A Clausura dedicated to Victory Day was held at the SPbGASU Faculty of Architecture. The students worked on a concept for the reconstruction of the Three Stars memorial complex, where the remains of 126 soldiers and commanders of the Volkhov Front who died in 1941–1944 are buried. The memorial complex is located in the Kirovsky district of the Leningrad region.

Clausura is a training exercise during which students create a sketch, lay-out, model of their idea. According to the organizer of the event, a second-year bachelor's student of the Faculty of Architecture Arina Panova, the clausura is held at the Faculty of Architecture several times a semester.

“Every time we come up with a new topic, different fr om the previous one. This time we chose it together with the dean of the Faculty of Architecture Ekaterina Rurikovna Vozniak. We wanted the topic to be related to the holiday of 9 May,” said Arina.

To add personal style, the students directly or indirectly connected the projects with music. The main task in creating the concept was to design a memorable and recognizable place wh ere people of all ages would like to come. In two hours, students developed proposals for the improvement of the memorial complex and presented projects in the form of models. The authors combined the memory of the place and the sounds they associate with the time of the Great Patriotic War.

Nikita Dubinin, a first-year bachelor's student at the Faculty of Forensics and Law in Construction and Transport, spoke about a conceptual model called "Long-awaited Peace". Nikita created it together with Daria Manakova, a first-year bachelor's student at the Faculty of Architecture. “The idea was that war is always scary. In this work, at the foot of the mountain, the consequences of the war are shown, while the mountain itself symbolizes peace and tranquility, wh ere people who were taken by the war go after death. The staircase leading up is the road to peace, and the slippers left in front of the stairs are a symbol of all the worries and experiences that remained down there, ”said Nikita.

“Our monument consists of dynamic triangular figures. Architects often choose these sharp shapes to convey tension. We were inspired by Sergey Speransky and Daniel Libeskind. The composition is fast-paced and the forms are heavy. It seems to me that the architecture of memory is largely based on such contradictions,” said Bogdan Lobanov, a first-year bachelor's student at the Faculty of Architecture. Together with Arina Panova, he created a conceptual model “Rumbling Pipes and Wind”.

According to Arina, the clausura is also a way of communication between students from different fields of study: “Interaction between students is very important to develop and maintain. We will be glad to see everyone on our clausura!