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Its distinctive feature will be that for the first time in 20 years, the number of first-year students studying at the speciality level will be higher than at the bachelor level.

As it was specified in the university rectorate, this year 500 new studios will be put into operation for students, postgraduates and teachers. All of them are built in accordance with the concept, which absorbed all the best solutions that exist in the world. Forpost decided to find out in what conditions students of the oldest higher technical education institution in Russia live today, how much they pay for a place and what are similar international standards.

Often foreigners who receive higher education in Russia undergo practical training in companies in their native countries, where they intend to work later on. Strange as it may seem, it is much easier for them to organize such a trip than to get a job at a Russian enterprise. However, a student of the St. Petersburg Mining University from Costa Rica gained his first professional experience at the KAMAZ plant in Naberezhnye Chelny.

”Nizhny Novgorod Archimedes”, as contemporaries called Ivan Kulibin, did not graduate from any university, which, however, did not prevent him from becoming a member and head of the mechanical workshop of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Russia. At a young age, the famous inventor, born in 1735, was trained in locksmithing, turning and watchmaking, but the main baggage of knowledge still received thanks to his curiosity, persistence and feverish desire to create. But how did he feel about the idea of the need for a classical education?

Alexander Fersman’s boisterous scientific activity, assertiveness and even his appearance were reflected in the nicknames he received from his colleagues. He was called ”ball lightning” and ”uncle elephant”. Students and admirers, wishing to demonstrate their involvement in his research, called themselves no other than ”Fersmanides” and ”Fersmanoids”.

In May 2023, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on improving the higher education system. This document initiated a reform designed to bring the training process to a qualitatively higher level and increase the number of competent engineers in the country, which is essential for the sustainable development of the national economy. The Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University became one of the six participants of the pilot project, which have already started to implement the initiative of the Russian President.

Among the most promising areas include cooperation in science and technology, as well as increasing academic mobility. On Friday, July 7, it became known that President of Imam Hussein University Mohammad Reza Hasani paid a working visit to the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University. During the meeting with Rector Vladimir Litvinenko, he told about the current research conducted by the scientists of the Iranian university and presented his vision of the prospects of cooperation between the two institutions of higher education.

The Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University under the International Triple Diploma Program hosted the defence of graduate qualification works by master’s degree students of domestic higher education institutions, members of the Nedra Consortium. This is a joint project of St. Petersburg University, Freiberg Mining Academy (Germany) and the University of Leoben (Austria).

The year 2023 marks the 130th anniversary of the birth of the legendary geologist Nikolai Urvantsev. For Siberians, this is a truly iconic figure, like Peter the Great for St. Petersburgers. Arctic explorer, founder of Norilsk and its first resident, ”official friend of the Norwegian government”, discoverer and pioneer, the results of whose expeditions formed the basis for the creation of the Norilsk Mining and Metallurgical Combine.

A young mining engineer at a meeting in the presence of Stalin, arguing the need to restructure the entire armor industry of the country, in a fervor went into a raised tone and repeatedly banged his fist on the table. How did his career develop after the epoch-making speech?