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Exhibition

Far North and Far South

21 May to 25 June 2024
Diaghilev Museum of Modern Art, Lieutenant Schmidt embankment, 11

SPbU hosts an exhibition dedicated to the Arctic and Antarctic for the National Polar Explorer’s Day.

The new exhibition at the Diaghilev Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to the South and North Poles, just in time for Polar Explorer’s Day — 21 May. The exhibition features works by renowned contemporary artists on the theme of the Arctic and Antarctic, combined with scientific exhibits and archival material. 

Here in St Petersburg, in the exhibition hall overlooking the Neva River, the seaport and the Admiralty shipyards, from where ships set off on expeditions to the Arctic Circle and Antarctica, such a theme takes on a special significance, bringing the ’polar myth’ to life in the most vivid way. 

The exhibition features works by artists who, each in their own way, convey the «polar myth» in their art, such as 

  • Yuri Alexandrov 
  • Oleg Kotelnikov 
  • Viktor Kuznetsov 
  • Oleg Maslov 
  • Andrey Medvedev 
  • Timur Novikov 
  • Vadim Ovchinnikov 
  • Andrey Rudiev 
  • Ivan Sotnikov 
  • Andrey Khlobystin 
  • Ilya Chichikin 

The exhibition will also feature Maxim Pezhemsky’s 1990 film "Comrade Chkalov’s Crosses the North Pole", exhibits from the SPbU Museum of Physics and Mathematics, the Dmitri Mendeleev Museum and Archives, and archival and object material from expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.

Events

The Role of Physicists and Mathematicians in the Great Patriotic War

Best Soviet Films on the Great Patriotic War

Vaccine prophylaxis in the modern world

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Other news

The Role of Physicists and Mathematicians in the Great Patriotic War

12 May 2025 Online exhibition

St Petersburg University Prepares to Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Great Victory

7 May 2025 News

SPbU Rector takes part in the ceremony of laying a capsule in the foundation of a church near Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery

7 May 2025 News

Best Soviet Films on the Great Patriotic War

13 May 2025 Online lecture

"I am here to learn the Russian way of thinking"

24 April 2025 Student Reviews
"Peterburgskii Dnevnik" newspaper:

Nikolay Kropachev: "Churches at universities are becoming centres of spiritual life"

3 April 2025 Rector's Interviews
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