One life is too short to get to know HSE University-St Petersburg thoroughly. But to get acquainted with it well, one HSE SPB Day will be enough. On September 13, we invite the first-years and everyone interested to 'Sevkabel Port' for a kaleidoscope of pleasant emotions and impressions. We will show you how eventful and interesting university years will be and introduce you to the professors, business partners and other active students. Find out what other surprises we have prepared in the article.

Marina Beliaeva, a fourth-year student of the Bachelor's programme 'Asian and African Studies', spent a whole year at Fudan University. Over this time, she completed language courses, gathered the material for future researches and became a host at student events. Find out in the interview with Marina how to get into a university from the top 40 of the university ranking QS, what it is like to study Chinese economics in Chinese and what to do to look at the city from the tallest skyscraper in Asia.

The organisers have announced the results of the International Video Competition 'WOWMOSCOW' held in the framework of the festival and forum 'Territory of the Future. Moscow 2030'. On August 15, the winner was named in the Museum of Cinema at VDNH. The winner became Takha Audyarahma, a student of the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), a partner university of HSE University-St Petersburg.

Before the start of the academic year, we keep introducing you to the professors of HSE University-St Petersburg. Ekaterina Kalemeneva supervises the Department of History and teaches Bachelor's and Master's students. In her research, she focuses on historical urban studies, Soviet urban development and the Thaw era. We talked to the Candidate of Historical Sciences about the projects of modernist cities in the Arctic and the changes entailed by the construction of the Khrushchev-Era houses.

Danil Hazigaliev completed the first year of studies in the programme 'International Bachelor’s in Business and Economics'. Thanks to extracurricular events, he mastered the profession of photographer, made new friends, and got an award for the best supporting role. This year, the student will become a curator for the freshmen. We talked to him about the most vivid moments of his extracurricular life.

Andrey Vovk, 4th-year student of the Bachelor's programme 'Asian and African Studies', undertook an internship on the Arabic language at the language centre 'Ahlan World' in Cairo. He studied the literary and spoken Arabic language as well as the peculiarities of the Egyptian dialect. Earlier, the student took part in the Summer School at the National University of Uzbekistan.