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The Malaysian Minister of Higher Education, Zamri Abdul Qadir, delivered a lecture titled ’Creating the Future Together: Cooperation Between Malaysia and Russia in Higher Education and Innovation’ at Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University. In addition to students and postgraduates from the country’s oldest technical university, young men and women from five other universities in the city—LETI, SPbSU, HSE, Polytechnic, and Marine Technical University—were present in the audience.

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In mid-October, shortly before the BRICS summit in Kazan, the International Forum-Competition for Young Researchers from BRICS countries, ”Current Issues in Subsoil Use,” will take place at Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University.

At the end of October, the oldest technical university in Russia will host the international forum ”Mineral Resources as the Basis of National Sovereignty – Workforce and Innovation Environment.” It will serve as a natural continuation of the agenda of the Russia-Africa summits held in 2019 and 2023, and a key milestone event in the work of the university consortium ”Africa’s Subsoil,” created at the initiative of Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University and the Competence Center for Mining Education under the auspices of UNESCO.

A panel discussion on the influence of the insurance market on the process of strengthening Russia’s technological sovereignty was held at Mining University.

Ректор Санкт-Петербургского горного университета императрицы Екатерины II Владимир Литвиненко провёл серию встреч со студентами и аспирантами вуза

The ”Resonance” team of the Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University of Empress took third place at the university hackathon organized by Gazprom, which was finalised in Ufa. The task of its participants was to develop a data converter for geophysical well surveys. In other words, a program that could take files with logging information collected over a long time and not meet the uniform requirements to modern standards, as well as upload them to a centralized repository with a user-friendly interface.

Exactly two hundred years ago, in 1824, Yegor Karneev was appointed as the director of the Mining Cadet Corps and the Department of Mining and Salt Affairs, which was the main government department responsible for managing the mining industry and state-owned mines and smelting plants. Interestingly, although he was not an expert in metallurgy, geology, or mining, the years under his leadership are considered to be among the most successful for the Mining Institut

The past academic year at St. Petersburg Mining University, which is currently implementing a pilot project to improve the system of engineering education according to the decree of the President of Russia, has aroused great interest among academics.

No technical university in the Russian Empire or the USSR produced as many writers, prose authors and poets as St. Petersburg Mining University did.