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About the diploma presentation projects at the Leningrad Textile Institute (now Ƶ)
09 July

In honor of the end of the academic year, we tell you how graduation projects used to be defended at the University of Industrial Technology and Design, when the university was still called the Leningrad Textile Institute. What is a diploma thesis, what graduate projects did LTI students work on, where they defended and how they celebrated the defense — read in our article.

In 1930, the Leningrad Textile Institute (now Ƶ) included, in addition to the institute itself, a Textile college and a Work faculty. The consolidation of the educational process in these educational units was the defense of graduation projects, and the graduation project was preceded by practice at leading enterprises in the industry. Not only the teaching staff, but also experienced engineers and industry economists were involved in the management of the diploma design. To help graduate students, Professor L.I. In 1931, Povolotsky, Dean of the Faculty of Economics, developed methodological manuals for working on the thesis and its defense.

He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mathematics in 1932.

Graduation of the LTI Workers' Faculty. 1932.

Graduates of the LTI College. The 1930s.

On the pages of the institute's newspaper Osnova, excellent students shared their experience working on a graduation project and sought to identify a graduate audience from the institute's management, who listened to the students and invited them to meetings, delving into their problems.

In 1931, the first graduation of young specialists took place, which included 14 people who began studying at the textile faculty of the Lensovet Institute of Technology and transferred to the Leningrad Textile Institute, which was organized in 1930.

Graduate students with the institute's public at a meeting.

One of the first graduates of economics engineers.

Diploma room (now a round hall in the main building of Ƶ). The 1930s.

Public defense of the thesis project in the assembly hall. The year is 1933.

Graduates in the LTI assembly hall. 1934.

The public defense of graduation projects at the institute and at enterprises was designed to demonstrate the high quality of specialist training. The projects themselves were very informative and represented either a practical development or an engineering solution. For example, student Alexey Kosygin's graduation project was a master plan for the factory, the arrangement of equipment, and the placement of all services and living quarters. And the presented work by L. Parneva proposed a project for a new spinning laboratory at LTI with the location of machines and equipment, wiring of electrical networks in the new building of the institute on Mayorov Avenue (now Voznesensky). In the 1930s, after successfully defending a thesis project, he was awarded the title of "engineer" with a first degree diploma (which meant a diploma with honors) and a second degree. According to the decree of the Council of People's Commissars and the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) "On higher educational institutions," all graduates who received a first-degree diploma enjoyed a preferential right.:

— to fill vacant positions at work in the specialty, as well as at research work in universities and research institutes;

— to enroll in postgraduate studies at the university;

— to be included in the list of candidates for scientific trips within the country and abroad.

He graduated from the Leningrad Textile Institute in 1930.

By order of the People's Commissariat of Education of December 20, 1933, the Institute was awarded for exemplary work on diploma design. The diagram of the graduation of engineers before 1938 shows a sharp increase in the number of young specialists, starting in 1935, in connection with the graduation of the first independent set of students of the Faculty of Technical Sciences. The figures were about the same from 1939 to 1941.

Diagram of the engineers' graduation from 1930 to 1938.

In 1942 and 1943, there is no information about graduates of the LTI. But in 1944, in Tashkent, where the LTI was evacuated, the graduation projects of economists and technologists were defended again. And after the institute returned from the evacuation, the educational process was restored, and the graduation design was also restored.

Graduate students are economists at LTI in Tashkent. The year is 1944.

Graduates are technologists of LTI in Tashkent. The year is 1944.

The Institute's order No. 234 of November 28, 1945 speaks about a very serious attitude towards graduation design: "In order to achieve a responsible attitude of students towards completing their graduation assignments, to establish the following work schedule for graduate students from November 28, 1945:

— start of work from 9-00;

— lunch break from 13-00 to 14-00;

— the end of work is at 22:00.

The attendance should be recorded in a special journal with a signature. I would like to mention a student of the Faculty of Mechanics, Comrade Obukhov, who completed his graduation assignment ahead of schedule."

Graduate student of the Faculty of Mechanics, Comrade Obukhov, at work.

Post-war issue.

Special attention was paid to graduate students who had been demobilized from the ranks of the Red Army and had a long break from their studies. According to Order No. 237 of December 1, 1945, additional individual classes and consultations were organized for them.

In the 1960s, thanks to the participation of students in the Student Scientific Society (SSS) and work in the Student Design Bureau (SKB), established in 1961, graduation projects began to be carried out on orders from enterprises on topics relevant to production. In 1965, for the first time, the preparation of graduate students for the defense of projects in a foreign language was introduced. The number of foreign students studying at the university has increased. In 1961-1970, 72 international students from 14 countries defended their graduation projects.

Graduation of Chinese students. The 1950s and 1960s.

In the diploma room. The 1950s.

Student Nikolay Ashnin at work on his thesis project.

In the diploma room. The 1950s.

In the diploma room. The 1960s.

After graduation, in the courtyard of the dormitory. The 1950s.

The invitation card for the graduation party 1960.

The defense of graduation projects in the 1970s and 1980s showed the increased creative and engineering maturity of graduates. In 1975, 97% of graduates defended their graduation projects with "excellent" and "good" grades, and 40% of graduation projects were "recommended for implementation in production." The use of new progressive teaching methods and new types of computing equipment in the educational process has affected the quality of graduation work. The replacement of shared computers with personal computers at the university made it possible to open computer classes at graduate departments. In 1985, 85% of graduation projects and works were carried out using computers.

Graduates of foreign graduates. The 1970s.

After defending their theses, graduates celebrated graduation in different ways. Many graduates took group photos in the most beautiful historical places of the city (Palace Square, St. Isaac's Cathedral, Hermitage, Neva embankments). After all, many of them received job assignments in different cities of the country. Sometimes the rector's office organized graduation parties with a rich program, ending with boat trips along the Neva River.

When switching to a two—level system of bachelor's and master's degree students, graduation involves defending their final qualifying papers (WRC) — analogues of diploma projects and papers — in the relevant areas of study. In some areas of training, the university has retained specialist training. In accordance with this, graduates receive bachelor's, master's, and specialist qualifications. As before, students undergo a pre-graduate internship before defending their thesis. In the course of their studies, students study the discipline "Research and project activities", designed to help future graduates.

Within the framework of the Priority 2030 program, bachelor's and master's degree programs are defended in a foreign language.

Since 2008, the university has established a tradition of awarding diplomas with honors to the best graduates of the university in a solemn ceremony in the Atrium of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Since 2003, the best graduates of the city have been awarded the gratitude of the Governor of St. Petersburg and a commemorative statuette from the Council of Rectors.