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The Nedra University Consortium

Developing a joint position on the efficient use of natural resources and the development of higher education.

Consolidated influence on public authorities.

Interdisciplinary association and joint scientific research.

Joint use of laboratories and other university facilities.

Academic mobility development.

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NSTU Creates a Device for ’Smart Diagnostics’ of Electrical Equipment

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Unlike analogues, it not only signals a malfunction but also determines its cause.

MGRI Becomes a Green University

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It also hit the Top 40 Russian higher educational institutions according to the UI GreenMetric University Ranking.

St. Petersburg Mining University helped builders improve the safety of infill development

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A new computer modeling technology allows to more accurately predict the impact of earthworks on nearby buildings.

SPbU Find May Lead to Discovering Gold in Kyrgyzstan

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The Tien Shan mountain ranges are revealed to hold ancient rock formations possibly containing non-ferrous metal ores.

Samara Polytech Creates a ’Mechanical Monster’ for Geophysical Research

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The machine recreates the physical parameters of a rock deposit in a lab environment. It analyses rock hardness, ductility, plasticity, and other mechanical characteristics.

Mining University scientist talks about research in hydrogen transportation

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Georgy Buslaev, head of the Green Energy section of the Arctic Competence Center, took part in an online meeting of the working group on hydrogen created as part of the Russian-German Feedstock Forum. He spoke at the session "System Concepts", where scientific problems related to the creation of an integrated value chain from the production of the lightest gas in nature to its shipment to the consumer were discussed.

KuzSTU’s Researchers Elaborated a Reusable Technology for Cleaning up Oil Spills

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A sorbent researchers from Kemerovo came up with can be used in the least favourable climatic conditions - for instance, in the Arctic.

Scientists at St. Petersburg Mining University have found a way to reduce the cost of winter ship fuel by a quarter

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The savings are achieved due to an innovative additive developed by the university.

KuzSTU Helped Innovate Open-Pit Coal Mining

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This development allows deposits not to have external dumps.

Bashkir State University to Rid the Country of Oil Waste Lakes

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The new innovative solution may become a viable part of the oil refining process.

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Why Gazprom neft spent $50 billion on a delayed coking unit

Газпром нефть

Gazprom Neft announced the completion of another commissioning stage of the delayed coking unit at the Omsk Refinery. Behind this seemingly insignificant news is a real technological breakthrough. Russia is about to start producing needle coke, which is in great demand from metallurgical companies and which used to be supplied to our plants only from abroad. Forpost decided to find out whether this project is that important for the national economy and whether one of the flagships of the oil and gas industry will be able to get back the 50 billion rubles invested in it.

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Rector of Gubkin University: Distance Learning Is a Format to Communicate Knowledge Not Skills

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According to Viktor Martynov, one can acquire industry-specific skills - especially those involving multitasking - only through contact learning.

Rector of MISiS: There Is a Growing Interest in Engineering Education in Russia

МИСиС

As distance learning has abruptly become widespread in all of Russia, many new questions arise. Have domestic universities adjusted to the remote format of teaching? What would be the route forward for our higher school? What professions are in most demand among today's undergraduate applicants?

What Do University Graduates Need to Build Successful Careers?

УГНТУ

In an interview to Forpost, Oleg Baulin, Rector of Ufa State Petroleum Technological University (USPTU), explains whether distance learning can replace contact study sessions and what competencies employers require from fresh graduates, aside from the field-specific knowledge and skills.

Rector of South Ural State University on the Advantages of Russian Education

ЮУрГУ

In an interview to Forpost, Aleksandr Shestakov, Rector of South Ural State University (SUSU), speaks on the drawbacks of higher school in comparison to the Soviet system. He also mentions areas in which Russia is lagging behind foreign universities and areas in which our country manages to outstrip them.

