Science and technics

Ilshat Gafurov talks about the most in-demand specialities and educational programmes, the challenge of moving from the research stage to innovation, individual educational trajectories, amongst many other things.

This season, the maximum number of scientists since Soviet times - 12 people, seven of whom represent St. Petersburg Mining University - will go to the Russian research station Vostok, located on the White Continent. Forpost asked the university’s rector Vladimir Litvinenko to tell what tasks the polar explorers face and explain whether the research in the coldest place on Earth can help mankind reduce its carbon footprint.

Amongst these tasks is obtaining new fundamental scientific knowledge in geodynamics, geothermics, hydrogen genesis

Senior students spend nine months ’studying on the job’.

Saint Petersburg’s Committee for Science and Higher Education has announced the winners of the grant competition for 2021 amongst graduate and postgraduate students.

Hydraulic fracturing method to become more economical and eco-friendly

The proposed structural system allows for doubling the construction speed and reducing labour costs by 20–24%, SPbGASU Press Office informs.

Молодые учёные, поступившие в аспирантуру Санкт-Петербургского горного университета в нынешнем году, начали своё обучение с двухнедельного научно-образовательного курса «Базовые компетенции аспиранта».

Some 170 years ago, whilst Great Britain and France – the leading Western-European powers – had already made it through the Industrial Revolution, Russia was seriously lagging behind. The ruling elite, still living the memories of the early-19th-century military victories, could not grasp the actual size of the gap. Driven by their illusions of the invincibility of the army and navy, they let the country lose the Crimean War. The defeat, however, forced the government and Emperor Alexander II himself, coronated in 1856, to look into retooling and upgrading the structure of the military industry. The Russian Empire’s best engineers and scientists were assigned to this task.

The winners of the research leadership competition were 18 Russian universities.