Anastasia and Tatiana Alexeev’s are twin sisters. They come from Angarsk and have been involved in music since early childhood. Anastasia plays the flute, and Tatiana is improving in pop and jazz vocals. Anastasia is a third-year student in Fine Arts, and Tatiana is a third-year student in Advertising and Public Relations. BSU students are repeated prize-winners and winners of various musical competitions, but they performed at the international youth festival "On the Silk Road" for the first time. The contest is very prestigious and popular abroad. This is evidenced by the fact that in the first round, which was held in January in the city of Angarsk, more than 750 young talents from the Irkutsk region, Buryatia, Mongolia and China took part. The audition was held for three days from morning till late evening.
Arina Zhambalova, a student of the International Relations program at the Shandong Polytechnic University of Foreign Languages China, is finishing her internship at the Shandong Polytechnic University of Foreign Languages in Zhizhao, China with good achievements. The second semester from March 4 to July 5, spent in the walls of the Chinese university, was even more intense and difficult than the semester from September to December. After passing the exams successfully, Arina continued her language training, moving from the elementary group to the advanced one. The progress in learning Chinese is obvious: Arina came to China with HSK 2 level of Chinese, and at the end of June she successfully passed the HSK 4 exams! She has already received a certificate for successful completion of the internship and excellent studies, and on July 5th she will receive her remaining diplomas and report cards at a ceremony.
First-year students of the Department of International Studies of Baikal State University visited Manchuria. The University of Russian Language, located in Hulong Buir, organized a warm welcome with an interesting, informative and fulfilling stay for the students.
Students of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of Baikal State University together with teachers of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Irina Zyryanova, Ekaterina Bobrova and Elena Universaluk, took part in the traditional run through the historical center of Irkutsk for the second time.
Jilin Pedagogical University became a new Chinese partner university of Baikal State University.