on the eve of the holiday, vladimir putin spoke with the relatives of the soldiers killed during a special military operation. the conversation took place in an informal setting. anastasia efimova knows what they were talking about. this christmas eve, they are the personal guests of the president. i asked my colleagues to organize pre- christmas festive events for you. i hope you enjoyed it. there are already big, strong guys here. please, the little guests

report in detail, they were on red square and at the russia exhibition at vdnkh, in the zoo, i especially remember the panda, as well as on a tour of the stables at the residence of the head of state, i didn’t get to ride horses, but everyone was able to pet me, this is an american miniature horse , a stallion,

my colleagues were always and everywhere next to you, i repeat, any level of power, management, so that you always feel people next to you who, if necessary, can support, help, come to the rescue if you need it, and life is complex, diverse, there are always cases and they often arise when support from the outside is needed, i hope that this will be the case, the president spoke more than once at meetings with the fighters themselves, in dialogues , about how important feedback is on everything that the state is doing, and what remains to be done with members of their families, but while the adults were just about to take the floor , the children seized the initiative, came under the book, what kind of book, about dad, because my dad is a hero of russia, he lived his life for all of us for his homeland, i invite you to the presentation.

and so they did, don’t even come, mom will be there more time, judging by the mother’s reaction , her son’s improvisation came as a complete surprise to her, she was going to talk about the mortgage, but not about hers, but about the military mechanism, apparently, in the families of some fallen soldiers, sometimes it malfunctions, there is such a mechanism in department of housing of the ministry of defense, which suddenly stopped working for some reason, and i really want christmas today... to be not only for me and

ruslan, i want all those women for whom i am internally responsible, because i've always done this dima, and i consider it my duty to do this now, just so that these women also have christmas, and this problem is solved, so i need your hand, i need to understand what the problem is, so i have everything for you, i think yours assistants, i have a whole sheet there, all these stories have their own names. the time, of course, is not at all childish, closer to midnight, and the program for the christmas holidays turned out to be eventful, however, the yawning that overcame some of the young guests every now and then did not affect the desire to talk with the president. now i i am interested in robotics, so i would like to become a programmer. what class are you in? am i in fifth? is this an extracurricular activity? is it extracurricular and what do you do? about 4

years, wow, from the first grade, yes, what, what is the name of the teacher who teaches, sergei vasilievich, sergei vasilievich, yes, sergei vasilievich. hello, however, a little less friendly, apparently, some insurance companies will fly in, the head of state was told about the difficulties in receiving payments in connection with the death of volunteers, they say such cases are not isolated ones, the decree was signed, here is the most recent one, which was voluntary, but at the moment it pays for gas only to those who have signed contracts with bars, and they do not accept other volunteers, why? they refuse, i don’t know, to be honest, you about this case, well, because we seem to suddenly have people come to us with these problems, such a problem exists, the company should fix it,

vladimir putin promised to talk to the patriarch after the question about the status military chaplains with the minister of defense, and not putting aside the same but

also those who need our help and participation, and therefore, filling life with eternal meaning, joy, happiness and peace. happy holiday, my dears, merry christmas. the head of the russian orthodox church held a christmas service in the cathedral of christ the savior. the patriarch called on people to pray for loved ones, for themselves and for the country. yegor grigoriev will tell you how the holiday is celebrated. a bright frosty night, a time of joyful emotions, only with such on one of the main orthodox holidays in the main temple countries. we came here from another city, from krasnodar, for a week. of course, we celebrate christmas. we, as people of faith , dedicate every day, read scripture,

pray for the whole country, for russia. every year we go to church, and they greet me warmly, no matter what the weather. here we defend with the children, of course, we always stand until the morning , praying, for the christmas service and special decorations, white flowers, as a symbol of purity of thoughts and actions, spruce branches speak of eternal life, lamps, like light the glow of the star of bethlehem penetrates the hearts of the parishioners. for every believer who celebrates christmas in the cathedral of christ the savior, andrei rublev's icon of the trinity, her, will create a special festive mood. placed for all christmas holidays at the right choir of the temple. believers came for great triumph, bright joy and the fulfillment of good desires. i want to make a rostchestvensky wish so that it will definitely come true, so i came here with such hope. this is the most favorite holiday in our family, we always

