in the area of the Internet of Things.
It should be noted that most of the exhibits were made by the participants of the Open
Makerton of the Internet of Things, which was held in SUAI from 13 to 15 February.
The exhibition has attracted great interest of participants of FutureSkills design session
on new human resources for the IoT and IT as well as of those who took part in the parallel
working session on design of a model of the University of NTI.
New arrivals in the Knowledge Centre of ISA at SUAI
Doctor of Technical Sciences, director of the Institute of Innovative Technologies
in Electromechanics and Robotics of SUAI Vladislav F. Shishlakov has donated ISA knowledge
center in the Russian Federation the book on Improving the Quality of Training of Engineers
in the Field of Cyber Physical Systems, published in 2016.
Ph.D in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Control in Technical
Systems of SUAI Mikhail V. Burakov has donated ISA knowledge center in the Russian
Federation
his monograph on Fuzzy Control of Anti-skid Automation.
February 9, 2017
At ISA headquarters in the Russian Federation the annual meeting of ISA Presidium of the
Russian Federation was held. At the meeting that was chaired by Head of ISA representatives
in the Russian Federation, Professor Anatoly A. Ovodenko, President of section in 2016,
Vice-Rector of SUAI Lyubov A. Timofeeva delivered a report on the activities done in 2016.
Her work as President of section was approved by the Presidium members. Then, President of
the Russian section of ISA in 2017, Director of Institute of Aerospace Instruments and
Systems of SUAI, Doctor, Professor Vladimir A. Fetisov introduced the plan of activities for
2017.In behalf of ISA Executive Board Head of ISA representatives in the Russian Federation,
Professor Anatoly A. Ovodenko awarded Lyubov A. Timofeeva a special sign of Past President
of section. The election results of the President-Secretary of the Russian section of ISA
were announced at the meeting. Director of Institute of Entrepreneurship Technologies of
SUAI, Doctor of Economics, PhD Arthur S. Budagov was elected to this post. He will assume
the presidency of the section on the 1st January, 2018.
On New Year’s Eve the Russian section of ISA received numerous greetings and congratulations
from colleagues from Russia, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, France, Spain, USA, Australia,
Brazil, Canada, Portugal, the Netherlands, Qatar. Among those that congratulated the Russian
section of ISA are traditionally known university centers as MIT, Indiana University,
University of Georgia (USA), University of Catania and University “Kore” (Italy), University
of Valladolid (Spain), Cork Institute of Technology (Ireland).
November 9, 2016
Professor of Indiana State University (USA) and ISA president
in 2009 Gerald Cockrell conducted the first class of 12th regular
webinar on Practical project management. The webinar was held at
the Demonstration hall of new information technologies of SUAI.
Professor Cockrell has been conducting webinars for students,
postgraduate students and lecturers of SUAI as well as for members
of ISA regular and student sections for twelve years. Over these
years, 278 people participated in the seminar. Every year the
webinar program includes 11 lectures. Participants who have
successfully completed the training receive a certificate of
Indiana State University.
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, President of SUAI, Head of ISA
headquarters in Russian Federation A. A. Ovodenko and Doctor of Technical
Sciences, Professor, director of the Institute of Radio Engineering,
Electronics and Communications of SUAI, President of the Russian section
of ISA of 2013 A. R. Bestugin presented to ISA Knowledge Centre in the
Russian Federation the book Heat-Resistant Antennas of Hypersonic Space
Vehicles. Volume 3. Space radio links, which was published in 2016.
In October a new designated Power electronics laboratory opened for academic
activities at Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation.
The laboratory contains nine modern laboratory benches with microprocessor
control systems. During the laboratory work students study arrangement,
operating principle and characteristics of semiconductor devices and transducers
and acquire skills of experimental research of different purpose semiconductor
converters. At least 25 laboratory classes for such courses as Power electronics,
Basics of converter equipment, Energy electronics, Converter installations
of control systems, Semiconductor converters of electrical power can be performed
at the laboratory. All laboratory classes are provided with study guides worked
out by Aleksandr A. Martynov, a well-known expert in the field of converter
equipment, an active member of the Russian section of ISA, associate professor
of SUAI and candidate of technical sciences.
