On 25 April, SPbGASU hosted the annual international historical dictation on the events of the Great Patriotic War, "Victory Dictation". According to the organizers, more than 250 students and employees of the university took part in it. More than two million people wrote it in all regions of our country and in 84 countries of the world.

"Victory Dictation" was held simultaneously at three SPbGASU sites. Within 45 minutes, participants completed 25 tasks developed by leading historians of the country.

Volunteer assistance in conducting the dictation was provided by activists of the all-Russian student project of Rosmolodezh "Your Move", second-year bachelor's students of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Municipal Services Viktoria Marusey and Danil Ivanov. We asked them to share their opinions about the dictation, as well as to tell about their projects.

"The dictation is our memory of the events of the war years. We must remember the feat of our ancestors," Danil is sure.

“Thanks to such events, young people learn more about history,” Viktoria believes.

Together with second-year bachelor's students of the Faculty of EE&MS Alina Prikhodko and Anna Kozhina, Viktoria is working on an environmental project within the framework of the “I Do” track, “Analysis of the state of soil and ground in St Petersburg to assess the possibility of planting green spaces.” The result of the project will be an electronic map that visually displays the environmental state of various areas, as well as recommendations for planting plants. Information can be entered into the map by all interested city residents, and others. “I have a special interest in ecology and strive to contribute to improving the environmental situation both in the city and in the country,” said the student, who is also the group leader.

Danil Ivanov not only studies, but also works as a technologist in the company. As part of the "I Do" track, he is implementing the WaterTechnologies project, aimed at making the process of developing treatment facilities easier.

"Any treatment facilities are very expensive and complicated. A lot of documents are created when implementing even simple water treatment plants for both drinking and technical purposes. The presence of such water treatment plants is the key to the development of any modern city. There are very few people who can and want to do such a complex task. They have a huge amount of work, and this overload causes burnout, inattention, which leads to errors. My project will help reduce the workload of each person, speed up the process of document development, reduce the influence of the human factor and make the water in our country a little cleaner," the student said.

One of the participants of the "Victory Dictation" was a fourth-year bachelor's student of the Faculty of Civil Engineering Zlata Zolotykh, who heads the "EcoTusa" project. The guys collect waste paper and plastic caps, participate in city and all-Russian clean-up days.

"This dictation is a very important event, and I am glad that so many of our students are here. The questions were interesting. I learned some things for the first time," Zlata shared.

"Victory Dictation", aimed at increasing historical literacy and patriotic education of youth, is of particular importance in the year of the eightieth anniversary of the Great Victory and in the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland. At SPbGASU they do everything to instill in young people respect for the feat of our people during the Great Patriotic War.