Two SPbGASU graduates and two SPbGASU PhD students were awarded prizes from the Government of St Petersburg as the winners of a grant competition 2024 for students of St Petersburg universities, and PhD students of universities, industry and academic institutions located in St Petersburg.

Anna Baranova

Graduate Anna Baranova became the winner of the competition with the project “Urban planning organization of the system for placing sports facilities in St Petersburg”, completed under the supervision of Mikhail Vilensky, Associate Professor at the SPbGASU Department of Urban Planning, PhD of Architecture.

“I used to be skeptical about various competitions, but recently I realized that participation in them is an opportunity to be heard by the citizens, whose interests you strive to defend, for the sake of whose comfort you do your work, as well as by the professional community. Participation in such events draws attention to problems that have remained in the shadows and allows you to start the process of resolving them. Attracting wide attention is very important, because urban planning decisions must be a compromise, satisfying, if not everyone, then at least the majority,” noted Anna Baranova.

In her opinion, one of these problems that requires finding compromises is the lack of publicly accessible facilities for mass sports. A study of the urban planning organization of the system for placing sports infrastructure identified problems relating not only to the features of spatial development and planning of sports facilities in St Petersburg, but also general problems characteristic of the Northern capital: lack of standardization criteria, loss of linkage of the standardization system to documents of territorial planning and urban zoning, shortage of social infrastructure facilities. The work proposes new models for the placement and regulation of sports infrastructure.

Anna Baranova intends to continue research in this direction.

Anastasia Kaledina

Graduate Anastasia Kaledina, whose supervisor was also Mikhail Vilensky, won with the project “Urban planning organization of medical districts in the largest cities of the Russian Federation (using the example of St Petersburg, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Ekaterinburg, Ufa and Krasnoyarsk)”.

“The relevance of my research,” says Anastasia, “lies in the fact that the development of medical science and practice requires the creation of innovative territorial entities - medical districts. I set the task of developing a typology of such areas based on existing urban planning experience. I plan to continue research on this topic during my PhD studiesI would like to express my deep gratitude to my supervisor Mikhail Yuryevich Vilensky, who guided, supported, inspired and encouraged me to participate in the grant competition!”

PhD student Elena Sorokina received an award for the project “Digital security ecosystem of the transport complex: transformation based on distributed registry technologies.” Her scientific supervisor is Associate Professor at the SPbGASU Department of Transport Systems, PhD of Engineering Sciences Egor Golov.

Elena is sure that the development of transport is one of the main factors of economic growth. Without improving the transport complex, it is impossible to achieve Russia’s national goals by 2030, approved in the decree of the country’s president. And one of the important components of such improvement is increasing transport security.

“In my research, I propose methods and technical solutions that will create a digital ecosystem to ensure the safety of the transport complex. They cover aspects of managing the condition of roads and ensuring road safety,” said Elena Sorokina. She plans to patent her project and continue scientific activities in the chosen direction.

Sergey Tetushkin

PhD student Sergey Tetushkin was awarded for the project “Study of the normative calculation dynamic model of a building structure under seismic influence.” Sergey’s scientific supervisor is Nadezhda Ostrovskaya, Associate Professor at the SPbGASU Department of Construction Mechanics.

As part of his dissertation research on the principle of operation of a cantilever computational dynamic model (CDM), the PhD student conducted full-scale tests to determine the dynamic characteristics of a three-story building model. This model is proposed by the set of rules SP 14.13330.2018 “Construction in seismic areas” as a design scheme for building structures under seismic influence. As a result of the study, the author turned to SP 24.13330.2021 “Pile foundations” and proposed a method in which it is analytically possible to take into account the interaction of the CDM with the soil foundation.

Congratulations to the winners of the grant competition and wishes of further success!