I’m Going to Be a Shipbuilder. Let Them Teach Me

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In an interview to Forpost, Gleb Turichin, Rector of the Marine Technical University, spoke about how to prevent the engineering education from degradation, when Russian universities will meet employers' requirements, and why so far no one can take our country's institutions for PhD studies seriously.

Alexander Yakovenko Says the Coronavirus Pandemic Will End Up in Economic Recession

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Ex-ambassador of Russia to the UK talked on the pandemic's consequences and said how to deal with them.

Vladimir Litvinenko: our energy sector is in need of urgent rehabilitation

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One of the focal points of the meeting of the Public Council of the Ministry of Energy was the statement of the rector of St. Petersburg Mining University about the need to strengthen centralized regulation of the fuel and energy complex by the Government of the Russian Federation. A number of media outlets even interpreted his words as a proposal to “create a mega-regulator” in the fuel and energy complex. Forpost reached out to Vladimir Litvinenko for comment.

Why does Siberian Federal University need the Nedra Consortium

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In November 2020, the Siberian Federal University joined the Nedra Consortium of technical universities. In an interview with Forpost.ru, its rector Maxim Rumyantsev spoke about the benefits that the association would bring directly to students, why the national higher school today is so concerned with the issue of competitiveness, and why engineering universities in the regions do not switch to a remote format of education.

Technical Universities of Russia formed a Nedra Сonsortium

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Its task will be to improve the quality of higher education and scientific research aimed at increasing the efficiency of enterprises in the mineral resources sector.

How Armenia Remits The Prestige of Engineering Education

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When it comes to this country, then, along with its ancient history and the biblical Mount Ararat, first of all comes to mind the world-famous cognac and the love of the nation for chess. However, first of all, Armenia has an exceptionally strong higher school.

Citation one, citation two, that’ll make a Hirsch index. What’s wrong with our research articles

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For decades, the domestic academic community has been trying to rapidly increase its scientometric indicators, primarily the citation rate of articles. However, we have not been able to achieve any tangible success although the number of publications in journals indexed by the leading scientific Internet search platforms Scopus and Web of Science has doubled in ten years. In 2009, the country issued 65,000 articles to the world; in 2019, it is almost 137,000.

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Why domestic university rankings only harm higher education

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The ranking agency RAEX-Analytics has completed the collection of data for the subject ranking of Russian universities in various areas of training. Does this mean that the country will finally have an objective chart, which will allow applicants to choose the best development paradigm for themselves?

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The Tchaikovskys: Family of Engineers Except for Pyotr Ilyich

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In 2020, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky became the top trending Russian musician outside the country. A billboard with an image of his was erected right in central New York, on Times Square. Yet notwithstanding the international recognition of the composer's music, the Tchaikovskys are also known for having had connections with another industry, traditionally the key one for Rusia's economy.

Intrigues of diamond discoverers, or who was the first to find the “Mir”

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In the summer of 1955, three geologists of the Amakinskaya expedition sent a secret radiogram to their superiors: "We smoked a peace pipe, the tobacco is excellent. Avdeyenko, Elagina, Khabardin". According to the official version, they are considered the discoverers of one of the largest primary diamond deposits in Russia... But there are still disputes about the authorship of the discovery.

How the faceted cylinder made a Russian scientist world-famous

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“The Slavyanov cylinder” in 1893 at the world exhibition in Chicago received a gold medal with the wording: “For the technical revolution produced.” His photographs, accompanying the relevant news, appeared in many newspapers in Europe and the United States. What kind of scientific breakthrough was he talking about?

How to become the director of the Mining Institute?

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Under the forge of the Motovilikhinskie Armories lies an iron slab of truly gigantic proportions. A century and a half ago, the 650-ton anvil, as part of the Tsar-Hammer, was recognized as a world treasure at the Vienna Industrial Exhibition. What was the effort behind this casting, unique in the history of metallurgy, and why is the invention resting deep underground today?