October 28, 2016
The results of e-voting were announced and Mr. Brian Curtis (Ireland) was
elected the President-Secretary of ISA. Also in October, the election of the
President-Secretary of the Russian section of ISA was held. Doctor of Economics,
PhD, Director of Institute of Entrepreneurship Technologies of SUAI Arthur S. Budagov
was elected to this post. He will assume the presidency of the section on 1 January,
2018. Professor, Doctor, Director of Institute of Aerospace Instruments and Systems
of SUAI Vladimir A. Fetisov is the President of the Russian section of ISA in 2017.
Regular meeting of District 12 Executive Board ISA will be held on May 20-24, 2017
in Bergamo (Italy).
October 20-22, 2016, Saint Petersburg
In plenary session hall at Nikolaevsky Palace the
international scientific and practical forum on Innovative technologies as the
basis for society development strategy and the jubilee meeting of International
Union of Scientific and Engineering Association dedicated to the 150th anniversary
since the establishment of the Russian Technical society took place. Representatives
of national scientific and engineering associations, professional societies
and associations of the Russian Federation, leading scientists, representatives
of Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations,
Ministry of Education and Science, St. Petersburg Government, business, industry,
Russian and foreign universities participated in the forum. A member of the forum
and the delegate to the meeting was A.V. Bobovich (Vice-President of ISA, 2007-2008).
October 18, 2016
In SUAI lecture hall Gerald Cockrell, Professor of Indiana State
University, ISA President (2009) conducted the final session of US-Russian
remote seminar “Project management”. It is the 11th seminar organized by Prof.
Cockrell for SUAI students, post-graduates, lecturers and ISA sections members.
Doctor of Economics, PhD, Director of Institute of Entrepreneurship Technologies
Arthur S. Budagov (member of the Russian section of ISA) awarded Certificates
of Indiana State University on behalf of Prof. Gerald Cockrell to students and
lecturers who completed the course successfully.
September 14-20, 2016, Republic of Crimea, Alushta
The SUAI delegation headed by a member
of the Russian section of ISA, Professor, PhD, Head of department of Information
and Network Technologies Leonid A. Osipov took an active part in the work of XXV
International Scientific and Technical Conference "Modern technologies in control,
automatics and information processing". SUAI bachelors V.K. Kozyrevsky, N.A. Golos,
A.A. Zausalin, S.S. Tkachev and master D.V. Pechenin received diplomas and prizes.
New addition to ISA Knowledge Center. Rector of SUAI,
Doctor of Economics, President of the Russian section of ISA
in 2014 Yulia A. Antokhina and Director of Institute of Radio
Engineering, Electronics and Communications, Doctor of Science,
President of the Russian section of ISA in 2013 Alexander
R. Bestugin presented the monograph “Development of navigation
technologies for flight security upgrade” to the ISA Knowledge
Center of Russian Federation.
July 1, 2016
Students-to-City-2016 Exhibition of Diploma Projects accomplished by students of Saint
Petersburg on the instruction of executive branch of government was held. Three graduates of
SUAI in 2016, members of ISA students’ section, who won the Competition, were entitled to
write Diploma Projects. Artyom Kashaev wrote the project on “Possible Applications of Wind
and Tide Energy in the North-West Region. Development script, possible project
implementation. Economic and ecological justification” for Energy and Engineering Support
Committee of St. Petersburg. The adviser was Vladislav F. Shishlakov, Director of Institute
of Innovative Technologies in Electromechanics and Robotics, Doctor, Professor. The work on
“Proxy Server Based High-load Applications Balancing” was accomplished by Vitaly Fundovoy
for the Informatization and Communications Committee of St. Petersburg. His adviser was
Evgeny A. Bakin, PhD, associate professor, participant of World Student Instrumentation
Games of ISA, former president of ISA students’ section. Kirill Gogolev under the guidance
of adviser Nikolay N. Mayorov , deputy director of Institute of Aerospace Instruments and
Systems, active member of the Russian section of ISA, wrote the project on “City quays in
St. Petersburg: Development Prospects, Problems, Solutions” for the Transport Committee of
St. Petersburg. Georgy S. Poltavchenko , governor of St.Petersburg, attended the Exhibition
and observed the SUAI stand to mark the highest level of the presented projects and thanked
the students and their supervisers. SUAI’s Rector Yulia A. Antokhina (President of the
Russian section of ISA in 2014) and President Anatoly A.Ovodenko (Head of ISA Headquarters
Russian Federation) introduced students and their projects to the Governor.
