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If it was not for the invention of the Mining Institute’s Professor, the fate of Leningrad could have been a lot more tragic

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This September marks the 78th anniversary from the day the siege of Leningrad started (Leningrad is a former name of Saint-Petersburg, commonly used throughout the Soviet period or, more precisely, from 1924 till 1991). During that time, up to 1.5 million people were presumably killed - more than nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused, if combined.
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The Korkinsky coal mine. The most ecologically dirty place in Russia.

Коркинский разрез
The Korkinsky open-pit coal mine was named as one of the most heartbreaking examples of technological environmental impact in our country.
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An agreement on scientific cooperation between Saint-Petersburg Mining University and LUT University was signed on the day of Putin’s visit to Finland

Литвиненко и Сакса
LUT University is now the key partner university in Finland for the International Competence Centre for Mining-Engineering Education under the auspices of UNESCO.
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The Unlucky Stone

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Beauty is power. Surprisingly, the same statement may be applied with success to the world of minerals. At all times, people were ready to do a lot to gain natural wealth. Thus, to get their hands on one of the most beautiful gems on the planet, people were killing, betraying and plotting against each other at the state-level scale.
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Summer schools are becoming increasingly popular among Chinese students

летние школы
Students of Lanzhou University of Technology came to the Mining University to participate in the International Summer School, named ”Modern Energy Technologies”. Last summer, both undergraduate and postgraduate students from Chinese university took training within exactly the same programme. Upon finishing their internship, they admitted being impressed by Saint-Petersburg as well as by the studies themselves. This year, three groups of students - over a hundred people - participated in the programme.
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Polish students want to study in Saint-Petersburg despite the global Russophobia

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It has been a second year in a row for students of the AGH University of Science and Technology (Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie) at the Mining University. For the second time as well, they have chosen the two week-long international summer school programme "Modern Technologies of Drilling Wells, Transport and Storage of Oil & Gas."
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Summer School: Vietnamese and Chinese students have come to learn more about Russian experience in coal mining

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Students from Hanoi University in Vietnam and Taiyuan University of Technology (TUT) in China came to the Mining University to participate in the International Summer School programme, named "Underground Coal Mining”.
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Lebanese students are hoping for Summer Schools to become a tradition

летняя школа
Students of the Lebanese International University came to Saint-Petersburg to participate in the summer school program of the Mining University, called "Geodetic Engineering: Theory and Practice". On the completion of the education, they shared their impressions and explained why they decided to be trained here for a second year in a row.
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Summer School: Italian students want to come back to Saint-Petersburg again

летние школы
Students of the faculty of political science at the University of Bologna went through training at the International Summer School in the Mining University. Italian students came to St. Petersburg to gain new knowledge and participate in the summer school program named "Social-political Conflicts of Modern Society".
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270,000 RUR (circa 4,300 USD) turns out to be not high enough to attract Russian youngsters to move to the Arctic

Арктика
More than half of the students of technical universities would not want to work inside the Arctic circle regardless of the circumstances. Meanwhile, the local population is rapidly declining. Can something be done about it?
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