Science and technics

Khazret Sovmen, former head of the Republic of Adygeya, has allocated personal funds for 62 grants for young scientists of the St. Petersburg Mining University. What kind of research will this money be used for and why would the well-known philanthropist, the founder of one of the world’s largest mining companies, Polyus, finance university science?

A digital modeling software complex began operating at St. Petersburg Mining University. This is a high-performance computing cluster, which allowed the university’s scientists to take their research to a fundamentally different level. Forpost found out what opportunities have opened up for them after the new laboratories were put into operation, and why the status of scientific organizations in the modern world largely depends on the availability of such platforms.

The association of engineering universities is becoming the largest in Russia. On Thursday, December 24, at the online meeting of the Nedra Consortium of Universities, 25 more universities joined. Today the Consortium already has 50 members.

This going away year was significantly more difficult than the previous one, especially because of the coronavirus, but the university managed to improve all of its key performance indicators. On Friday, December 25, the University’s Academic Council held its final meeting of 2020. The main issue on the agenda was Rector Vladimir Litvinenko’s report on the main results of the year.

The hearing of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Court of Arbitration on the case of the fuel spill in Norilsk has been postponed once again, this time, until December 24. It is not yet clear what the verdict of the judges will be and when it will be announced, but according to Rospotrebnadzor, the damage caused to the environment as a result of this accident amounts to 148 billion rubles.

The most well-known reference to windmills dates back to 1604 when the first part of the novel ’The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha’ was published.

They presented their developments to the judgment of experts from major Russian and foreign companies, such as GEOTECH Seismic, SIBUR, PhosAgro, and Schneider Electric.

Rosneft announced the start of commercial operation of unique hydro treatment catalysts of its own production. They are needed to produce ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuels from crude oil. This seemingly insignificant event puts out of sight a real breakthrough, which may contribute to solving several strategic tasks right away. Among those is reduction of the volume of harmful emissions from vehicle tailpipes and dramatic increase in Russia’s energy security. Forpost found out how realistic this is.

The International Competence Center in Mining Engineering Education under the auspices of UNESCO is holding a large-scale youth forum.

This November, the Mining Museum, St. Petersburg, informed of having for the first time ever determined the detailed chemical composition of 19th-century steel blades. The two-century-old swords were either brought from Tiflis or manufactured at the worldwide known Zlatoust Plant.