June 27, 2016
The official ceremony to honor best university graduates of Saint Petersburg was held for
the 14th time in St. Peter-and-Paul Fortress. The event was attended by the City
Vice-Governor Vladimir V. Kirillov, officials, rectors, heads of military schools and
academies and graduates with their families. SUAI was represented by Rector Yulia A.
Antokhina (President of the Russian section of ISA in 2014), President Anatoly A. Ovodenko
(Head of ISA Headquarters Russian Federation) and Director of Institute of Innovation and
Basic Master’s Training Elena G. Semyonova (President of the Russian section of ISA in
2011). The Best SUAI graduate is Alexey Kurlov, active member of ISA students’ section,
graduate of Institute of Innovation and Basic Master’s Training. While studying Alexey
gained the reputation of a brilliant student, revealing himself as a talented scientist and
researcher to be praised. He has written dozens articles in scientific magazines and
delivered many reports at conferences. Moreover, the results of his Master’s Thesis research
found practical application through the device that has already been implemented and
nowadays is considered at Federal Service for Intellectual Property.
June 23, 2016
At the meeting of SUAI Academic Board Rector Yulia A. Antokhina awarded the SUAI students
and postgraduates - XII European ISA (ESPC-2016) Best Student Research Winners – with
diplomas and medals. Gold medals were given to Alexander Sorokin, Alexander Chabanenko,
Vitaly Kuznetsov, Vasily Kazakov, Georgy Korol. Efim Golovin, Alexander Zelenin, Evgeny
Petrashkevich, Boris Oskolkov, Maria Makarenko, Ilya Ivanov and Maria Shelest received
silver medals. Alexander Vakulenko, Evgeny Grigoryev, Artemy Zhuravlev, Ivan Yudin, Yaroslav
Baranov, Alexander Kozhevin, Antonina Makeeva were awarded with bronze medals. The prize for
team competition went to Alexander Chabanenko, postgraduate, president of SUAI ISA students’
section.
May 19-21, 2016
The delegation of the Russian section of ISA chaired by the
President of the section, Vice-Rector of SUAI Lyubov A. Timofeeva
took part in the work of Executive Board of District 12 ISA (EMEA)
in Milan. On May, 20 was held a ceremony: ISA President Mr. James
Keaveney awarded the member of the Russian delegation Alexander V.
Bobovich with prize “Automation excellence in academics award”.
Alexander V. Bobovich is the first person who has received this
highly qualified ISA award in Europe launched in 2016.
February 10, 2016
Annual meeting of the Presidium of the Russian section of ISA was held at the headquarters.
The meeting was moderated by the head of the mission of ISA in the Russian Federation,
professor Anatoly Ovodenko. Vice rector of SUAI, the president of the section 2015
Konstantin Losev made a progress report for work through the year 2015. His work as
president was highly appreciated by the members of the Presidium. Then, the work plan for
2016 was addressed by President of the Russian section of ISA 2016, Vice Rector of SUAI
Lyubov Timofeeva. On behalf of the executive committee of ISA the head of the mission of ISA
in the Russian Federation, professor Anatoly Ovodenko awarded the special Badge of Honor of
the president of the section to Konstantin Losev. The results of the election of the new
president were announced. The new president secretary is the head of the Institute of
Aerospace Instruments and Systems, professor, doctor of engineering Vladimir Fetisov, who
will enter upon the office the 1 January 2017.
February 2, 2016
The President of the Russian section of ISA 2012, Vice Rector for studies and educational
work, Professor Viktor Boer celebrated his 60th anniversary. The Professor received cordial
congratulations from his colleagues. The head of the mission of ISA in the Russian
Federation professor Anatoly Ovodenko granted Viktor Boer with an Honorary Diploma, on
behalf of the executive committee.
Friends and colleagues of the ISA St.-Petersburg Russian section congratulate Dr. Victor
Boer on reaching his 60-th birthday and wish him good health and success.
January 25, 2016
Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation celebrated the 75th
Anniversary.
The famous University and the Russian regular and student sections of ISA, founded over 20
years ago on the basis of SUAI, received numerous congratulations including from the ISA
headquarters in North Carolina (USA). SUAI and Russian sections of ISA were granted with ISA
Badges of Honor.
