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On November 22, the VIII International week of aerospace technologies "Aerospace Science Week" started at Moscow Aviation Institute, it is a part of the Year of Science and Technology and is timed to the 60^th anniversary of the first manned flight into space.

The Moscow Aviation Institute team reached the final of the youth championship "BRICS: Sustainable Development", which was held under the auspices of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN".

On November 7-13, in Coimbra (Portugal), the European Rugby Championship for players under 20 was held, and two players from Moscow Aviation Institute were part of the Russian national team.

On November 16, 2021, the II International Online Conference "Composite Materials and Structures" was conducted at Moscow Aviation Institute.

Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) is going back to the combined learning format: classes will be held both online and offline. 

Assistant Professor of the Department 602 "Design and Strength of Aircraft Missile and Spacecraft" of Moscow Aviation Institute and senior researcher of the Institute of Applied Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPRIM RAS) Sergey Russkikh is working on his doctoral dissertation, and he offers innovative solutions to important fundamental and applied problems in the area of linear and nonlinear mechanics of controlled spacecraft.

On November 4, the third stage of the SIRIUS international isolation experiment begins in the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 

This year more than 600 foreigners became the freshmen of Moscow Aviation Institute. Over the past six years, this figure has more than doubled, and in 2021 the total number of foreign students at MAI exceeded 1,700 for the first time.

On October 16-17, the final stage of the F-2D Model Aircraft Sport World Cup took place – the air battle, in which eight teams from Moscow Aviation Institute took part. 

Students of Moscow Aviation Institute discovered oil pollution in the Black Sea after analyzing satellite images.

Darya Melnikova, student of the magister course of the Institute No. 11 "Materials Science and Technology of Materials" of Moscow Aviation Institute, represented Russia at the International Student Olympiad on hot forging and pressing technologies in the "Stamping" section.

Sergey Trubenko, the student of the “Vzlet” branch of Moscow Aviation Institute, developed a radiation and chemical monitoring device for army special forces operating in military conflicts zones. 

Sergey Dyachenko, the postgraduate student of the department 703 "System design of aerial systems" of the Institute No. 7 "Robotic and intelligent systems" is working on the creation of a complex for automating testing of graphic information and sound warnings as part of the verification of indication and alarm systems of civil aircraft.

 As part of the Russian sports team, the competition was attended by employees of MAI Institute No. 2 "Aviation, Rocket Engines and Power Plants" Alexey Ezhov and Vladimir Kiselev, and the employee of MAI Resource Center for Scientific Research and Innovative Technologies Egor Larin.

Igor Nikiforov, the graduate of Moscow Aviation Institute, who now leads the team of DevOps engineers in a large company, shared his experience in this area. 

“Smolenskaya Gazeta” newspaper continues issuing publications basing on interviews taken during the radio marathon "Forever the First" that is dedicated to the anniversary of Yury Gagarin's flight into space.

The period of tough restrictions caused by COVID-19 made the universities adjust to it and changed the educational process.

It is quite difficult to imagine such an area of human activity where polymer materials are not used. Polymers are the well-known polyurethane, polypropylene and many other types of materials starting with the "poly-" prefix. These materials have a number of advantages: lightness, strength and elasticity, low cost and, unlike metals, they are not subject to corrosion.