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A Mongolian delegation led by the Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources, Gongor Damdinyam, visited the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University. The delegation included the leadership of the Russian representative office of the state-owned company ”Erdenes Mongol” and two of its subsidiaries: ”Erdenes Gaz,” which is responsible for the construction of the ”Power of Siberia” gas pipeline through the territory of Mongolia, and ”Erdenes UTP” (Industrial and Technological Parks of the Mining Industry).

The first three groups of students from Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University have returned from their internships in China and Ecuador, which took place from April 27 to May 12. These programs became the largest-scale in recent years, both in terms of the number of participants (59 students and instructors) and structural content. Two delegations visited the Chinese cities of Taiyuan and Xuzhou, while their colleagues traveled to Ecuador. For two weeks, the St.

Representatives of Algerian and Indonesian media outlets and internet channels visited Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University as part of a media tour aimed at attracting students from foreign nations to Russia.

During the period from April 29 to May 13, 2026, a delegation from Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University participated in the international short-term educational program for acquiring supplementary competencies titled ”Scientific and Technological Development in the Sphere of Energy Security,” hosted by Taiyuan University of Technology.

The delegation from Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University spent nearly two weeks in the PRC. The trip was organized by the International Competence Centre for Mining Engineering Education under the auspices of UNESCO as part of the Summer School program.

In late April and early May, a delegation of faculty members and students from Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University completed an industrial and academic internship at Taiyuan University of Technology and Shanxi University of Technology, as well as at various enterprises across the People’s Republic of China.

On Wednesday, May 20, on World Metrology Day, Sergey Gustov, Director General of OOO Gazprom Mezhregiongaz, presented Vladimir Litvinenko, Rector of Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University, with a symbolic key to a new training metrology laboratory dedicated to preparing specialists for the gas industry.

A delegation from Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University has returned from the Republic of Ecuador, where they participated for two weeks in the “International Engineering Practice 2026” educational program, conducted in a “summer school” format.

The Russian rating agency RAEX has published the new results of its subject-specific rankings of domestic higher education institutions. In 2026, Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University entered the top 5 across four distinct categories: first place in ”Petroleum Engineering,” third in ”Land Transport Engineering and Technologies,” and fifth in both ”Ecology” and ”Chemical Engineering.”

The third meeting of the Working Group on Education, Science, and Technology of the Joint Russia–Malaysia Commission on Economic, Scientific, Technical, and Cultural Cooperation was held at the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University. The meeting was opened by Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Airat Gatiyatov, and Secretary-General of the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia, Datuk Anesi Bin Ibrahim.