January 21, 2016
The House of the Government of the Russian Federation held the event: Prime Minister of
Russia, Dmitry Medvedev awarded the Russian Federation Government Prize 2015 in the field of
Education to the Rector of SUAI, doctor of Economics, the President of the Russian Section
of ISA 2014 Julia Antokhina.
On the New Year's
Eve the Russian Section of the International Society of Automation (ISA) received numerous
colleagues’ greetings from Russia, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, France, Spain, the USA,
Australia, Brazil, Canada, Portugal, the Netherlands and Qatar. Well-known higher education
institutions, such as MIT, Indiana University, University of Georgia (USA), University of
Catania and Kore University (Italy), University of Valladolid (Spain) and Cork Institute of
Technology (Ireland), congratulated the Russian Section of ISA.
November 28, 2015
Friends and colleagues of the ISA St.-Petersburg Russian section congratulate Dr. Vladimir
Kraskin on reaching his 85-th birthday and wish him good health and success.
November 23, 2015
St.-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology and Design held a solemn ceremony
of summarizing results of the contest “Student of the Year”. Undergraduate student of
Institute of radio engineering, electronics and communication SUAI, an active member of the
students’ section of ISA, George Korol received the award “student of the year” in the
nomination “Best in scientific and technical creativity” from the hands of the Governor of
St.-Petersburg, Georgy Poltavchenko. This year the competition was attended by 165 students
from 35 universities of St.-Petersburg.
November 19, 2015
Rector of the St.-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, the President of
the Russian section of the International society of Automation, 2014, Doctor of Economics,
Yulia A. Antokhina, and Doctor of Technical Sciences, Head of the Department of SUAI, the
President of the Russian section of ISA 2011, Professor Elena G. Semenova for the work
“Complex of scientific-methodical provision of training in quality management,
standardization and Metrology in the system of Russian higher education” were nominated by
the Government of the Russian Federation in 2015 in the field of education and were awarded
the title “Laureate of the Government prize of the Russian Federation in the field of
education”.
October 21, 2015
St.-Petersburg hosted the international scientific forum “Days of science. St.-Petersburg
2015. New issues”. The President of the Russian section of ISA 2009, Doctor of technical
Sciences, corresponding member of RAS, Director of Institute of innovative technologies in
electro-mechanics and energy of SUAI, Professor, Lydia I. Chubraeva made a report on “The
Use of nano-materials in power engineering” at the section “Advanced materials for energy”.
The workshop was attended by the leading scientists in the field of energy industry,
innovators, representatives of management of Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Agency of
Scientific Organizations, the Ministry of education, Ministry of industry and trade and the
Ministry of economic development of the Russian Federation, representatives of St.
Petersburg Government, leading foundations and development institutions, business, industry,
and foreign universities.
October 18-22, 2015
San José (USA) hosted the international conference “Frontiers in Optics 2015/ Laser
Science”. SUAI and students’ section of ISA SUAI was represented by the undergraduate
student of the Department of designing and technology of electronic and laser tools, George
Korol. He made a report “Linearization of a transmission function of acousto-optic
modulator”. His article was published in the foreign collection, indexed in SCOPUS.
October 10-13, 2015
The delegation of the Russian section of ISA participated in the annual Assembly of the ISA
in the city of Louisville (USA).
September 24, 2015
Professor of Indiana State University, President of ISA 2009 Gerald Cockrell conducted the
final session of seminar “Project Management”. It was already the 10th seminar organized by
Professor Cockrell for students, postgraduate students and professors of SUAI and members of
regular and students’ sections of ISA.
Doctor of Economics, Director of the Institute of Technology Entrepreneurship of SUAI ,
member of the Russian section of ISA, Arthur S. Budagov was given the responsibility by
Indiana State University on behalf of professor Gerald Cockrell to present certificates to
students and professors of SUAI.
September 21-24, 2015
Toulouse (France), the center of the European aerospace industry, held international
conference “Remote Sensing-2015”, dedicated to distant sensing. Postgraduate student of the
Department of problem-oriented computer complexes of SUAI, a member of the students’ section
of ISA Vadim Nenashev participated in work of section “Analysis of SAR image modeling and
methods” with the report “The simulation Algorithm for SAR images based on the fluctuations
of the echo signal from the surface of the Earth”. His article was accepted for publication
in international journal, indexed in SCOPUS.
