Science and technics

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.

A delegation from the Islamic World Science and Technology Citation and Monitoring Institute (ISC), headed by its President, Professor Mohammad Mehdi Alavianmehr, paid a working visit to Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University. The delegation brought a package of proposals to expand cooperation that began with the signing of a memorandum of understanding in July of last year.

A delegation of rectors from Cuba’s universities of Moa, Las Tunas, Oriente, and Holguín (named after Oscar Lucero Moya) paid a working visit to Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University. These four universities have well-developed engineering programs, and their rectors traveled 9,000 kilometers to begin the process of modernizing engineering education in the Island of Freedom based on the model of Russia’s oldest technical university.

A meeting was held within the walls of Russia’s oldest technical university to discuss the interim results and future prospects of the pilot project aimed at improving the higher education system, carried out in accordance with Presidential Decree of the Russian Federation No. 343 of May 12, 2023.

Global sales of cryogenic fuel, primarily liquefied natural gas (LNG), reached 5.2 billion US dollars in 2024. According to estimates by the consulting company Market-Research-Intellect, annual turnover will approach 10 billion by 2033. Most importantly, experts predict a “paradigm shift” in the market: technological advances and changing consumer preferences will give a powerful impetus to this type of motor fuel.

At one time, river transport ceded its primacy to railways. Today, the fastest growth is seen in road transportation, which leads in terms of total freight volume. The quality and extent of road networks have long been among the key indicators of economic development for both countries and individual regions.

The “Summer Schools” project for partner universities — primarily international — has been implemented by Russia’s oldest technical university since 2018. This summer, it brought together a record number of participants. More than 2,000 students and postgraduate researchers are taking part in the educational program in the city on the Neva, including participants from Donbas, Belarus, China, India, Iran, and several countries across Africa and Latin America.

“Theory without practice is dead, practice without theory is blind.” These words belong to Alexander Suvorov and are hard to dispute. Nevertheless, the Bologna Process, implemented in Russia since the late 20th century and replacing the Soviet education system, came quite close to this imbalance. The transition to a two-tier system of “bachelor’s – master’s” degrees and the significant reduction of specialist programs nearly dismantled the country’s engineering training framework.

According to expert forecasts, the global market for digital solutions in the mining industry is expected to nearly double by 2030, reaching approximately 20 billion USD annually. In Russia, the digitalization of mining enterprises is advancing even more rapidly — by 2024, the market had reached nearly 40 billion rubles, compared to just 10 billion in 2022.

The exhibition of the Mining Museum features minerals and chemical compounds from nearly every region of the planet, including some of the most remote locations. However, certain specimens were produced just steps away from the museum halls — in the laboratories of Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University. One such example is yttrium oxide, which was donated to the museum by the staff of the Department of General and Physical Chemistry.