2008 year		 ORT Center. Significant events
February, 12 - 14 Visit of Mr. Sindy Straus and Mr. Rony Kalinsky to the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre and the School # 550
January, 27 –
February, 2		 Mrs. Marina Sorokina, ORT-Petersburg Centre Director, Mrs. Anna Dashevskaya, ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre Pr-manager, Mr. Boris Notkin, School # 550 Principal, Mrs. Zanna Kuzmina, School # 274 Principal, took part in the seminar for directors of ORT Centers and Schools of CIS organized in Israel

2007 year
October, 15 Mrs. Evelyn Driscoll, the donor of a number of ORT projects, visited the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre
August, 23 Visit of Mrs. Adrian Bernick to the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre
August, 9 Visit of Mrs. Ann Baum to the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre
May, 27 - 29 World ORT Executive Committee meeting in Saint Petersburg
May, 21 ORT-St.Petersburg Centre took part in the annual bar-bat-mitzvah organized for students of city Jewish schools
April, 29 ORT-St.Petersburg Centre took part in the events devoted to celebration of Independence Day of Israel State
April, 19 - 22 Visit of Mrs. Katherine Derjmalova, the Principal of Jewish School “Lauder” (Prague, Czechia), and Ms. Lucia Soklova, the Deputy principal of the Lauder School
February, 7 On the photo exhibition “Charity in Russia: history and the present” the ORT-St.Petersburg Centre presented unique documents and photo materials of pre revolution and modern charitable activity of ORT
February, 1 Visit of delegation of the Publishing House “Prosveschenie” to the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre and the School # 550

2006 year
December, 8 Presentation of ORT web - resource "Holocaust through Art" on the science seminar devoted to the problems of tolerance
November, 3 Mr. Mark Timsit, ORT France Director General, visited the ORT-Petersburg Centre and the School # 550
November, 3 Mrs. Marina Sorokina, ORT-Petersburg Director, presented ORT educational projects on the seminar for regional representatives of Israel Cultural Centres of north-west of Russia
September, 4 Mrs. Lois Hollander visited the ORT-Petersburg Centre and the School # 550
September, 1 Mark de Gunzburg with his wife visited the ORT-Petersburg Centre and the School # 550
August, 7 Gail Kuhn, the member of Palmaid Chapter Community (USA), with her family visited the ORT-Petersburg Centre
July, 25 The School # 550 and the School # 274 principals took part at the seminar in London
May, 15 Jaroslav Drozd, Consul General of Poland Repablic, visited the ORT-Petersburg Centre and the School # 550
June, 6 - 7 Colleagues from Riga visited the ORT-Petersburg Centre
April, 26 ORT-Petersburg Centre took part at the city science-practical conference "Holocaust: Memory and Prevention" carried out in Saint Petersburg
April, 20 Melinda Levin, the WAORT member, with her husband visited the ORT-Petersburg Centre and the School # 550
March, 26 - 31 Final round of the contest “The best ORT Teachers in CIS and Baltic States for 2005/2006 academic year” in the ORT de Gunzburg Resource Centre and the School # 550
February, 20 Halban family, the direct descendants of Horace de Gunzburg, visited the ORT-Petersburg Centre
February, 16 Supported by the ORT-Petersburg Centre the seminar on school informatization took part in the School # 550
January, 27 Owen Kemp, Vice-president of HP, Director of HP in Russia, and Karel Vavruska, Director of Development of HP in Russia, visited the ORT-Petersburg Centre and the School # 550

