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The fourth group of students of the joint Russian-Chinese Master's degree Program of Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) defended their theses.

Anzhelika Parfenova, a graduate of Moscow Aviation Institute, is one of the few female pilots in our aviation so far.

Graduate of MAI, chairman of the itinerary commission of MAI tour club, traveler Sergey Romanenkov belongs to this kind of people. 

Leonid Elenin, a graduate of Moscow Aviation Institute, a researcher of Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, holds the record for the number of discovered asteroids and comets among CIS astronomers.

On July 28, a solemn commencement ceremony was held for foreign graduates of English-language bachelor, specialist and master degrees programs and graduates of double degree programs of MAI in collaboration with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Beihang University, Nanjing University of Aviation and Aeronautics, Harbin Polytechnic University and Zhejiang University.

On July 8, at the Almaz Orbital Station exposition, that is located at the premises of Moscow Aviation Institute, the commencement ceremony took place: foreign graduates of Russian-language bachelor's, specialist's and master's degree programs received their diplomas.

Arsen Gritskevich and Alexey Nikiforov, the graduates of Moscow Aviation Institute designed and developed the Bush 505 starlifter aircraft from scratch while working in the private domestic aircraft company AGAN.

This year the third group of MAI-SJTU master’s degree program participants (24 Russian and 29 Chinese students) went through the defense of the Shanghai graduation theses. They studied "Design of units from polymer composite materials", "Aircraft design: product life cycle management" and "Aircraft engines".

Experts with Russian technical education have always been in high demand at both Russian and international enterprises. The graduates told us how to facilitate intercultural communication and what the students should pay attention to during their studies in order to cooperate with foreign corporations successfully.

Nina Zarina, a charming MAI graduate, the absolute winner of the “Wings for Life” international race, is called the fastest girl in Moscow running clubs and the best runner in Washington.

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.

It was exactly 64 years ago that Sputnik-1, the first satellite, was launched into orbit. The launch of the Soviet satellite marked the beginning of a new space era in the history of mankind.

Kirill Balyasny, the graduate of Moscow Aviation Institute, together with a team of like-minded people, who are also MAI graduates, is now building a single electric plane – an economical aircraft, the operation of which does not require registration, certification and pilot's license!

Ivan Poupyrev, the graduate of Moscow Aviation Institute, visionary, inventor, scientist, director of the advanced technologies division of Google, gave a lecture to the students of Moscow Aviation Institute on innovative technologies of the future, which are already being developed today.

Seraphim Degtyarev, the graduate of MAI Composite Materials, Structures and Microsystems Technologies Department, developed a material based on the lunar soil simulator and thermoplastic polystyrene.

Oleg Peisakhovich, the graduate of Institute No. 2 "Aviation, Rocket Engines and Power Plants", received the "Best Graduate-2021" award from the Ministry of Education and Science. 

Russia will be represented by Alexey Rubtsov, Victoria Meshkova and Yulia Kaplina in Tokyo at the Olympics this year.

MAI alumni, Daria Stepura, tells about a wheel that would facilitate the lives of those who are unable to walk.