General
Zelenograd (in literal translation - ’Green City’), a suburban city located 40 km from Moscow,
has numerous forests, parks, lakes, ponds and rivers in its area. The quiet and verdured town is considered
to be a comfortable place for education, work and living. Zelenograd was built in 1962 as a center for
microelectronics development and production (Soviet Silicon Valley). Currently it has more than 50 R & D centers
and enterprises in development and production of a wide range of micro- and nanoelectronics equipment and products.
Zelenograd is a scientific town; more than 82% of its citizens have higher education.
Education
The major state university in Zelenograd – the heart of its higher technical education – is Moscow Institute for Electronics Technology (MIET)
leading technical university for electronic industry of Russia. MIET is one of 39 universities, which have the status of
’national research university’. The major areas of education and research at MIET are electronics
(including nanoelectronics), biotechnology for electronic applications, information and electronics security, and
materials for electronics.
Science & Technology
As a national center for electronic industry Zelenograd has several R & D organizations with their focus on electronics
and related areas, such as IC research and production consortium Angstrem, and
State Research Institute for Problems in Physics )
and its common use research facility Sinkhrotron leading federal nanoelectronics R & D center.
Zelenograd is also a home of NT-MDT – consortium of
the companies for development and production of nanotechnology equipment.
Transportation
Bus transportation will be provided to the conference participants to the NGC2011
sessions at Zelenograd on September 16 (Friday) from the metro stations Pushkinskaya,
Rechnoj Vokzal and Universitetsyaya. Further details will be available later at the
conference web site and at the registration desk. Those who plan to travel to Zelenograd independently may use one of the
following options:
- By train: From Leningradskij Vokzal (train station) every 20 min to Kryukovo station.
Travel time is between 30 and 50 min depending on how many stops a train is making. Price - 90 rubles (about 3 US dollars).
- By bus: From several metro stations. We reccommend to use the bus No. 400 from Rechnoj Vokzal metro station
(use first vagon if you arrive from the downtown). Travel time is 30-40 min, if there are no traffic jumps.
Price - 50 rubles (about 2 US dollars).
- By car: Take Leningradskoe Shosse and then take exist to Zelenograd.
Venue
The plenary session III and afternoon sessions VII and VIII will be held at Zelenograd Center of Entrepreneurship Development.
Address: 8 Ulitsa Yunosti (Youth Street) - Google map. The school sessions V and VI will be held at
Club House MIET - Google map
Acknowledgement
Photos are taken from the Students' web portal of MIET: www.swamp.ru
