Vologda State University

The International conference of student scientific papers was held at the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory.

Maria Budilova’s scientific research “The wedding tradition of the Chuchkovsky rural settlement” was presented in the category “Musical folklore in the modern world”. The research paper was awarded a diploma of the II degree. Maria is a senior year student at the Institute of Culture and Tourism.

The research utilizes the materials of folklore expeditions of the VSU Scientific and Educational Center of Traditional Folk Culture.

The Department of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication along with the Department of the German and French Languages, hosted a poetry reading contest “German Classics”. 24 students took part in the competition.

All participants showed their ability to select and interpret poetic works. The contestants recited poems by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Schiller, Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Geim and other illustrious German and Austrian poets.

The VSU social work freshmen get hand-on experience as part of “Volunteering” course helping orphaned children.

At the Vologda Center for children, VSU volunteers give creative lessons, and help the children to do their homework. The volunteer students also gave a masterclass on housekeeping.

During the career guidance class, the students told the children about popular professions.

Practical classes on volunteering are coming to an end, but cooperation with the Center for children will be continued.

The creative competition “Your Choice”, dedicated to the struggle with harmful addictions, was held at the Institute of Management, Economics and Law of VSU.

“Alcohol does more harm to humanity than wars, famine and plague combined,” said Charles Darwin.

In order to have a healthy lifestyle, it is important to quit smoking, drinking alcohol, and taking drugs. Bad habits do a lot of harm to both individuals and the whole society.

The VSU Institute of Management, Economics and Law hosted a creative competition “Your Choice”, which aim was to promote healthy lifestyle among students.

The contestants tried to convince the audience of the advantages of a healthy lifestyle.

It happens only once a year. Students at the Department of Musical Art and Education invite educators, future musicians, and those who love good music to their Alma Mater.  They show the audience what they have learned during the academic year.

This time, the students performed music by Yuly Kim, Mary Lynn Lightfoot, Sergey Pleshak, Bob Chilcott, Edvard Grieg, Antonín Leopold Dvořák, Frederic Chopin and many others.