Dear colleagues, dear students! I thank everyone for the successful results of work in 2024, for their responsible attitude to your work. I would like to wish everyone strong Siberian health and family well-being!

To read Oleg Gribunov's full message of congratulations, please visit: https://vkvideo.ru/video-35366597_456241239.

Аlthough the academic year continues, the calendar year 2024 is coming to an end and it is possible to summarize some results.

This year Baikal State University enrolled 4139 students in 59 programs of study.

The Manchurian Institute of Russian Language of Inner Mongolia University is a long-standing partner of Baikal State University. At the meeting, colleagues from China once again confirmed their plans to implement the partnership program until 2032 and discussed with the BSU administration the possibilities of exchanging delegations of students and teachers.

In January 2025, Daria Orlova, a student of Baikal State University, will represent Russia at an international beauty pageant in China.

Hoang Dinh Cuong's dissertation topic is devoted to mathematical analysis and strength characteristics of radial turbomachines with parameter tuning. The work was carried out by the young scientist under the guidance of Oleg Repetsky, Doctor of Science, Professor, Vice-Rector for International Relations of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education “Irkutsk State Agrarian University”.

BSU students took part in the scientific and practical conference “Republic of Korea: History and Modernity”. The event was held at the Institute of Philology and Foreign Languages of Irkutsk State University with the support of the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Irkutsk. Participants from different cities presented reports on the economy, culture and international relations of the Republic of Korea, and also discussed the difficulties of translation from Korean into Russian.

In 2024, the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of Baikal State University celebrates its 30th anniversary.

Fourth-year students of Linguistics visited the performance “Gaidai's Formula” at the N.M. Zagursky Musical Theater. N.M. Zagursky Musical Theater.

At the invitation of the National Council of Youth and Children's Associations of Russia and MIREA - Russian Technological University students of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of BSU Galina Skryabikova, Elina Zausaeva, Sofia Yankova from October 28, 2024 to November 05, 2024 took part in the first study tour within the Program of study tours of student groups between Russia and the North Korea.

In the year of the 175th anniversary of the founder of the Irkutsk Art Museum named after V. P. Sukachev, the Gallery of Siberian Art presents the exhibition of the Moscow AZ Museum (Anatoly Zverev Museum) “My Teacher Leonardo”. It was to this exhibition that an excursion was organized for foreign students of the International Faculty of BSU.

First-year master students of the BSU International Faculty took part in the grand opening of the exhibition of Chinese art “Journey to the Celestial Empire”, which took place in the main building of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. The exhibition is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the proclamation of the People's Republic of China and is organized within the program of the Years of Culture of Russia and China.

Vladimir Sinichenko, Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations of Baikal State University, took part in the exhibition-presentation of Chinese higher education institutions in Irkutsk.