2005 year
December, 16-18 Grigory Vodopyan and Natalya Egorova took part in the seminar for heads of ORT Centres in Kiev
December, 14 Heads of HP-ORT Centres, Sergey Gorinskiy and Marina Sorokina took part in the HP forum in Saint Petersburg
September, 29 Geoffrey Yantian, Deputy Head of Coordination Department of World ORT, and Sergey Gorinskiy, Deputy Director of ORT in CIS and Baltic Stares, visited the ORT-Petersburg Centre and the School # 550
September, 12 Married couple Panovka, members of Federation of Jewish communities of USA, visited the School # 550 and the ORT-Petersburg Centre
September, 11 Larry Kadis with his wife and married couple Miller, the leaders of Cleveland (USA) Jewish community, visited the ORT-Petersburg Centre and the School # 550
September, 09 The official opening of the Saint Petersburg Jewish Community House (YESOD), where World ORT opens Vocational Training Centre (VTC)
September, 09 Shelley Fagel, WAORT Vice-president, Sonia Gomes, Head of International Liaison Department of World ORT, and Avi Ganon, World ORT Representative in Russia, Belarus & Central Asia, visited the ORT-Petersburg Centre and the School # 550
July, 10 -24 Diana Furshteyn, the student of 10th form of the School # 550 ('ORT-Gunzburg' project) took part in the international seminar, organized by Rosner School in Great Britain
July, 03 - 10 Olga Tuzova, Ilze Filipova and Natalya Egorova took part in the training seminar for teachers of ORT from CIS and Baltic states, organized on the base of Jewish University in Jerusalem
July, 08 Mr. Guido Goldman visited the ORT de Gunzburg Centre
May, 23 Mrs. Marcy Wiseberg, the Women American ORT representative, visited the ORT-St. Petersburg Centre
May, 13 Mrs. Rachelle Lieberman, the Women American ORT representative, visited the ORT-St. Petersburg Centre
April, 4 - 6 With the support of the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre the seminar for representatives of JDC CIS logistic departments took place in the School # 550
March, 23 - 27 Tatyana Smurova and Olga Tuzova took part in the ORT seminar 'Video Technologies in Education'
January, 19 Federation (USA United Jewish Communities) Executives's mission visited Saint Petersburg
January, 19 Training seminar for school teams of Saint Petersburg - participants of forthcoming international competition of Logo robots is carried out in the School # 550 with the support of ORT-Petersburg Centre

2004 year
November, 17-18 Representatives of ORT Braude college (Israel) Roza Vered Azhari and Elena Shpigelman accompanied by Avi Ganon, ORT Russia Director, presented the program of technological education in Israel to the young people of Jewish organizations and schools of the city
November, 1-5 The seminar for heads of school teams participaited in the web-sites competition within the program 'Climate of Confidence' was carried out in the ORT-Petersburg Centre
October, 25 -
November, 5		 Within the ORT-JET project the seminar 'Internet Technologies and Web-design in Education' was carried out in the ORT-Petersburg Centre  
September, 29 Andrew Lovyagin, the deputy of Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg, visited the ORT de Gunzburg Centre and the School # 550.  
September, 20 A group of Jewish Community leaders from Cleveland (USA) headed by Mr. Larry Kadis visited the ORT de Gunzburg Centre and School #550.  
September, 1 The grand opening of two completely reequiped computer classes has taken place in the School # 550 (ORT-Gunzburg project). All new equipment is a gift of World ORT to the School to the beginning of new school year.  
August, 16-21 Teachers of the School # 550 Olga Tuzova and Vyacheslav Zhitomirsky, and also the project manager of ORT de Gunzburg Centre Tatyana Smurova have taken part in the ORT seminar in Kiev devoted to problems of computer design teaching.  
August, 20 Mr. and Mrs. Strobels visited the ORT de Gunzburg Centre  
July, 30 Mrs. Paula Murzin and Mr. Sy Berkowitz visited the ORT de Gunzburg Centre  
July, 13 UJC mission visited the School # 550 and the ORT de Gunzburg Centre  
June, 28 - July, 9 Within the ORT-JET project the two-weeks seminar "Organization and Technology of School Desk-Top Publishing" was carried out in the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre  
June, 25 Francois Perier, the direct descendant by Horace de Gunzburg, one of the ORT founder, visited the ORT-St.Petersburg Centre  
June, 18 The Michigan Jewish Community representatives visited the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre and the School # 550  
April - May English version of the methodical training appliance devoted to the ORT history was worked out in the ORT-Petersburg Centre  
April, 19 Caroline Levy, World ORT invited journalist, and Julia Levy, British ORT representative, visited the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre  
March, 22-26 Within the "ORT-JET" project "Information in Modern Education" seminar was carried out in the ORT-Gunzburg Centre  
March, 2 Maya Shapiro, the School # 550 student, was awarded with the Annual International purse named after Gina Harmatz  
February, 26 First distance lesson on video technologies for the School # 550 10th form students was carried out in the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre  
February, 24 Best ORT logotype competition was finished  
February, 5 The pedagogical mastery competition took place in the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre and School # 550  
January, 19-23 "Project Methods in School Education" seminar, organized for CIS ORT Centres and Schools specialists and teachers, took place in the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre

2003 year
December, 12-14 Marina Sorokina and Gregory Vodopyan took part in the seminar for leaders of the ORT centres and schools in CIS and Baltic States
November, 3-7 Tatyana Smurova and Denis Ushakov, the ORT-Petersburg collaborators, took part in the Video Technologies Problems Seminar in Moscow
October, 27 -
November, 6		 "Internet-technology and Web-design in Education" seminar within the ORT-JET project was caried out in the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre
October,12 Charles de Gunzburg, the Horace de Gunzburg ORT founder descendant, visited the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre
September, 22-25 Marina Sorokina and Gregory Vodopyan took part in the "New Generation of Information & Communication Technologies and New Pedagogy for School Change" international seminar, which was carried out in Concord (USA)
August, 18-29 Within the ORT-JET project the two-weeks seminar "Organization and Technology of School Desk-Top Publishing" was carried out in the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre
August, 25 Mark Kohen, the worldwide famous scientist and orientalist, visited the ORT-Gunzburg Centre
July, 17-18 Jackie Levine, the WAORT representative, visited the ORT-Gunzburg Centre
July, 11 The International Bike Ride participants visited the ORT-Gunzburg Centre
June, 30 - July, 4 «Internet in School» seminar took place in Odessa
June, 27 Lady Solti visited the ORT-Gunzburg, Saint Petersburg Centre
June, 26 The "Pre-Aliah" project first phase was finished
June, 9 Pnina Levermore, "Bay Area" Council Executive Director, Leonid Lvov, St Petersburg "Light Centre" Director, Valeriy Stolov, "Beit Sefer Menahem" School Principal, visited the ORT-Gunzburg, Saint Petersburg Centre
May, 26 Within the Saint Petersburg anniversary celebration "St.Petersburg Jewish Community. Three Centuries of History" computer album presentation was carried out on the City exhibition
May, 16 Mr. Darrel Krowitz, the ORT-South Africa Vice-Chairman, visited the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre
April, 10 «Information Technologies in a Modern School» seminar for the St.Petersburg Schools Principals  
April, 4 - 5 "Study Materials of New Generation" seminar within "System of Education Information" project participation  
March, 18 - 21 Within the ORT-JET Project the "Information in modern school" seminar was carried out in the ORT St. Petersburg Centre  
March, 4 Pre-Aliah Project  
February - March Translation to Russian the «Learning about the Holocaust through Art» web site has been completed in the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre  
February - March "St. Petersburg Jewish Community. Three Centuries of History." and "Jewish World in Postcards" were published at the World ORT support  

2002 year
December, 10 The "Jewish World in Postcards" CD-ROM, developed by ORT-Gunzburg, St. Petersburg, has become the "CONTENT-2002" laureate. It's the most authoritative competition of multimedia projects in Russia  
December, 2 Alina Tuzova, the School # 550 student, was awarded with the Annual International purse named after Gina Harmatz 
November, 4 - 15 Within the ORT-JET project "The Internet-tehnology and Web-design in Education" seminar was carried out in the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre 
October, 2 The ceremony of memorable plague opening devoted to the begining of Jewish St.Petersburg Community Centre building took place in Saint Petersburg 
September, 30 Guy Daniel Seniak visited the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre 
June, 24 - July, 5 Within the ORT-JET project the two-weeks seminar "Organization and Technology of School Desk-Top Publishing" was carried out in the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre. 
June, 5 Roger & Irith Browdy, the American ORT representatives, visited the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre 
May, 24 Graduating students of Jewish Schools were presented with valuable gifts by the ORT-St.Petersburg Centre 
May, 10 "Jewish World in Postcards" multimedia album project was launched with the first circulation of CD-ROMs. 
April, 21 The "St.Petersburg's Jewish community. Three centeries of history" computer album presentation in the Culture Centre of Israel in St.Petersburg  
April, 8-12 Within the ORT-JET project the one-week seminar "Information in modern school" was carried out in the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre. 
March, 18 "The history person of Tanah" game started. It was organized by the ORT-Saint-Petersburg Centre jointly with ORT-Samara. 
February The methodical training appliance devoted to the ORT history was worked out in the ORT-Petersburg Centre 
January, 8-18 The ORT-JET-BET seminar within the ORT-JET project was carried out in the ORT-Petersburg Centre