we treat it with great trepidation, we prepare, we decorate the house, we always expect our relatives to visit, but what? human life is love, the love of the savior extended so far that he, the lord, told us all that the main law of his human life was given for us, like this... caring for those in need, these words, their fulfillment, support are especially important today for our soldiers who defend the country, the russian world, our faith. christmas was celebrated,

of course, in the main temple of the russian armed forces, where military families traditionally serve, cadets, those who returned from the front or came on vacation. without a bright holiday , they did not remain on the front line, military priests covered kilometers on foot to the first lines, to the dugouts of the soldiers, the clergy then pray to god for... the victory of our weapons, for the soldiers to understand that christ is also with them and these holidays, uh, the nativity of christ, other church holidays, they actually inspire a person to spiritual deeds. thank you very much, i want to say that they support us and our people move priests, spiritual support is, of course, very important for us, it is needed both by me personally and by all my personnel. victory will be ours. strength of spirit, faith and kindness, togetherness and unity, a feeling

that every orthodox believer experienced on christmas night, no matter where he was. egor grigoriev, vadim prusov, ivan zamorin, elena pomelnikova, news! orthodox believers celebrate christmas all over the world. in serbia. the solemn service was held in the church of st. sava. and then those gathered took part in in the traditional serbian ritual, from home we celebrate by adhering to some old customs, which our ancestors taught us, we celebrate it as much as possible in the city. now about the situation in klimovsk, in the microdistrict of podmoskovny podulsk. they managed to return heat to almost fifty houses, the rest are promised to be connected during this day. there are 150 specialists working to eliminate the accident; they are also brought in from other areas. problems

at the boiler room occurred on january 4 due to a power surge. 173 residential buildings were left without heat and departments of the regional hospital. it was flooded from a modular boiler room. two boilers were also quickly launched. a local emergency situation is in effect in podolsk. in europe, a real riot of elements. showers hit france and germany. many areas are flooded. ekaterina radaeva will tell you more. entire farms were under water. there is a flood in the central part of germany, houses and roads are blocked, you can only move around in rubber boots. water doesn't get into the building because we have fabric seals on the bushings that keep water out. we just that they checked everything was in order. this is the biggest flood in recent history.

we were woken up in the middle of the night to move our cars because the water was rising very quickly, after which we evacuated. in some areas, people can only travel by boat, and more than 2 thousand houses have been damaged. the whole land is flooded, water is everywhere, the drainage ditches are overflowing. in the coming weeks, if the rain continues, the flooding will not stop because the ground can no longer absorb the water. we are very concerned. alarming situation in the netherlands, residents are preparing for

severe floods. the water level in lake marker has already risen significantly. if this continues, the defenses will fail and houses will be flooded. this is the first time i have seen such a high water level. besides, there is no wind now. we are all afraid, because if the wind starts, we will not be able to stop the flood. already. it is clear that the water is rising, so we hope that there will be no strong wind, to contain the water, hundreds of sandbags have been placed around the lake , rescuers have been put on alert expectations. ekaterina radaeva, news! motso rifles and groups of troops from the west destroyed the crew of enemy drones in the kupinsky direction.

took refuge in a system of blocked cracks to avoid detection of their positions. motorized rifle suspicions really need us, because, as they say in our artillery, podartis saves the blood of the infantry. this has already become the motto of this special operation. we work in cooperation with intelligence. and reconnaissance determines targets with the help of ethereal aircraft, they come to us coordinates and we immediately, promptly and accurately destroy these targets. a laboratory for the restoration of almost lost documents, the modernization of drones and even a robot artist painting portraits. these are just a few areas that students of the oldest electrical engineering university leti in st. petersburg are engaged in, about unique developments and technologies, a special report by evgeniy nipat.

