Professor of the High School of Journalism and Mass Communications of St. Petersburg State University, editor-in-chief of Cultural Petersburg weekly, Doctor of Philology, Sergey Ilchenko holds a number of lectures, seminars, master classes and special courses at Donetsk National University from February 26 to March 1. The event is supported by the Russian Center.

A round-table discussion “summing up the advanced training of the teachers of the Gorlovka Institute of Foreign Languages in 2019” was held on Wednesday, January 15, at the Gorlovka Institute of Foreign Languages. The Minister of Education and Science of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Mikhail Kushakov, took part in its work.

On Sunday, December 15, Gorlovka Institute of Foreign Languages held the closing ceremony of the second International Forum “Volunteer of the Republic–2019”. This important event, which took place in the year of the 70th anniversary of the institute, brought together active, talented, caring young people from Donetsk, Enakievo, Kirovskoye, Makeyevka, Debaltsevo, Lugansk, Yaroslavl, Astrakhan, Nizhny Novgorod and other cities of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics as well as of the Russian Federation. These people actively participated in the work of platforms and sections devoted to relevant topics of volunteerism.

Donetsk National University hosted a plenary session as a part of the II International Forum “Russian world and Donbass: from cooperation to integration of education, science, innovation and culture”. The forum is supported by the Russian Center and the Russkiy Mir Foundation.

On Tuesday, October 15, Gorlovka Concert Hall “Stirol” hosted a solemn event dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Gorlovka Institute for Foreign Languages (GIFL). This significant day gathered many people united by a sense of deep respect for Alma Mater, one of the oldest higher educational institutions in Donbass.

On October 3-4, the International Research-to-Practice Conference Effective Structures, Materials and Construction Technologies was held at Lipetsk State Technical University (LSTU). The scientific forum was organized by the Engineering and Construction Department of LSTU under the guidance of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS).

On Friday, June 21,  Denis Pushilin, the Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic met with Vladimir Antonov, Deputy Prime Minister, Eleonora Fedorenko, Adviser to the Head of the DPR on the Rights of the Child, and Mikhail Kushakov, Minister of Education and Science. The main point of the event was children’s health issues in the summer.

Master’s-level student of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Donetsk National University Elena Vishnevskaya became the winner of the novice translator contest in St. Petersburg. Elena was recognized as the best in the category “Translation of the English-language Prose,” which traditionally is the most competitive.

On Wednesday, March 13, the conference entitled “Integration of M. Gorky Donetsk National Medical University into the educational environment of the Russian Federation” was held in Donetsk.

As part of the implementation of the state project of the Graduates’ Employment Roadmap at the Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade named after Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky, February 26, Republican Career Day was held.