September 14-20, 2015
In the Republic of Crimea, Alushta, the delegation of St.-Petersburg State University of
Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI) headed by member of the Russian section of ISA, Doctor of
technical Sciences, head of the Department of information and network technologies of SUAI,
Professor Leonid A. Osipov took an active part in the work of the XXIV international
scientific and technical conference “Modern technologies in control, automatics and
information processing”. According to the results of work in different sections’ sessions,
undergraduate students K.V. Babanov and E.V. Filippova and post-graduate student V.A.
Kuznetsov were awarded honorary certificates and valuable gifts.
June 29, 2015
Saint Petersburg hosted the exhibition of project works made by St.-Petersburg universities
graduate students under the assignment of Executive public authorities of Saint Petersburg
“Students for the City 2015”. Three graduates of SUAI 2015, members of ISA student’s
section, winners of the Competition, were given the right to perform their research projects
under the order of the City Committees.
Under the order of the Committee on Energy and Engineering Support the work on “Evaluation
Criteria of Energy Security Settlements” was performed by Vladimir Ivasenko. The work on
“Modernization of Systems of Energy Saving by Introducing Energy Saving Technologies and
Materials” was fulfilled by Victor Skorobogatov. Both of graduate students performed their
works under the supervision of the Doctor of Technical Sciences, Corresponding member of
RAS, Professor Lydia I. Chubraeva (Director of the Institute of intelligent control systems
and nanotechnology SUAI, the President of the Russian section of ISA, 2009). Under the order
of the Committee on Transport Infrastructure Development of St. Petersburg the work on
“South side of Obvodny channel embankment from Borovaya street to Dnepropetrovskaya street
with the transport interchange construction across Ligovsky prospect” was carried out by
Anastasia Lukmanova under the supervision of the Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate
Professor Nikolai N. Mayorov (Deputy Director of the Institute of aerospace instruments and
systems SUAI, an active member of the Russian section of ISA). The Governor of
St.-Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko visited the exhibition and carefully read the exposition
of SUAI and thanked the students and their leaders. Rector of SUAI Yulia A. Antokhina
(President of the Russian section of ISA 2014) and President of the SUAI Anatoly A. Ovodenko
(Head of the mission of the ISA in the Russian Federation) held a speech about the SUAI
achievements and proudly displayed brilliant students’ project works to the Governor of
St.-Petersburg.
June 16, 2015
Postgraduate student of SUAI Alexander Sorokin once again won the ISA grant for the support
of talented youth in the field of automation.
June 15, 2015
Another gift for the ISA knowledge center located in SUAI was presented by the Candidate of
Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Alexander A. Martynov. The prominent scientist of
SUAI handed over his new book “Electric Drive” to the funds of ISA knowledge center.
June 12-21, 2015
The Russian section’s delegation visited the Indiana State University (ISU), USA and
participated in the annual summer meeting of the ISA Presidium at the ISA Headquarters in
North Carolina. During this visit, the ISU and SUAI joint work plan was signed. Dr. Gerald
Cockrell, Dr. Laura Crumpler, Dr. Patrick Gouhin were honorary awarded a commemorative medal
“20 Years of ISA in Russia” on behalf of the Russian section of ISA.
Newly published book “20 Years of the Russian Section of ISA” by co-authors Yulia A.
Antokhina, Anatoly A. Ovodenko, Alexander V. Bobovich and Victor M. Boer was of great
importance for the issues discussed at the ISA Headquarters.
By the President of the ISA 2009 Professor Gerald Cockrell’s invitation the Deputy Head of
the ISA mission in the Russian Federation Alexander V. Bobovich presented a report at the
section’s session "Kiwanis Club" of the city of Terre Haute.
February 9, 2015
The annual meeting of the Presidium ISA HQ RF was organized at the ISA HQ RF office. 2014
Russian section president professor Yulia Antochina presented 2014 section report. 2015
Russian section president professor Konstantin Losev presented 2015 Russian section
activities plan. Lubov Timofeeva (SUAI vice-rector) was elected for Russian section
president-elect position.
