Lilia Schittenburg Directed by Hryhory Dityatkovsky Theater on Liteiny Saint Petersburg In the play by Grigory Dityatkovsky, as in his previous famous productions “Father” and “Marble,” one of the main roles is played by Sergei Dreyden (right), who received the “Golden Mask” this year for best actor (Photo: Yuri Belinsky ) Grigory Dityatkovsky, a director known for his strict taste (just remember his “The Father,” which received two “Golden Masks” this year, and the famous “Marble” by Joseph

How should a machine apply marking lines on a tennis court (see figure) move so that, firstly, the process of applying paint is not interrupted and, secondly, so that a minimum amount of paint is spent?

"Itogi" (Photo: Nationals Theater ) The concert program "Okinawa Solar Circle", prepared by Japanese artists for the meeting of the heads of the Big Eight, combined the picturesqueness of ancient theatrical performances and the entertainment of modern variety shows. The audience was especially delighted by the funny dance of the dragon that appeared in the finale. Most of the spectators could not sit still and began to dance after the strange creature.

“Vladimir Gusinsky is in a three-person cell. Next to him are people who are also equally intelligent.

Alexander Panov The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin. Department of Personal Collections Moscow David Yackerson. "Sketch of a panel poster for the decoration of Vitebsk in honor of the first anniversary of the October Revolution" (1918). In the center is a monument to Karl Marx This compact and conceptual exhibition can be called an “art history” exhibition.

Boris Startsev Vocational education in Finland is developing along with the country's economy The Pohijs-Savo Higher Technical School unites vocational schools and institutes of various profiles: the college of hotel and restaurant management (in the picture - a lesson for future bartenders), the school of medicine and social work.

Boris Zhukov Russian vocational schools have ceased to be a transit point on the way from school to zone, but have not yet become a modern system of vocational training (Photo: Pavel Gorshkov ) "You'll go to vocational school!" - this threat in Soviet times was the most effective lever of school administration in conflicts with students as they approached the eighth grade. At least with those who had some ambitions.

Sergey Ivanov Rail trolleys. Drawing by Georg Bauer from 1516. ( The Guiness Book of Rails ) The streets of ancient cities are often furrowed with deep ruts carved into the stone pavements - these are traces left by the wheels of countless carts. In principle, such a groove, guiding the wheel in a certain direction, is a kind of “rail inside out”.

B.S. Director General of the Finnish National Education Authority Jukka Sarjala: “The needs of the labor market are constantly changing. Therefore, we are constantly reforming the education system.” (Photo: Pavel Gorshkov ) The President and Prime Minister of Finland are members of the Social Democratic Party, one of whose slogans is universal access to education. Therefore, Finns receive both general and vocational education free of charge. Plus social benefits for students.

Boris Startsev Rural vocational schools in the Moscow region operate by inertia The director of Volokolamsk vocational school # 53, Alevtina Kondratyuk, saved the school from imminent liquidation by finding extra-budgetary sources of funding: she opened self-supporting workshops and placed a branch of the International Academy of Tourism in the school building. (Photo: Pavel Gorshkov ) Agricultural vocational schools near Moscow were clearly built according to a single project.

E.P. The Taliban movement originated in Pakistan in the 90s of the 20th century, but its ideological roots should be sought in British India in the last third of the 19th century. The famous Haqqaniya Madrasah, where the “student” leaders studied, is the heir of the Deoband Muslim University, founded in 1867 in the Indian city of Deoband by famous Islamic theologians Muhammad Kazim Nanotavi and Rashid Ahmad Gangohi.

Artem Vargaftik Teldec Violinist Gidon Kremer, famous for his love of sounding paradoxes, is from Riga - and this is not just an entry in the metric certificate, but also lingering nostalgia. Several years ago, he gathered young musicians from three Baltic countries through a competition and united them into an orchestra named after him.

Evgeniy Pakhomov In the homeland of the Taliban, Pakistan, they are preparing for a global Islamic revolution (Photo: Evgeny Pakhomov ) If you look at Peshawar from the bridge over the Bara River, it seems that you are standing on the border of two different worlds. On the one hand, an ordinary South Asian city with its bustle, colorful colors and the smell of hot cakes. On the other, poor buildings stretching to the horizon: refugee camps from neighboring Afghanistan.

Natalia Shkurenok Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishing The famous photographer Mikhail Lemkhin was friends with Brodsky all his life: both were natives of Leningrad, both left the country, and already in America Mikhail made the bulk of the photographic portraits, which he included in the album - there are 186 frames in total. But it consists not only of Brodsky’s portraits. Without Leningrad, precisely Leningrad, and not St. Petersburg, this publication would not have existed.