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🎓Dear students and applicants,

Irkutsk National Research Technical University (INRTU) invites you to take part in the Online Academic Competition “Engineers iPolytech 2026” (February-March 2026).

📆Key dates:
☑️Registration deadline: February 28, 2026
☑️Portfolio contest: March 1–10, 2026

You may compete for admission to one of the following Master’s programs:
📍 Renewable Energy
📍 Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
📍MBA: Global Management and Leadership
📍Ecology & Green Technologies
📍Specialized Translation and Interpreting (Russian and Chinese)

15 winners will receive a full scholarship and a monthly stipend for the entire study period.

🔗Full details and registration are available here:
https://eng.istu.edu/events/online-academic-competition-engineers-ipolytech-2026/

We will be pleased to welcome you as a participant in the competition.

Students from INRTU’s Baikal School of BRICS excelled at the regional stage of the XIV All-Russian "Chinese Bridge" competition in Ulan-Ude. Elena Dzyogan (MA in Russian-Chinese Translation) placed second, earning a spot in the finals, while Ilya Kaimonov (BA in Journalism) won "Best Creative Performance."

Organized by China’s Ministry of Education and the Consulate General in Irkutsk, the event drew participants from five Russian regions. Contestants faced four challenges: monologue, quiz, creative performance, and impromptu speech.

Irina Sharaveva, Head of the BRICS Humanities Department, praised the students’ achievements, noting Elena’s historic advancement to the national finals and Ilya’s creative win. Both credited their success to rigorous preparation and faculty support.

INRTU’s team was recognized for outstanding coaching, with Irina Sharaveva and Svetlana Khalmakshinova receiving diplomas. BSU claimed first place, while runners-up included students from Transbaikal State University and Baikal State University.

🤝Irkutsk National Research Technical University (INRTU) and Geely University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, have signed an agreement to collaborate on joint programs, academic exchanges, and a new automotive maintenance training center at INRTU.

🔹 Geely University, founded by Geely Holding Group, specializes in engineering, IT, and business, with 26,000 students. The partnership includes a dual-degree program for INRTU’s International Business students, who will study in Russia and China, mastering Chinese and business disciplines.

🔹A Geely vehicle maintenance center will also open at INRTU to support the growing Russian market. Future plans include master’s/PhD collaborations and student-faculty exchanges.

🔹"This prepares students to excel technically and culturally in both countries," said Stepan Bykov, INRTU Vice-Rector for International Affairs. The agreement strengthens Sino-Russian educational ties.

🤝🫶The International Friendship Club of the Irkutsk Region successfully held the Kick-off Session!


⭐ The event gathered more than 70 young participants from 12 countries including Russia, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Mongolia, China, Tajikistan, Japan, Indonesia, Sudan and Burundi in the Youth House of the Irkutsk Region.

⭐ International students of INRTU did not miss the opportunity to join the club of international friendship and participate in this event together with the Head of the International Student Council and INRTU bachelor's degree student Ahmad Garba Yakubu.

“I joined the International Friendship Club this year, and the Kickoff Session was a fantastic experience! With 70+ participants from 14 countries, we developed ideas for projects in media, creativity, governance, education, and sports. The highlight was the ‘Friendship Planes’ launch, symbolizing global unity. It was an inspiring event that showed the power of international youth collaboration in Irkutsk,” says Ahmad.

⭐ During interactive games young people developed ideas of international projects for 2025 in the following areas:

✔️ Media
✔️ Creative industries and creativity
✔️ Public administration
✔️ Education and science
✔️ Sports and entrepreneurship

⭐ The culmination of the event was the symbolic action “Airplanes of Friendship”, during which the participants launched model airplanes into the sky as a symbol of friendship and unity, marking the first year since the International platform of opportunities started.

⭐ This event shows the growing role of international youth cooperation in the Irkutsk region and confirms the need to develop cooperation between young people from different countries!

More information in the club's Telegram channel: https://t.me/IFC38

#ОбластьМолодых #МКД38

🏆🏅Karate fighters from INRTU Andrian Amsheev and Sainbayar Davaarzhargal won medals of the republican tournament “White Moon Cup” in Ulan-Ude. The competition was held on February 22, bringing together 136 athletes.
Andrian Amsheev, a specialist of the Center of International Services of INRTU, took “gold” in the category “kata”. He has been practicing karate since 2015, has a black belt (second dan), is a prize-winner of tournaments of various levels. Experience and skill helped Andrian to prove himself worthily in the fight against rivals from Buryatia and Tajikistan.

✨It should be noted that Andrian Amsheev also acted as a coach for Sainbayar Davaarzhargal – a student from Mongolia, studying at the Preperatory Department of INRTU with the support of energy holding EN+ Group. Sainbayar became a bronze medalist of the “White Moon Cup” in the “kata” and “kumite” categories.

✨“Adaptation of international students in Russia is not limited to assistance in studies and paperwork – we actively involve students in arts and sports. Before coming to INRTU, Sainbayar Davaarzhargal practiced volleyball professionally and has a first division. In December I invited the student to karate classes.

✨For two months of training Sainbayar achieved high results, competing with experienced athletes from Buryatia. This is an example of determination and hard work,” commented Andrian Amsheev on the student's success.

Maslenitsa Fair in INRTU

🥞 INRTU celebrated Maslenitsa (Pancake Week) with a fair near the Baikal School of BRICS. Students and the Catering Company hosted a tea party featuring blini (Russian pancakes), pies, and kalach, while vocalists and skomorokhs entertained guests. Festivities included tug-of-war, pillow fights, snowball games, and balloon blowing. Rector Mikhail Korniakov thanked organizers and gave the first pancake to Pavel Yolshin, a second-year student.

