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Hydraulic fracturing method to become more economical and eco-friendly
What would be the reason for Russian students to leave for Europe and America to study?
The proposed structural system allows for doubling the construction speed and reducing labour costs by 20–24%, SPbGASU Press Office informs.
Солнечное
Молодые учёные, поступившие в аспирантуру Санкт-Петербургского горного университета в нынешнем году, начали своё обучение с двухнедельного научно-образовательного курса «Базовые компетенции аспиранта».
Крымская война
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.
Антарктида
January 2020 marks 200 years since Russian sailors discovered Antarctica. What secrets are buried deep below the continent, and why its ice shield is of such interest to scientists studying climate change processes?
The evaluated capital cost of the technology is about 120–125 k$ (as opposed to 300 k$ using the existing method), the payback period is not more than one year.
The Rector of St. Petersburg Mining University pointed that the Far North, especially the continental shelf, ”has a huge potential”.
белаз
Delegation of BELAZ company paid a working visit to Mining University.