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India’s network of elite universities is known by the abbreviation IIT—Indian Institute of Technology.

Can one person be the author of the lyrics for the national anthems of three countries and one state? The answer to this riddle is simple—of course, he can, if he was born in the mid-19th century in West Bengal, became the first non-European Nobel laureate, and his name was Rabindranath Tagore.

The Rector of Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University, Vladimir Litvinenko, presented the results of the university’s second year of participation in the pilot project aimed at improving the national higher education system during a meeting of the Academic Council. The project was launched by a presidential decree on May 12, 2023.

The first newly commissioned Saint Petersburg metro station in the past five years has officially opened its doors. At 9:00 AM, the first train departed. Half an hour earlier, the opening ceremony took place in the presence of numerous media representatives. The event was attended by Governor of Saint Petersburg Alexander Beglov, Rector of Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University Vladimir Litvinenko, Chairman of the City Parliament Alexander Belsky, metro construction workers, and mining university students.

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.