the oldest building of the first electrical engineering era, the legendary popov worked on his inventions in this building, and this is the building is called the local hogwarts, but it has nothing to do with magic, only science. today , staff and students here are engaged in research in the field of electrical engineering and artificial intelligence. radio inventor, professor and university director at one time, alexander popov. his portrait in this laboratory was painted by a robot, one of his debut works. there are several dozen of these in the world, these are all research prototypes, i mixed paints, had the opportunity to get

any shade, this is the first. now artsayb, so are the developers. venice to achieve such technology from the machine, scientists developed their own paint mixing system and designed the frame. we have only five basic colors, from which we can get a huge number of shades, thousands and thousands of a wide variety of colors that can be obtained purely physically by mixing these five basic colors. artur karimov, candidate of technical sciences with art.

a society and atmosphere in which there is an opportunity to work with experienced, talented people who are already implementing and demonstrating these scientific results. project implemented on the basis of the youth program, leaders of scientific groups are primarily trained here. there are not so many good scientific supervisors for graduate students, more than fifteen residents of our research institute became scientific and pedagogical workers at faculties during this time, this is a sandbox in which people can try. something in the field of science, technology, in this laboratory of youth researchers are improving technologies based on chaos theory using functions, where changes in conditions in the system lead to unpredictable consequences, this theory finds practical application, for example, in metal detectors. we would like this detector to be

as sensitive as possible, so that if we want to look for gold that is left after the industrial development of a gold-bearing... gold-bearing vein, then we need a detector that would react to gold and would not react, for example, there on the nails that were left there after work, they work here on communication systems, creating algorithms that help protect data, we can trigger transmission to a specific moment, transmit short or medium-length messages - then also stop transmitting them, in general - for an external observer nothing will change in the communication channel, that is, so far we have achieved that our signals are very difficult to hack, for example, by spectral analysis , for experiments with signal sources, a special center for collective use was created in let. this is an azure chamber, its height is 4 m, length 12. the body is made of steel sheets. such a large measuring object for radio engineering research no longer exists at

any university in st. petersburg. when the door is closed, here. an absolutely sterile room is created in terms of radio signals ; scientists can conduct their experiments here. a measuring instrument resembling a cave, under the arches of which there are even some kind of stalactites made of soundproofing that absorbs echoes. this camera is needed to isolate the measured devices from external radio noise, but because yes, when we are outside, and we have different signals on the air, well. and here we are we can completely suppress external noise. the absence of external signals makes it possible to study in as much detail as possible the characteristics of devices, including those developed by university students and staff. this. operating room from the point of view of radio wave propagation. the meringue chamber is available to students, senior undergraduates and graduate students, where they, having developed their

device, made a prototype, can carry out measurements directly in this chamber. the university actively supports student technological initiatives, those that connected with the it industry and implemented on the basis of the viplap division. young people come here with their ideas, having received the necessary ones. the university provides the foundation , the basis, we give the design from above , let’s say, the walls of this house, we teach here how to make modern things, let’s put it this way, but without a foundation they cannot be made, so the university is necessarily such a point of development for developers. some of the projects, for example, will soon make life easier for first-year students who, out of habit, wander through eight buildings, the total area of ​​which exceeds 80 thousand km.

in the role of guide, nikita zamyslov, together with the team, develops the edokaya guiding thread, the university application navigator. i encountered this problem many times, including when i entered here, i could not find an audience where to submit documents, and often i was also late because... i did not know where the required audience was. to bring ideas to life, we had to thoroughly study the labyrinths of stairs and corridors, go around the majority of the audience and transfer the data into digital form, plus solve the problem of mobile communications are not available everywhere. our application uses special beacon beacons, and we place them on the audience; they serve as landmarks in order to understand where the user’s device is currently located. a similar application is being written for other universities and the local botanical garden, with questions related to navigation. several research groups at the university are working at once, one of them, working on the autopilot system, perhaps has the most memorable mascot or mascot.

