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At Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University, two new laboratories were inaugurated: ”Autonomous Electromechanical Systems for Electric Drive Mining Equipment” and ”Onboard Systems for BELAZ Machinery”.

The Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the United Republic of Tanzania to the Russian Federation, Mr. Frederick Ibrahim Kibuta, held a working meeting with the university’s rector, Vladimir Litvinenko.

From March 24 to 29, the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University will host the All-Russian Competition of Research Projects among high school students, ”School Premier League,” organized under the auspices of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO Affairs.

Its participants were high school students from St. Petersburg, Nizhnevartovsk, and Izluchinsk, who presented their prepared offshore hydrocarbon field development projects to experts.

A delegation from St. Petersburg Mining University is participating in the second youth forum, ”Oil Capital,” which kicked off today in Khanty-Mansiysk. Prior to the event, students and faculty members of the university familiarized themselves with the operations of several regional enterprises.

Indonesian student Irwan Zwageri successfully defended his specialist diploma project on a topic he chose after completing an internship in Rostov-on-Don at the company ”VIS-MOS.” The company specializes in building infrastructure for the development of oil, gas, and other natural resource deposits, utilizing a new method of trenchless pipeline installation and microtunneling. Irwan Zwageri shared his impressions of the internship with Forpost, discussing whether the language barrier or cultural differences posed any challenges for him.

St. Petersburg mining experts presented their vision for the development of artificial intelligence in both countries in Iran. Only ten days after the signing of the Interstate Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran, a distinguished group of scientists from the university in Russia’s northern capital traveled to Tehran to participate in the international conference ”Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Civilization”.

The former head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria and director of the G.O.R.K.I. Center at St. Petersburg State University, Karin Kneissl, conducted oral exams for students and postgraduate students of Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University. These exams were organized following a series of panel discussions, lectures, and round tables that students had been attending since the beginning of the academic year.

Throughout history, there have been instances where prominent scientists became widely known not for their primary scientific achievements but for minor, sometimes outright trivial, associations. For example, Nikolai Przhevalsky would likely be surprised to learn that more than a century later, his name is most commonly linked to the wild Asian horse he discovered, rather than to his numerous geographic and natural history discoveries, let alone his life’s work—exploring Central Asia. A similar situation befell the Soviet metallurgist Vyacheslav Lipin.

The old wintering complex at Vostok Station in Antarctica has completed its service after more than 40 years of operation. This historic site was the location where the first geophysical and meteorological observations near the Earth’s Southern Geomagnetic Pole began, the deepest ice core borehole was drilled, and the largest subglacial lake was discovered.