The company of our graduate has been named as one of the best Russian startups known abroad

Rossotrudnichestvo has made a selection of top five business ideas that have become successful not only in their country, but also on the world market. Apps for travellers and shoppers, a language school and a high-tech pizza restaurant of a graduate of Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University are among them.Rossotrudnichestvo is the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation. The day before, the Agency has announced a selection of domestic startups that have already become giants of their market at the world level or are just gaining momentum.Dodo PizzaThe first pizza restaurant was opened in Syktyvkar in 2011 and it didn’t look very technological. Today it is the chain of more than 600 pizza restaurants in 13 countries. Fedor Ovchinnikov, a graduate of the History Department in Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University, is the founder of the business.The main difference between “Dodo” …

The practice in the Health center: international students study nursing

International students of the Medical Institute practiced in the Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University’s Health center. Read below about how they learned the basics of nursing, about their the challenges and plans for the future. More than 120 international students from India, Nepal, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Swaziland, Egypt and other CIS countries has been studying at the Medical Institute of Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University.Students from the Medical Institute have practiced in the Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University’s Health center, where they tried their work skills in nursing. A training session lasted for 6-7 hours in a day. The Health center’s staff tried to explain the information for international students as clear as possible: sometimes they had to use the sign language. Through the practice students acquired such skills as disinfection of medical equipment, management of health-care waste, measuring the height, body weight, temperature and heart rate and, also, …

Sport

The most popular sports in Komi are cross-country skiing, futsal, basketball, swimming, wrestling.Raisa Smetanina, Nikolay Bazhukov and Vasily Rochev Sr. from Syktyvkar should be noted among the athletes of the republic who have achieved the most outstanding success in sports as Olympic skiing champions. Skier Vasily Rochev Jr. became the world champion and prize winner of the 2006 Olympic Games. Marina Pylaeva (short track), Olympic champion in multiple powerlifting Viktor Furazhkin, European swimming champion Arkady Vyatchanin and other athletes are also well-known in the country and abroad.

Art

The museum network of the republic unites more than 90 museums and their branches. The most important of them is the National Museum of Komi. Its structure includes departments of history, nature, ethnography, the memorial museum of I.A. Kuratov. In the collections of the other largest museum in Komi – the National Gallery – there are the works of Komi, Russian and foreign masters. The funds include more than five thousand exhibits of painting, graphic art, sculpture, arts and crafts.Exhibition activities in the capital of the Komi Republic are carried out by the Ugor Center for Cultural Initiatives.There are five professional theaters in the republic. The oldest of them is the Victor Savin State Academic Drama Theater. It dates back to October, 1930. At all stages of many years of creative activity, the drama theater team, along with the national repertoire, constantly turns to Russian and world classics.The Komi Republican …

Ethnic groups and national relations

Representatives of 130 nationalities live in the Komi Republic, among which the vast majority are Russians (65%). Komi representatives – 24%. You can also distinguish Ukrainians, Belarussians, Tatars, Germans. Other national groups that live in Komi: Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Chuvashs, Komi-Izhemtsy, Bashkirs, Moldavians, Maris, Udmurts, Mordovians, Lezgins, Lithuanians, Uzbeks, Poles, Kyrgyz, Komi Permyaks, Georgians, Nenets.

Region’s attractions

1. Yakshinsky elk farm – the only place in the world where experiments are conducted on the domestication of moose. The herd of once almost completely destroyed animals is gradually growing – this is the result of hard work. This is the visiting card of the Pechoro-Ilychsky nature reserve!2. The most famous mountain range in the Urals is the Ilych belt stone. The western branch of this mountain net is the Man-Pupu-Ner, Yany-Pupu-Ner, Bear Stone (Uygaless-Ner) ridges. In this part of the Ural Range it is possible to see stone remains. “Seven Bogatyrey” on the flat top of Man-Pupu-Ner (which means Mansi, Small Mountain of Idols) especially amaze tourists. Seven stone pillars lined up in a chain, and one, the largest, stands apart. The height of the pillars is from 22 to 50 meters. This miracle was created by nature in more than 200 million years and is one of …

The most outstanding Komi people

Pitirim Sorokin (1889-1968) – the world famous sociologist, philosopher.Ivan Kuratov (1839-1875) – founder of Komi literature, linguist, translator, Komi poet.Kallistrat Zhakov (1866-1926) – Komi-Zyryan ethnographer, philosopher, writer.Ivan Avramov (1915-1985) – actor, theater director, famous artist of the USSR.Valentina Vityazeva – the first woman rector in Russia, the first rector of Syktyvkar State University.Glafira Sidorova – theater actress, famous artist of the USSR.Valery Leontiev – a Soviet and Russian pop singer.Raisa Smetanina – Honored sportsman, Olympic champion.Sergey Kapustin – Honored sportsman.

Russian features

Russians, as well as residents of any other country, have traits that distinguish them from representatives of other cultures. If you know about them, you will quickly adapt to local conditions.They like to host guests. Russians are known for their hospitality. They like to meet guests and enjoy visiting friends themselves. Generously laid tables are the main attribute of such meetings.They don’t make visits without gifts. In Russia, people don’t make visits with empty hands. Even if it’s not a birthday, but just friendly gatherings. Something must be brought. It can be a cake, sweets, wine or chocolate for younger family members.They believe in signs. Russians usually spit over their left shoulder if a black cat crosses the road; they knock on the tree so as not to jinx their plans, and don’t whistle at home, so as not to lose money. If they return to the room, having forgotten …

People

The main value of any region is its people. Thousands of people work every minute for the benefit of the republic and the country. And whoever it is – a minister, a banker, a miner, an oilman, a teacher, a cook or an athlete – all of them are people from the Komi Republic, those who are proud of the Komi land.