🥞 Elizaveta Isupova, a second-year student from dormitory No. 13, welcomed guests with apple pies, buns, and pancakes topped with sour cream, cottage cheese, condensed milk, and jam. A samovar adorned with kalachas added to the festive table.

🥞 The Fair featured fun starts, raffles, and token exchanges for pancakes and candy. A lottery celebrating INRTU's 95th anniversary drew excitement, with prizes like speakers, smart watches, and store certificates. Organized by the Department of Youth Policy, trade union students club, and the Center of Cultural and Educational Work, the event was enlivened by performances from creative groups like “Art Graphics,” “Kalina,” and “Predmestye.”

International Tournament “Cup of Two Lakes”: INRTU Wins and Signs a Trilateral Agreement

The III International Ball Hockey Tournament “Cup of Two Lakes” was held in Maksimikha settlement on February 17. Following the results of three spectacular matches, the INRTU team won the Cup, the Republic of Buryatia took the silver medal, and Mongolia earned the bronze.

The Cup is organized by the Student Sport Ball Hockey League, the Ministry of Sport and Youth Policy of the Republic of Buryatia, and the Buryat Regional Branch of the Russian Student Sports Union. The tournament, which has become traditional, is dedicated to the 44th anniversary of the Soviet-Mongolian flight into space. The organizing committee is headed by the first cosmonaut of Mongolia Zhugdardemidine Gurragcha.

Within the framework of the tournament, a cooperation agreement was signed, opening new prospects for the development of student ball hockey. The document was signed by Mikhail Korniakov, Ivan Kozyrev, Minister of Sport and Youth Policy of the Republic of Buryatia, and Viktor Vlasov, Chairman of the Buryat Regional Branch of the Russian Student Sports Union. The guests noted that the games of youth teams on the ice of Lake Baikal can already be called a trademark and such international competitions help to develop student sports.

It is planned that the IV “Cup of Two Lakes” will be held on Lake Khubsugul in Mongolia in 2026.

More information on our website: https://eng.istu.edu/

🏢 Aleksandr Petunin, a senior lecturer of INRTU Department of Construction Operations, under the guidance of Associate Professor Aleksandr Petrov, is researching type 335 large-panel houses. The INRTU experts offer constructive solutions to increase the seismic resistance of buildings, improve the thermal performance of building envelopes, and increase living space. This initiative is implemented under the Priority 2030 program.Regarding the relevance of the research topic, Aleksandr Petunin noted that the standard projects of type 1-335 houses of various modifications were developed by LenZNIIEP engineers for regions with seven or eight points seismicity. They were used in the construction of Irkutsk in 1960-1976. About 500 houses of this type are in use in the regional center. Sayansk, Zima, Usolie-Sibirskoye, Shelekhov, and Angarsk have a significant share of the housing stock.

🔎 In practice, INRTU specialists have successfully tested technologies for restoring the operational reliability of wall panels using modified lightweight concrete. A method known as "torquetting" improves the structural integrity of gas-ash concrete panels by incorporating a ventilated facade system.

🔎 Type 335 structures that have been in operation for over 45-60 years without repair and protection measures and have mass typical failures. Local defects and damage to the aerated concrete of the outdoor wall panels (window and door openings, assembly and intersection joints) occur due to frost degradation centers in condensation accumulation zones. The problem is the continuous delamination of outdoor wall panels facing north-west, exposed to intensive rainfall, threatening their sudden collapse.

🔵 INRTU Design and Technology Bureau (DTB) presented a sample of an electric auto feed drilling machine (AFDM) to the Irkutsk Aviation Plant, a Yakovlev Corporation branch. The tool improves the quality and productivity of drilling of multi-layer aircraft parts (composite-steel-titanium-aluminum), competing with foreign analogues. The main advantage of the INRTU drilling machine is the ability to assign drilling modes for each layer of material.
The engineering and technical solution is the result of cooperation between the DTB and the Research Laboratory of Digital Technologies for the Production of Polymer Composite Materials under the Priority 2030 Program.

According to Pavel Grishkevich, the head of DTB, the device with separate drill feed and rotation is new to the Russian market. INRTU engineers developed the mechanical part of the drilling machine, installed control and instrumentation systems (CIS) and a cutting fluid supply system (CFSS). The engineers designed and built a working prototype of a tool that can be adjusted to drill holes up to 12 mm in diameter.

The AFDM allows for drilling holes in a single setup without changing the cutting tool, ensuring high accuracy in aircraft assembly. It is designed for operations involving composite steel-titanium-aluminum packages.

More on this on our website: eng.istu.edu

🔥The project called ‘Engineering Classes’ was launched by the Irkutsk National Research Technical University (INRTU) in the capital of Uzbekistan. The project partner was the Academic Lyceum at the University of Oil and Gas named after Gubkin in Tashkent. The project was realised under an agreement between the educational organisations.

Tashkent high school students will be able to choose a profession among engineering specialities. INRTU teachers will conduct IT classes. In addition, Lyceum students will be able to participate in academic competitions organised by the university.

According to INRTU, the project will last for two years. Children will learn about what fields of studies available at the university, internship opportunities, and much more. Ten events are planned till the end of the current term, the first of them has already taken place.

According to INRTU, the project will last for two years. Children will learn about what fields of studies available at the university, internship opportunities, and much more. Ten events are planned till the end of the current term, the first of them has already taken place.

A master class on machine vision is planned for February, and a lecture on the application of VR and AR reality in industry is scheduled for March.