17.10.2016  Student initiation ceremony for NovSU freshmen

On Friday, October 14, at 5 pm the traditional student initiation ceremony was organized for the NovSU freshmen in the conference hall of the School of Humanities (Antonovo). The Deputy Governor of the Novgorod region Alexander Smirnov, the head of the Department of Education and Youth Policy Aleksandr Shirin, Rector of Viktor Weber and directors of the NovSU schools greeted the freshmen.

The program of the ceremony included performance by NovSU students, lottery and prize drawing, competitions between the schools. By tradition, the freshmen tasted the "sweet granite of science" and uttered the "terrible" oath.

This year, about 3000 people enrolled at the Novgorod State University and its colleges to all forms of education, of whom 768 freshmen would study on a budgetary basis.

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