Science and technics

Composite material development would be effective on a mass-production scale

Gubkin researchers have come up with an alternative to toxic alcohols, methanol, and mono-ethylene glycol, traditionally used as hydrate inhibitors.

A multi-unit modular wind farm can supply 100% of the needed electricity to detached houses and agricultural facilities that are not powered from the national grid.

A list of the most active scientific organisations, amongst those preferring electronic interaction when registering their inventions and utility models at Rospatent, has been revealed.

High iron content in Siberian groundwater allows large-scale production of inexpensive catalysts to enhance oil recovery in the fields.

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.

Akademik Fedorov vessel, with the first group of polar expedition members on board, has left the port of St. Petersburg and is heading for the shores of the ”White Continent”

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

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