June 30, 2014
Mikhail Vaganov, Alexandr Sorokin, Ruslan Khansuvarov, Vadim Nenashev
Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation
were awarded by the 2014 ISA Education Scholarship Award
April 17, 2014
The VII ISA students research long-distance conference in frame of the
67 International Students Scientific Conference of the SUAI was organized.
January 28, 2014
The annual meeting of the Presidium ISA HQ RF was organized at the ISA HQ RF office. 2013
Russian section president professor Alexander Bestugin presented 2013 section report. 2014
Russian section president professor Yulia Antochina presented 2014 Russian section
activities plan. Professor Konstantin Losev (SUAI vice-rector) was elected for Russian
section president-elect position.>
September 17-22, 2013
I. Lipinsky and V. Nenashev took part at the International Forum PE-RU-SAT-2013 at Lima,
Peru.
June 1–8, 2013
Former ISA presidents Pierguseppe Zani and Gerald Cockrell with their wife’s were invited by
Russian section to visit Saint-Petersburg, Russia. They stay in Russia at period 1–8 June,
2013.Pino and Gerald participated at the XIV International Forum “Modern information society
formation-problems, perspectives, innovation approaches”. The Forum was organized in the
period from June 2 to June 6. It took place on the board of the comfortable cruise ship
cruising from Saint-Petersburg with stops at Kizhi Island, Svirstroy and Valaam Island by
the rivers Neva and Svir, lakes Ladoga and Onega which are the pearls of the Russian
North-West region. Former ISA presidents with Anatoly Ovodenko (SUAI rector, Russia) were
co-chairs of the round table “Trends in global automation to the year 2020”. After Pino and
Gerald visited ISA Russian section and met with Russian students, professors and automation
specialists.
Also Gerald presented his “Project management” lecture to SUAI students. During more than 7
years professor Cockrell with Alex Bobovich organized the long distance seminar “Practical
project management: learning to manage the professional” for students from St.-Petersburg
State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI). ISA guest had short cultural program:
they visited famous Mariinsky theater and look on the Swan Lake ballet.
Presentation:
January 31, 2013
The Annual meeting of the Presidium of the ISA HQ RF was organized at the ISA HQ RF office.
2012 Russian section president professor Victor Boer presented his report about 2012 section
activities. 2013 Russian section president professor Alexander Bestugin presented his report
about 2013 section activities. Professor Yulia Antokhina (SUAI vice-rector, PhD) was elected
for Russian section president-elect position.
January 25, 2013
During SUAI Observant Council meeting ISA HQ RF chair professor A. Ovodenko awarded
St.-Petersburg Governor G. Poltavchenko the memorial medal “10 years of the ISA HQ in
Russia”.
November 22, 2012
The meeting of the Presidium of the ISA Russian Section was organized at ISA Headquarters
Russian Federation.
November 15, 2012
Eight issue of the long distance “Project management” seminar started.
October 25, 2012
Last session of the Seventh issue Project management seminar was organized via Internet by
professor Gerald Cockrell. 16 SUAI students received ISU certificates.
October 9-11, 2012
From 9th through 11th of October 2012 XII International Specialized Exhibition Progressive
technologies in Automation. PTA-2012 was held in the Expocentre Central Exhibition Complex,
Moscow. EXPOTRONIKA Company was an organizer of the exhibition.
September 22-27, 2012
Section delegation took part at District 12 meeting during “Automation week” at Orlando
(USA).
May 22–27, 2012
Professor Orazio Mirabella with his daughter Julia visited St.-Petersburg (Russia) during
22–27 of May, 2012.
O. Mirabella
was awarded by the title of “Honored Doctor of St.-Petersburg State University of Aerospace
Instrumentation”.
Live webcast of Scientific Council Enlarged Session devoted to the SUAI (Russia) Honored
Doctor Gown Awarding to professor Catania University (Italy) O. Mirabella was translated at
May 24, 2012.
ISA senior-member visited ISA Head Quarters RF office, ISA knowledge centre for SUAI. He met
with ISA Russian student’s members and Russian section leaders during his staying in
St.-Petersburg. He also presented lecture to SUAI students and professors.
February 5, 2012
Arkady Ovodenko oldest Russian ISA senior member passed away on February 5, 2012 at his 89th
years.
He was very well known person in Russia and former USSR in avionics area. He was founder and
chair of the Main design center of the Holding “Leninetz” in St.-Petersburg. May he rest in
peace!