How Pavel Anosov quenched the steel and obtained gold from sand

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The legendary metallurgist Pavel Anosov became world famous as the father of Russian damask steel, when he had managed to reproduce high-quality steel, whose recipe was lost in the Middle Ages. By his research, he also increased the extraction of gold from metal-containing sands by 28 times compared to conventional washing. Why was the scientist suspended from mining then, and the experiments were immediately blocked?

Golden names of Russia: Nikolay Voskoboinikov

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The first exploration well for oil is traditionally attributed to the Americans. They have devoted more than one film to the search for "black gold", cementing this stereotype. However, 20 years before the famous Pennsylvania discovery of Edwin Drake, a Russian geologist began to develop a project to extract raw materials by drilling.

Golden names of Russia: Petr Freze - the creator of the electric car

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The name of this inventor and engineer is associated with the appearance of the first Russian car, firefighting vehicle, trolleybus and omnibus. But what is especially surprising is that then, back in 1900, he demonstrated a super-fashionable vehicle even by today’s standards.

The revolutionary who became the foremost Russian crystallograph

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All of St. Petersburg knew the story of the escape from prison of the anarchist theorist Pyotr Kropotkin. People were telling it again and again as an action-packed novel, adding to the story and thinking out the details. One of the participants of the adventure was young Evgraf Fedorov, the man, whose scientific accomplishments in the field of crystallography today are compared with the periodic system of Mendeleyev.

The mechanic who influenced the fate of Russia

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Russian metallurgical companies invest in their modernization on average 200 billion rubles annually. How could a scientist in the 19th century manage to successfully introduce foreign innovations into the industry with a minimum budget?

The man who made miners’ safety a science

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Exports of Russian coal to Asia-Pacific region will increase 2.5 times: from 100 million tons in 2018 to 252 million tons in 2035. This forecast was recently given by the head of the Ministry of Energy Alexander Novak. However, the growth of production is unthinkable without constant work to improve safety in the quarries and mines.

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Germany wants to produce hydrogen from Russian gas

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The German energy agency Dena called the proposal of Russian colleagues to build a pilot plant at the Nord Stream exit point to produce the lightest gas in nature by pyrolysis of methane a “great idea.” It is planned to be used in power engineering and transport: it is known that since recently, H2 is considered in Europe as one of the tools to achieve carbon neutrality. However, according to scientists, first, it is necessary to build a test site and carefully study the entire technological chain. Otherwise, such projects may turn out to be unprofitable and unsafe.

The Tchaikovskys: Family of Engineers Except for Pyotr Ilyich

чайковский

In 2020, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky became the top trending Russian musician outside the country. A billboard with an image of his was erected right in central New York, on Times Square. Yet notwithstanding the international recognition of the composer's music, the Tchaikovskys are also known for having had connections with another industry, traditionally the key one for Rusia's economy.

Rector of Gubkin University: Distance Learning Is a Format to Communicate Knowledge Not Skills

Мартынов

According to Viktor Martynov, one can acquire industry-specific skills - especially those involving multitasking - only through contact learning.

Intrigues of diamond discoverers, or who was the first to find the “Mir”

мир

In the summer of 1955, three geologists of the Amakinskaya expedition sent a secret radiogram to their superiors: "We smoked a peace pipe, the tobacco is excellent. Avdeyenko, Elagina, Khabardin". According to the official version, they are considered the discoverers of one of the largest primary diamond deposits in Russia... But there are still disputes about the authorship of the discovery.

China laughed at Europe’s call to give up hydrocarbons

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At the end of January, the concept of so-called climate diplomacy was approved in Brussels. From now on, the European Union will not only develop green energy on its territory but also insist that the rest of the world also intensify this process. The EU plans to force Asian and African states to abandon hydrocarbons, in particular, by reducing investment in their production and processing.

