Tomsk Polytechnic University is taking part in the celebration of City Day, which is being held on 7 June.
An installation with pictures of TPU buildings is being set up at Novosobornaya Square. Guests of the public festival can draw these pictures and learn the most interesting facts about the university buildings and the university itself. The guests can also find QR codes for the first series of the TPU podcast in Russian Kirov’s Boots. The podcast will be consisted of several seasons. Season one of the podcast includes five releases and is devoted to the European Quarter of Tomsk. The podcast is recorded for listening while walking. Further releases can be found on Yandex. Music.
TPU is suggesting walking around the university campus with the staff of the TPU History Museum on 7 June. There are two walking tours planned at 16:00 and 19:00. The walking tours are free of charge but with a limited number of participants. To join, call +7 (3822) 70-56-71 or send a private message in the public group.
The walking tours are starting from the TPU main building (30, Lenina Avenue).
Moreover, lectures dedicated to the city’s history through the university history (in Russian) are being held in the TPU Engineer’s Yard (entrance through the right side of the TPU main building):
19:00 Vadim Lobanov, a specialist in Exposition and Exhibition Activity at the TPU Office of Cultural Heritage and Community Management, is giving a lecture on Historical Equation: Tomsk Means TPU. He is telling about cobwebs of the historical phenomenon: the first engineering university in Asian Russia and the city’s history, as well as answering the question: how the university changed the engineering culture and made a revolution in the city’s history and place names, what TPU engineers constructed in Tomsk.
19:30 Guide and enthusiast Arina Barieva is sharing her stories on the most outstanding TPU people Our People: TPU People Whom We Must Know.
Then at 20:00 TPU graduate, history and architecture researcher Artem Drozdov is telling about peculiarities in Tomsk construction in his lecture Mess, Ruins and Catacombs. Construction of Imperial Tomsk. Listeners will know why the construction of TPU lasted long, how Russian imperial banker Vtorov’s Arcade (current 1,000 Melochey Store) was constructed from ruins, where there are still catacombs in the city and how to find them.