The St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design held a quiz for students of St. Petersburg on the knowledge of domestic operating systems. The event was a logical continuation of the interaction between Open Mobile Platform LLC and the Digital Department of Ƶ. Potential partnership between the St. Petersburg university and a domestic manufacturer of IT products is seen as one of the steps in implementing the university's development programme under the Ministry of Education and Science's Priority 2030 programme.


The quiz itself was dedicated to the company's products: the Aurora operating system and other solutions of the ecosystem, as well as questions from the world of IT, OS Linux, UI Kit and other IT-related topics. Aurora, by the way, is currently one of the flagships of import substitution in the field of mobile operating systems.


Andrey Volkov, a senior lecturer at the Department of Digital and Additive Technologies at Ƶ and an AI specialist, said:
‘In addition to mobile devices, it can be used as an information system for cars, digital kiosks and other embedded systems. It is based on the open source operating system Linux and uses frameworks for building applications, which allows mobile developers to significantly reduce training time when switching to this platform, as well as the transfer of applications from other operating systems.’


Teams from four St. Petersburg universities participated in the quiz. The first and third places were won by teams of Ƶ students, beating young IT specialists from the State University of Economics, the Budenniy Military Academy of Communications and the Mozhaisky Military Space Academy.
‘The questions on the quiz were of different levels, but all of them were related to mobile development. The participants had to demonstrate knowledge of both the set of operating system components and the capabilities of software libraries, as well as guess ported games from a screenshot.’
Anton Soshnikov, Head of the Digital Department of Ƶ