Why Gazprom neft spent $50 billion on a delayed coking unit

Газпром нефть

Gazprom Neft announced the completion of another commissioning stage of the delayed coking unit at the Omsk Refinery. Behind this seemingly insignificant news is a real technological breakthrough. Russia is about to start producing needle coke, which is in great demand from metallurgical companies and which used to be supplied to our plants only from abroad. Forpost decided to find out whether this project is that important for the national economy and whether one of the flagships of the oil and gas industry will be able to get back the 50 billion rubles invested in it.

Rector of MISiS: There Is a Growing Interest in Engineering Education in Russia

МИСиС

As distance learning has abruptly become widespread in all of Russia, many new questions arise. Have domestic universities adjusted to the remote format of teaching? What would be the route forward for our higher school? What professions are in most demand among today's undergraduate applicants?

What Do University Graduates Need to Build Successful Careers?

УГНТУ

In an interview to Forpost, Oleg Baulin, Rector of Ufa State Petroleum Technological University (USPTU), explains whether distance learning can replace contact study sessions and what competencies employers require from fresh graduates, aside from the field-specific knowledge and skills.

Citation one, citation two, that’ll make a Hirsch index. What’s wrong with our research articles

коллаж_научные_журналы_1_06022021

For decades, the domestic academic community has been trying to rapidly increase its scientometric indicators, primarily the citation rate of articles. However, we have not been able to achieve any tangible success although the number of publications in journals indexed by the leading scientific Internet search platforms Scopus and Web of Science has doubled in ten years. In 2009, the country issued 65,000 articles to the world; in 2019, it is almost 137,000.

Why domestic university rankings only harm higher education

RAEX

The ranking agency RAEX-Analytics has completed the collection of data for the subject ranking of Russian universities in various areas of training. Does this mean that the country will finally have an objective chart, which will allow applicants to choose the best development paradigm for themselves?

History of Flint

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Two million years ago, human ancestors hardly had any idea what the term 'evolution' stands for. Back then, their primary source of help was by appearance grey and a somewhat mediocre stone.

Rector of South Ural State University on the Advantages of Russian Education

ЮУрГУ

In an interview to Forpost, Aleksandr Shestakov, Rector of South Ural State University (SUSU), speaks on the drawbacks of higher school in comparison to the Soviet system. He also mentions areas in which Russia is lagging behind foreign universities and areas in which our country manages to outstrip them.

I’m Going to Be a Shipbuilder. Let Them Teach Me

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In an interview to Forpost, Gleb Turichin, Rector of the Marine Technical University, spoke about how to prevent the engineering education from degradation, when Russian universities will meet employers' requirements, and why so far no one can take our country's institutions for PhD studies seriously.

Caterpillar. Driverless cars are already a reality

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Some time later, the Belarusian BELAZ Company also announced the creation of robotic dump trucks. They were sent to the Chernogorsky coal mine in the Republic of Khakassia, where the SUEK Company operates.

Dicaprio and Biden set out to lead humanity away from the “cliff edge”

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Natalie Portman, and about 150 other actors, politicians, and businessmen signed an open letter to Joe Biden. They said that civilization today is “on the edge of a cliff” and urged the new U.S. president to do everything possible to reduce carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere.

He Who Became the First Rector of Mining University

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The first higher technical university in Russia was established by a decree of Empress Catherine the Great, following a request with which a mining entrepreneur from the Ural addressed her. But who was the person who established and headed the educational institution? A famous son of a famous father he was.

How to save money on the environment

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Russia's first Aframax-class medium-tonnage tanker “Vladimir Monomakh” has completed its sea trials and set sail heading for South Africa, where it is to deliver the oil loaded in its hold at the port of Nakhodka.

Science and technics

Why our detonators are popular in Europe

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In 2020, for the first time in Finnish history, a mass explosion was carried out without the use of TNT and dynamite. It was loaded exclusively with Russian-made cartridges and detonators. The head of the department for new projects at Azot-Blast, the largest company in Russia and the CIS for the production of drilling and blasting agents, talked about what radical changes have taken place in the industry and how to build a successful career today.

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