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The President of Russia has wished the faculty, staff, students, postgraduates and graduates of Russia’s first technical university success and all the best. On Tuesday, October 31, Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory telegram to the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University, which will celebrate its 250th anniversary tomorrow.

He noted that without co-operation it is impossible to improve competitiveness in the international arena, to solve the problem of training personnel for high-tech mineral and raw materials complex and to increase the share of scientific and technical component in the educational process.

The Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug will develop professional standards for the industry, as well as mechanisms for effective implementation of innovations at mining and processing enterprises.

On the 319th anniversary of the founding of the city on the Neva, a delegation of Ambassadors of Latin America came to the St. Petersburg Mining University on a working visit.

The International Autumn School ”Modern Mining Technologies” has come to an end at the St. Petersburg Mining University, where 70 students and teachers from the Chinese University of Mining Engineering and Technology (CUMT) improved their profile competences. The friendly country is eager to adopt Russia’s rich experience in mining.

In March 2023, the heads of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China met, resulting in a joint statement by the presidents on ”deepening relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation entering a new era.” The key areas of co-operation included education and science as the basis for the dynamic development of any state. In particular, the parties agreed to encourage inter-university cooperation, support the activities of Russian-Chinese profile associations of universities, and promote joint educational institutions and programmes.

The international internship programme of four graduate students from the People’s Republic of China at St. Petersburg Mining University has come to an end. All of them successfully defended their graduate theses and returned to their homeland. On the eve of their departure, Forpost asked the guests of the city on the Neva what expectations they had a year ago about studying at Russia’s oldest technical university and how much reality justified them.

The South African city of Gkeberha hosted the Young Scientists Forum, which included the sixth BRICS Young Innovators Competition. A total of 20 applicants from five countries - Russia, China, Brazil, South Africa and India - were selected to take part in the intellectual competition. One of them was Alexandra Buldysko, a postgraduate student of the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University.

Ambassador of India to Russia Pavan Kapoor paid a working visit to the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University. He donated more than 50 books on the culture, religion, art and language of his country to the university, and discussed with Rector Vladimir Litvinenko the prospects of cooperation between the two countries in the field of science and education.

Among the most promising areas include cooperation in science and technology, as well as increasing academic mobility. On Friday, July 7, it became known that President of Imam Hussein University Mohammad Reza Hasani paid a working visit to the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University. During the meeting with Rector Vladimir Litvinenko, he told about the current research conducted by the scientists of the Iranian university and presented his vision of the prospects of cooperation between the two institutions of higher education.