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The student team of Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University won the “Best Well Management” category at the PetroCup International Student Oil and Gas Olympiad (Northern Eurasia League). In the overall standings, the university placed second. The top three also included ITMO University and Saint Petersburg State University.

”Africa is currently in active search of social institutions that would take responsibility for the urgently needed accelerated industrial and social development,” — this is how the new article by Vladimir Litvinenko, Rector of Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University, begins on RIA Novosti. The author writes that the continent, which is the most promising in terms of natural resources, can no longer afford to continue the zero-sum game imposed by Western corporations. Therefore, it is turning its focus toward Russia.

The results of a joint study by scientists from the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University and Shiraz University (Iran) were published in a special issue of the ”Journal of Mining Institute” (Zapiski Gornogo instituta) on the topic of digital transformation at energy, oil and gas, and mining and metallurgical enterprises.

The results of the joint research by scientists of Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University, Saint Petersburg, Russia and Department of Petroleum Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran have been published in International Journal of Engineering. It is published by the Materials and Energy Research Center (Iran).

Research results in the field of improving the efficiency of needle coke production have been published in the authoritative scientific journal International Journal Of Engineering. It is published by the Materials and Energy Research Center (Iran).

The research of Seyyed Shahab Tabatabaee Moradi, an associate professor at Sahand University of Technology (Tabriz, Iran), has been published in the Journal of Mining Institute.

One of the most significant events this autumn will be the Russia–Africa Raw Materials Dialogue, which will take place in Saint Petersburg from October 29 to November 1, 2025. The event will bring together leaders of sectoral ministries, representatives of the scientific and educational community, and business figures from both the Russian Federation and African nations. As of today, delegations from 27 African countries have confirmed their participation.

On September 1, Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University launched an educational program for representatives of African countries entitled “Management of Subsoil Use Facilities.” International internships and short-term courses are not new for this resource-focused university, yet this project is unlike any of its predecessors.

On Friday, August 1, Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University held the closing ceremony of the Summer Schools, organized in collaboration with the International Competence Centre for Mining Engineering Education under the auspices of UNESCO. Since May, participants have been engaged in educational programs specially designed by faculty from Russia’s oldest technical university. Each session lasted two weeks.

The 16th General Conference of the Association of African Universities was held from July 19 to 25, 2025, at the main campus of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Rabat, Morocco.