January 26, 2012
The annual meeting of the Presidium of the ISA RF was organized at the ISA Headquarters
Russian Federation.
2011 Russian section president professor Elena Semenova presented her report about 2011
section activities. 2012 Russian section president professor Victor Boer presented report
about 2012 section activities. Dr. Alexander Bestugin (SUAI Dean, PhD) was elected for
Russian section president-elect position).
September 22, 2011
One of the oldest ISA Russian Senior member Dr. Vladimir Kraskin was awarded by the Yuri
Gagarin Medal from the name of the Russian Federation of space technology and
exploration.
June 27, 2011
Alexey Tirtichny as a recipient of an ISA Educational Foundation 2011 has been awarded
$2000.
June 25, 2011
Former ISA president Gerald Cockrell and former ISA senior administrator Laura Crumler were
presented the Memorial Medal “70 years of the St.-Petersburg State University of Airspace
Instrumentation” for their many years wonderful work for international students’ activities.
The Medal to G. Cockrell was presented in Terre Haute, IN, USA during visit of Russian
delegation to ISU. The medal to Laura Crumpler was sent her by mail from the name of ISA
Russian section and SUAI.
May 12, 2011
ISA Russian section congratulates Alexander Bobovich Friends and colleagues of the ISA
St.-Petersburg Russian section congratulate Alexander Bobovich on reaching his 60th birthday
and wish him good health and success!
Alex
Bobovich in 1976, graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Aerospace
Instrumentation. Since then, his life has been continuously connected with higher education.
Working in LIAI-SUAI, he was in at the beginning a of the Russian Federation Ministry of
Education’s System of Centers for Information Technologies.He joined ISA in 1996 and became
an ISA Fellow in 2005. Thanks to his efforts, several generations of young professionals in
the field of automation and instrumentation have been able to make impressive progress in
their professional careers. As chairman of the student section of the ISA District 12, Alex
actively contributes to the strengthening scientific relations between Russian and foreign
students and teachers allowing them to exchange experiences and promote education and
science.In his 40 year scientific career Alex Bobovich has authored over 100 scientific
papers. His book, “Hardware and Software for Designing the Robot Control Systems” has been
recommended by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation as a textbook for
university students studying robotics.Alex Bobovich has repeatedly been honored by the ISA.
Among them the Don W. Thompson Award in 2003 and Donald P. Eckman Award received at the ISA
Honors & Awards Gala, in 2009. As a member of the International Scientific-Technical Society
for Instrument Engineers and Metrology (ISTSIEM) he was awarded the highest award – the
Medal of Vavilov in 2002.During his birthday he is away from home however to deliver a
presentation at the Jubilee Conference “20 years of education information of Russia on the
basis of points CIT”, held in Rostov-on-Don.>
January 11, 2011
The annual meeting of the Presidium of the ISA RF was organized at the ISA Headquarters
Russian Federation.
2010 Section president Dr. Boris Pavlov presented report about 2010 activities. 2011 section
president Dr. Elena Semenoda presented plan of activities for 2011. Dr. Victor Boer was
elected for section President-elect position.
November 28, 2010
ISA Russian section congratulates Professor Vladimir B. Kraskin Friends and colleagues from
the St.-Petersburg Russian section congratulate Professor Vladimir Borisovich Kraskin (V.G.
Khlopin Institute consultant) – one of the oldest ISA Russian members – in connection with
his 80th jubilee and wish him good health and success in everything!
Vladimir B. Kraskin was born in Leningrad at November 28, 1930. He was studying at the
Faculty for physics and engineering of Leningrad Polytechnic University and graduated from
this Faculty in 1953. In 1954 he graduated from The Missile Faculty of the Military Academy
named after the F.E. Dzerzhinsky in Moscow. Then there was military service. During more the
30 years he was working at the «Baikonur» spaceport, taking part in the launching the first
artificial satellite, the first manned space vehicle, the first orbital inhabited stations.
He was an active participant in the preparation and realization of the historical Yuri
Gagarin flight. He was a unique specialist in radio-telemetry and at the end of his military
carrier he gained the rank of colonel. He is PhD and the author of more the 100 books,
papers and patents. From 1988 till 2004 he was working as a senior researcher at the chair
for Robotics of the SUAI. Now he is working as the scientific consultant in the
St.-Petersburg Radium Research Institute named after V.G. Khlopin. He is «Honored radio
operator of the USSR», the member of interregional society «Space veterans» and the ISA
senior-member.
