13 April 2011

Festival of National Cultures

At the beginning of December a meeting of students of different nationalities from the universities of Lugansk showed their original national cultures. African students of our university under the supervision of the lecturers of The Chair of Ukrainian Studies Zviagina V.F. and Mozgova O.Y. performed their national anthem, folk dances and songs. And when Kenyan students sand the song “Ukraine”, there was a storm of applause. Our students were praised for the active part in the festival.

Olympic Lesson for Foreign Students

On December 28 Olympic lesson for foreign students was held by joint efforts of the Chair of Physical Education and Health, the Chair of Foreign Students’ Language Preparation and Lugansk Regional Department of National Olympic Committee. Some guests of honour – Olympic chempions were present at the event: Mykola Chizhikov(rowing), Volodymyr Belyaev (volleyball) and Fedor Lashyonov (volleyball). The speeches were delivered by the head of the Chair of Physical Education and Health, as. prof. Seroshtan V.M., the Head of LRDNOC Kravchenko M.M., Lashyonov F.S. (honorary citizen of Lugansk, repeated world and Olympic champion in volleyball). They told about the origin of Olympics, modern achievements of Ukrainian and Lugansk athletes. The medium of communication was English, great thanks for the Chair of Foreign Students’ Language Preparation lecturers who ensured direct discussion of the speakers and the audience.

The foreign students also spoke about the sports achievements of their compatriots: Ranarul Islam Patkam (preparation course) from Bangladesh, Supaschandran Dussianathan (6th-year student) from Sri-Lanka, G. Gawahar George (6th-year student) from India, Danilola Popula (6th-year student) from Nigeria and Chinazo Nvadima (1st-year student) from the USA. The pictures of their national heroes the audience greeted with great applause. The speakers got Olympic committee caps.

There was Olympics quiz afterwards. The winners got prizes and everybody got congratulations from Father Frost.

New Year Prize Presentation

On January 5, in the sport complex of LSMU prize presentation of best sportsmen took place. The Rector of the University prof. Ivchenko V.K., Foreign Students’ Faculty Dean Toropchyn V.I., Vice-Rector for Educational Work Bibik V.V., the Head of the Chair of Physical Education and Health Seroshtan V.M. were present at the ceremony. The best sportsmen were presented with medals and letters of commendation. After that there was a ceremonial opening of a new gym and a disco.

Foreign Students’ Meeting with the Historical Past of Lugansk Region

On March 1, 2012 first-year students from groups 70-71 visited Lugansk History Museum. The students viewed the topical excursions about the nature and the history of our land. The students got acquainted with archeology and ethnography, saw a lot of numismatic items, rare photos and documents. The students were especially impressed by diverse nature and animal species of our region. They also liked the collections of traditional dresses of people living in our region.

The visit helped the students to know better Lugansk and Ukraine as well.

There was a laying of the foundation ceremony of the International Friendship Lane in the Student Campus of our university. The representatives of 12 national communities and the Dean of International Student Faculty planted nearly 150 trees in the territory of our Alma Mater. The students not only spent time in the fresh air, but also took their pains the territory of the university becomes more green. The fixed pictures of students’ charity work will reach their native lands witnessing to strong friendship between the nations.

Deputy Vice-Rector for Educational Work
Bibik Valery Vasylyovych

Foreign students of our university willingly take part in charity actions organized by our university in our city. Lately along with home students from volunteer group “Virtue” (the supervisor T.V. Laptynova) they took part in some meetings with the pupils from several Lugansk boarding schools for children with limited abilities and orphans.

Students from Nigeria, India, Kenya and Iraq gave a concert “Smile, friends!” to the pupils of Lugansk Boarding School for Children with Limited Abilities.  The children enjoyed the programme very much. Later volunteers and foreign students let sweets to the pupils, talked and made photos with them. The children were very grateful and invited their new friends to come soon again. 

In April there was a meeting “Let’s get acquainted, friends!” with the pupils of Regional Boarding School in the town of Schyastya (in English it is translated as Happiness). Most of its pupils are orphans. The guests delivered a concert, too. The supervisor of university charity work T.V. Laptynova wished this meeting to be the first step of our friendship.

The headmaster of the Boarding School E.I. Nykolaenko thanked dearly to the participants of the meeting and presented them some awards. She also gratefully mentioned the Dean of Foreign Students  Faculty, associate professor V.I. Toropchyn, who helped organize the meeting. 

Again in April foreign students took part in the forum of European Medical Students’ Association in Lugansk. The problems of children’s heart diseases were discussed there. The students of our university and ones from high schools of Kharkov and Donetsk delivered reports about children’s heart diseases and ways of their treatment. The forum was held in Foreign Languages Lyceum. After the meeting the pupils of the lyceum and foreign students performed a concert to the participants of the meeting. The active participants were awarded with presents.

We’d like especially mention active charity actions participation of Nigerian students.

The supervisor of Nigerian Community
Zvyagina V.F.

History of Lugansk State Medical University Badminton Team

Badminton is a popular game in the world. It is a very interesting game in which a player needs skill, speed, power, stamina and accuracy. Badminton team of LSMU is one of the best rated teams in Ukraine. With the hard work of students and coach we have achieved great success in the past 3 years.

The golden era for badminton in LSMU started in 2008 with the interest of our chief Seroshtan V.M. the young team had 8 boys and 5 girls with Avad Sahi as the organizer and captain of the team. The same year we won 3rd place in Lugansk regional competition and 3rd place in all medical university of Ukraine championship. It was just the beginning.

The year 2009 was the year of hard work. Our practice was severe and fruitful. Avad Sahi and Junaid won 1st place in men’s doubles, 3rd place Naqeeb Kara and Febin Andrews mens doubles. Naqeeb Kara 2nd place in men’s singles. 3rd place in womens doubles and mixed doubles won by Reema Pradhan and Roma. Altogether 3rd place in Lugansk regional competition.

2010 was the year of opportunities and we never missed one.

Lugansk regional tournament:- Febin Andrews and Naqeeb Kara brought glory to the university by winning the title in men’s doubles, Naqeeb won 2nd place in men’s singles and Komala Bharathi won 2nd place in women’s singles. 2nd place in mixed doubles won by Naqeeb Kara and Barathi. LSMU badminton team finished 2nd in the city. Our doubles team Naqeeb Kara and Febin Andrews was rated 1st in the city. They hold 1st and 5th positions in singles respectively.

They qualified to play with master sportsmen in Kiev where Naqeeb finished 10th place in Ukraine, Febin 15th place in Ukraine and doubles Febin and Naqeeb 4th place in Ukraine. Naqeeb Kara and Febin Andrews were “The Best Sportsmen” of our university in 2010. The team is looking forward towards the competitions of 2011 – 2012. We are training hard for the upcoming competitions in “All medical chamiopnship of Ukraine” and “Lugansk regional championship”.

We invite all students of LSMU who are interested in playing badminton to join this sports team.

Captain of the badminton team, G.Jawahar George, student of 6th year.