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The QS World University Ranking by Subject 2025, published by the British ranking agency QS, has been released. Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University has entered the top five universities worldwide in its core discipline, ”Engineering - Mineral & Mining Engineering,” securing 4th place. Additionally, in the ”Engineering - Petroleum Engineering” category, it ranked among the top 100 universities globally. This marks the best result among all Russian universities this year.

Few people in Russia have heard of the provincial Indian city of Dhanbad or about the country’s new national philosophy—”Make in India”. In essence, this is similar to our work on import substitution, but on a vastly different scale. Here, the goal is not just to abandon Western technologies but to first study them and then surpass them. The objective is to make India self-sufficient in everything—from consumer goods to artificial intelligence in both industry and everyday life. In other words, India’s sovereignty is the republic’s primary concern.

India’s network of elite universities is known by the abbreviation IIT—Indian Institute of Technology.

Can one person be the author of the lyrics for the national anthems of three countries and one state? The answer to this riddle is simple—of course, he can, if he was born in the mid-19th century in West Bengal, became the first non-European Nobel laureate, and his name was Rabindranath Tagore.

At Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University, two new laboratories were inaugurated: ”Autonomous Electromechanical Systems for Electric Drive Mining Equipment” and ”Onboard Systems for BELAZ Machinery”.

The Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the United Republic of Tanzania to the Russian Federation, Mr. Frederick Ibrahim Kibuta, held a working meeting with the university’s rector, Vladimir Litvinenko.

From March 24 to 29, the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University will host the All-Russian Competition of Research Projects among high school students, ”School Premier League,” organized under the auspices of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO Affairs.

Is it possible to increase gold production? Or are we facing a metal shortage and, consequently, a rapid rise in its value?

Its participants stated that the remote format for presenting scientific research proved to be highly effective.

Its participants were high school students from St. Petersburg, Nizhnevartovsk, and Izluchinsk, who presented their prepared offshore hydrocarbon field development projects to experts.