September 7, 2010
Final session of the long-distance seminar “Project management” Professor Gerald Cockrell
presented his last class of the long-distance seminar “Project Management”, which he
organized fifth time for Russian students from SUAI during 2009–2010. Professor Artur
Budagov, Dean of the Economican Faculty of the SUAI passed the certificates to students from
the name of professor Cockrell.
January 28, 2010
Held the annual meeting of the Presidium of the ISA in the Russian Federation
With the report on the work done was made by President Section 2009 Professor, Ph. D.,
member corr. RAS Lydia Chubraeva.>
November, 10, 2009
Russian members greeting to Professor Michael Volokhov Friends and colleagues from St.
Petersburg Russian section send greetings and wish all the best to one of the oldest Russian
ISA member – professor St.- Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation Michael
A. Volokhov with his 70th Jubilee!
A. Volokhov born at 10, November, 1939. In 1963 graduated from Leningrad Institute of
Airspace Instrumentation (now SUAI). In 1973 he got his PhD in the field of electrical
machines. Research concerned to the resolvers for on-ground airport equipment. Michael has a
great work experience. Since 1963 to 1967 was working as an engineer at the
Electroautomatika research and designing company. Dealing with the development of
electro-mechanic devices for space and aircraft navigation. Since 1967 till present he is
professor of SUAI. Reading lectures, running practices in the theory, technologies and
manufacturing of the electrical machines and robotics, working at the projects in
electro-mechanics and flexible manufacturing. In 1994 was working at the Ajuokuta
Metallurgical Training Institute, Nigeria. Reading lectures, running practices on
instruments and automation of metallurgical plant. In 1998-1999 was a participant of EC
Copernicus Project. Running research in multi-agent robotic systems for Industrial
application. During many years Michael is the secretary of St.-Petersburg Russian section.
March 8–13, 2009
Professor G. Cockrell (ISA President) visit to SUAI (Russia) Professor G. Cockrell with his
wife J. Cockrell visited St.-Petersburg (Russia) during 8–13 of March, 2009. G. Cockrell was
awarded by the title of “Honored Doctor of St.-Petersburg State University of Aerospace
Instrumentation”. Live webcast of Scientific Council Enlarged Session devoted to the SUAI
(Russia) Honored Doctor Gown Awarding to professor ISU (USA) G. Cockrell was translated at
March 12, 2009. ISA president visited ISA Head Quarters RF office, ISA knowledge centre for
SUAI. He met with ISA Russian student’s members and Russian section leaders during his
staying in St.-Petersburg. He also presented lecture to SUAI students.
January 26, 2009
Held the annual meeting of the Presidium of the ISA in the Russian Federation
With a report on the work done was made President of the Russian section of ISA Igor Pavlov>
January 13, 2009
Greeting!!! January 13, 2009 Arkady Ovodenko (ISA senior) had his 85 years birthday.
He is oldest Russian ISA member. SUAI organized special dinner. More than 100 specialists
from St.-Petersburg plants and companies greet him at the Georgy Hall of the SUAI. Arkady is
very well known person in avionics area in Russia and former USSR. He was founder and chair
of the Main design centre of the holding «Leninetz» in St.-Petersburg. He is USSR Honorary
Radio Operator and he is Deserved Machine Builder of Russian Federation (both titles are
highest state professional titles in USSR and RF). Arkady Ovodenko name include at the
St.-Petersburg Engineering Encyclopedia.>
June 3, 2008
Congratulations!!! Alexey Tirtichny as a recipient of an ISA Educational Foundation 2008
have been awarded $1500 from the Bob and Mary Ives Fund.>
April 29, 2008
The ceremony for presentation of State awards was held in the Kremlin!
April 29, 2008
The ceremony for presentation of State awards was held in the Kremlin. Vladimir Putin
presented high Russian Federation award, the «Order for the services to Fatherland-IY
degree» to Anatoly Ovodenko (SUAI rector, ISA HQ Russian Federation chair). Fifty-four
famous Russians received state awards and titles, including figures from science, culture
and the arts, doctors, teachers and representatives of industry and agriculture. The awards
ceremony is traditionally held in the Catherine Hall in Kremlin.