ducky town - a training ground simulating a small city, in the role of duck residents. that they are busy with quite ordinary city affairs. we built this laboratory last year here in lati, it is the largest laboratory in terms of area in russia and we are modeling a smart city here. ducky town, that is, a city for ducks, it is called because this idea in general for this project, it arose from our colleagues, and we took over this business from them. robots ply the roads. these three-wheeled babies are used to develop algorithms that prevent, for example, a car from running over. on a pedestrian, you demonstrated how the algorithm processes a critical situation, a pedestrian appeared on the road, the bot detected him and

accordingly decided to stop, and this was done with elements of machine learning and also with elements of computer vision. the testing ground is equipped with dozens of cameras, which makes it possible to hold international events, for example, a student from china can... write his own program, load it into a drone, see how its algorithms work, the entire trajectory of the car is recorded for further analysis, when there is all this infrastructure, you can create and at least you don’t have to invest your own money to buy the same robot. local developments will help improve the control system of both large and small drones. you can install a large full server on the machine, which will perform all tasks and process data from cameras, lidars, radars, small robots with night vision. small computers, so we also solve practical problems that are more related to the operation of equipment, how can we optimize the algorithms so that they were launched on small robots. student

researchers are also developing solutions for drones, which, for example, are combined into a single monitoring system. i was developing an terrain monitoring algorithm that allows drones to fly over a certain territory, look for foreign objects that should not be there, do this in a group, that is, not one drone, several of them, they decide who flies where, who does what checks. there is also a learning machine algorithm that recognizes through the cameras which object is to outsiders. such algorithms are of interest to both business and government agencies. we currently have about twelve students working with us, and as far as the future is concerned, they can interact directly with the instruments and participate in real-life projects, which will be useful for their careers. over the past 5 years, students. university employees have registered hundreds of developments for the it field, dozens of patents for inventions and utility models. now the university is participating in the track

specifically. special program track priority 2030, industry and territorial leadership, and just this track is dedicated to technological leadership in the projects that the university is undertaking, we have a serious technological base in the field of microelectronics, the developments created at the university are in demand in various fields, for example, this device operating on based on the mri principle, allows you to examine microcircuits and reveal the smallest details. industrialists actively resort to the help of researchers. scientists from this group are also modernizing and creating medical devices. yes, this is a prototype of an x-ray device for neonatology, it is in great demand now, because about 10% of children are born with various pathologies, the doctor needs to obtain a shadow x-ray image. to do this, the x-ray laboratory takes a device developed at our department and sets

the required mode. the opportunity to use scientific potential , i’m a happy person, i’m glad, i have a lot of work, a lot of ideas, a lot of plans, and my colleagues won’t let me lie, we always somehow introduce two, three, four projects together, it happens. above they also work in the laboratory of television and video equipment to create medical devices; they produce materials for endoscopes, which allow the doctor to assess the condition of internal organs or perform low-traumatic surgery. cameras can

work both inside a person and under... water, underground, uh, in space, in completely different conditions, depending on the task at hand. in other words, computer vision systems are being improved. product characteristics are checked in a so- called dark room, where simulate, for example, the light conditions of the seabed or outer space. here special conditions have been created for testing machine vision systems, special lighting systems have been created, dynamically configurable, and special test objects have been created. projects are being implemented jointly with rus cosmos enterprises, which is why there is a portrait of gagarin in the laboratory. the research group is working on hyperspectral analysis, a method that allows one to determine the chemical composition of objects from a distance. we have a big one experience in medicine, agriculture, and now, respectively, in machine vision systems, in automation in the space industry. industrialists, those who at their industrial production sites, need to remotely evaluate the properties of objects. this.

historical search teams, cultural topics, historical topics. the methods proposed by loti scientists make it possible to show everything that is lost or hidden in archival documents, to look under a layer of ink, even if they tried to erase the text, stamp or engraving. in this case, we can use different reflective properties of different paints, different pens, take this into account and actually shine through it and see what is under the paints. this can be actively used. in archival work, to restore fading texts, a more complex technology is the identification of microbiology and contamination of documents. the university has a special approach to the issues of preserving archives and artifacts, most often certainly scientific, but they also do not forget about the museum business. documents are stored in this office, dedicated to the memory of alexander popov refuting insinuations about other pseudo-inventors of radio, for example, a copy of the meeting of the academy of sciences, at which the development was presented for the first time in the world. also,

among the exhibits is a telephone. nication control systems, as well as for artificial intelligence, bioengineering and environmental protection. all this thanks to a powerful scientific school, which has more than 135 years of modern instrumentation, lety.