Inessa Gracheva, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Acting Head of the Research and Development Department, Associate Professor of the Department “Information Security” of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences, and Nikita Bezzubov, a fourth-year PhD student of the “System Analysis, Management and Information Processing, Statistics” direction, graduate of the III Summer Linguistic School for Young Researchers “Dive into Science!” were awarded with diplomas and commemorative medals ‘World Festival of Youth 2024’ for their contribution to the preparation and organising the World Festival of Youth 2024. 

The corresponding document was signed by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

As a part of the World Youth Festival, Inessa took part in Rosatom's contest “Icebreaker of Knowledge” and was among its winners. Last summer, she travelled to the North Pole as an expert together with gifted children.

- Any award is a certain responsibility first and foremost to oneself, Inessa emphasised. - It motivates us not to rest on our laurels and realise our potential. 

During the preparation of the World Youth Festival, Nikita was engaged in organising the space for meeting guests from different countries. The young man also took part in a videoconference to meet participants from the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, which is the country under the patronage of the Tula region at the World Youth Festival 2024.

During the Festival, Nikita's main work was related to the exhibition area “International Innovation Hub”. The postgraduate student demonstrated a system of photogrammetric alignment of shafts of composite machines and mechanisms. 

- This is an invention of a team of postgraduate students of Tula State University. We won a grant from the Innovation Promotion Fund under the Student Startup program to develop this system, the young researcher explained. - Since most of the visitors were foreigners, I often had to explain the principles of work in English. Technical translation, as you know, is always more difficult, and idiomatic expressions in Russian and English are different. But I tried to choose the wording that suited the meaning and make it as easy as possible to talk about our project. And I succeeded! In general, one of the most important goals of the Festival is to be able to find a common language and understand each other, despite all the difficulties involved.

According to Nikita, the award for him is a high-level recognition of the results of his work. It is a powerful incentive for further scientific activity. 

In the near future, the postgraduate student plans to put through his thesis and continue his research in the field of computer vision. Also, Nikita admitted, he has several ideas for new projects, which he would like to realise and possibly implement in production. 

Tatiana Krikunkova