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Mining University presents another summer school programme: Innovations and Development Prospects of Mining Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.

As a part of the Russian-British Raw Materials Dialogue, a business session was held in Saint-Petersburg Mining University. Executives and specialists from both countries attended the meeting to participate in a discussion mainly relating to future outlook for trade and investment cooperation between our countries.

Next programme in our series of articles about Summer schools in the Mining University is “Geological Tour around the Mountainous Crimea”.

With each year, more and more foreigners choose to commence their studies in Russia. What are the reasons, though? What professions are of the greatest interest to the future students?

This summer Saint-Petersburg Mining University, the oldest higher technical institution in Russia, will once again open its doors for international students

No atomic bombs or long-range missiles are required to destruct a nation, but a reduction of the education quality and a given permission on cheating at exams for students

Five post-graduate students from Saint-Petersburg Mining University were awarded with prizes for steel industry participants at Saarland in Germany. The ceremony took place in Potsdam as a part of the XI Russian-German Raw Materials Dialogue, which came to its end on the 8th of November.

Improving the subject rankings system in the universities is an important issue and the matter of interest for the management of mineral and energy companies. These are the words of Valery Yazev, the President of the Voluntary Association ”Russian Miners”, following the signing of an agreement with Quacquarelli Symonds.

The agreement between the government of the Russian Federation and the UN on the establishment of the International Center of Competence in Mining Education was ratified by the State Duma on October 18.

Students of Lanzhou University of Technology came to the Mining University this summer as interns of the International Summer School. After having finished their education upon the programme ”Innovations and development prospects of mechanical and electrical engineering”, they shared the impressions of their stay in Russia.